Now THAT is an apocryphal S@W story. Doc told us that story every time it rained and had a pretty serious ban on any roof activities if there was even a hint of a sprinkle of rain.
On 8/10/14, 5:55 AM, "Barker, Michael" <[email protected]> wrote: >It was raining like hell in Winedale the night Richard Nixon resigned. We >all sat on the floor of the general store across the street next to the >pool table listening to his speech. I was so elated by his resignation >that I ran out into the pouring rain, raced up onto the top of the barn >and, surrounded by thunder and lightning, slid down the roof of the barn >and broke my leg. I was rushed to the hospital in Brenham, played >Falstaff with a cane, and Doc did not talk to me for 3 days. That's what >I remember. >michael b > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Mike Godwin [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 08:45 PM >To: James Ayres <[email protected]> >Cc: Shakespeare Winedale ><[email protected]>; Shakespeare at >Winedale 1970-2000 alums <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Winedale-l] Nixon > >My guess is that awareness among the sumer '74 class of how things >were accelerating in late July and August of 1974 was perhaps pretty >dim. That year the class was six weeks long, if I remember the S-at-W >timeline correctly. In any case, the big events that led to >resignation were in the last week or so of July -- they included the >Supreme Court's decision that Nixon must release the tapes, followed >by the House's decision to proceed to impeachment . Woodward and >Bernstein, among many others, documented that Nixon quickly assessed >that the Senate would likely convict him on one or more of the >charges. (He even queried his allies whether it would be tenable to >stay on if he carried only 10 votes for acquittal in the Senate; his >allies indicated that this would not be a good idea.) > >In any case, they took place when the Summer '74 class was thinking >hardest about performances. > >Here's the timeline: >http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/08/how-the-watergate-crisis-e >roded-public-support-for-richard-nixon/ > >I can easily imagine that someone who was at Winedale in summer 1974 >may remember it differently, just because "there is no clock in the >forest." I know that I have a dim memory that the summer 2005 reunion >class somehow coincided with Hurricane Katrina, although checking the >calendar suggests to me that this was not true. So I too can testify >that Winedale for me has always been a place out of time. > >As it happens, your reporter participated in a Congressional staff >briefing yesterday in the Rayburn House Office Building, perhaps in >the same committee room where the vote to impeach President Nixon took >place. See attached photo. > > >--Mike > > > >On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:08 PM, James Ayres <[email protected]> wrote: >> Not your imagination, Jerald. This was a scheduled event that day. I >> checked it out with Marilyn to make sure she was tuning in. We took >>time >> out from work in the barn to watch and celebrate. The locals were as >> excited as we were. Cheering, yelling, applause. Lots of noise. >> >> Then we went back to work in the barn. Delighted, relieved. >> >> Doc >> >> >> >> On Aug 9, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Jerald Head wrote: >> >>> Today marks the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation. There was a >>> mention of this event in in a reminiscence in the Shakespeare >>>birthplace >>> stories while at Winedale. In that story the fellow student mentioned >>>he >>> knew nothing of the event until he talked to his family. I find my >>>memory >>> sometimes is what I choose to remember, but I recall going over to the >>>store >>> to watch the resignation speech, being forewarned to show respect by >>>Doc. I >>> remember going over to the store and watching the speech on Rollie and >>> Marilyn's television in the store. Or do I? Did we do this or is it >>>just my >>> imagination? >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>Groups >>> "Shakespeare at Winedale Email List" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>an >>> email to >>>[email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>Groups >> "Shakespeare at Winedale Email List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>an >> email to >>[email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >_______________________________________________ >Winedale-l mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/winedale-l ________________________________ UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today. _______________________________________________ Winedale-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/winedale-l
