Green Top Sporting Goods - Virginia

[Bill Murphy]

I lived in Virginia until I was three years old, so I guess I can't be accused of being a Yankee.

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

I lived in Virginia until I was three years old, so I guess I can't be accused of being a Yankee.

If none of your family lines was not a Virginian before the War of Northern Aggression, then I hate to break the news to you; Yankee. But not as bad as a scalawag. I am praying you are neither.

[Double Lab]

Jerry,
I may not come from the great state of VA but I do live south of the Mason/Dixon line and ever since childhood felt an afinity for the Confederacy.

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Jerry,
I may not come from the great state of VA but I do live south of the Mason/Dixon line and ever since childhood felt an afinity for the Confederacy.

We had New Yorkers that fought for the South in my multiple family trees’ lines and the church I attend has Brigadier General McComb, a Pennsylvanian who had moved to Tennessee before the war. The war mostly depended on where you lived rather than your political views.

This was just a joke before anybody gets their panties in a wad but I was unable to put a smiley face on it from my cell phone. My Gr Gr Gr Grandfather is buried at Pt. Lookout, MD, as pro Southern of a county as any. But all the food, blankets, clothing, and medical supplies brought to them never made it into the prison. Stolen. He died in March ‘65 of “dropsy,” otherwise starved to death.

Off track above, but I’ve never found but one bargain at Greentop. The rest you have to start really low on an offer and they usually refuse.

[Bill Murphy]

I lived for 45 years in a house that sported a view of Virginia from the upper deck. I have lived for 79 years south of the Mason-Dixon line, 76 of those years in the most liberal county in the United States. I'm not at all proud of that.

[MrBojangles]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

I lived for 45 years in a house that sported a view of Virginia from the upper deck. I have lived for 79 years south of the Mason-Dixon line, 76 of those years in the most liberal county in the United States. I'm not at all proud of that.

What county is that?

I resided in Virginia nearly 15 years and miss it.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Ian Civco

What county is that?

I resided in Virginia nearly 15 years and miss it.

I do believe if I was to move from the Old Dominion and still live in the USA , South Carolina might just be my first choice

[ArtS]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

We had New Yorkers that fought for the South in my multiple family trees’ lines and the church I attend has Brigadier General McComb, a Pennsylvanian who had moved to Tennessee before the war. The war mostly depended on where you lived rather than your political views.

This was just a joke before anybody gets their panties in a wad but I was unable to put a smiley face on it from my cell phone. My Gr Gr Gr Grandfather is buried at Pt. Lookout, MD, as pro Southern of a county as any. But all the food, blankets, clothing, and medical supplies brought to them never made it into the prison. Stolen. He died in March ‘65 of “dropsy,” otherwise starved to death.

Off track above, but I’ve never found but one bargain at Greentop. The rest you have to start really low on an offer and they usually refuse.

Just saw this. "Dropsy" is a term that for a couple of hundred years was used by folk medicine practitioners to denote congestive heart failure. I read a book in high school 60 years ago on common remedies that were used for centuries before modern drug manufacture caught up. It contained a chapter on Foxglove and detailed how the flower was used to treat the disease and the detailed titration that was required to keep from killing the patient. It amazed me at the time as to how really knowledgeable some of those people were. Later when I spent quite a bit of time in genealogy research I read a lot of death certificates and I was amazed at how many deaths were recorded by doctors as due to dropsy. I believe in Appalachia in the period around 1900 that any death in a rural area in which the doctor had no clue, it would be attributed to "the dropsy", the term commonly used by country people.