Matters of Life and Death
Turn up the strobe, we’re closing out Labor Day 2009 with 5 x nominated Female Country Vocalist, Tammy Wynette and KLF with her last hit: Ancient and Justified. This video also has a glimpse of the final flame at Burning Man. Enjoy.
Related: Found in the archives; this early ’70s snap of George and Tammy in Springfield, MO backstage at a Listener Appreciation Show sponsored by a local radio station.
So I finally got to see “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”. Loved it! Some might find it slow or dull, but the acting and cinematography is great. Brad portrayed Jesse James as the sociopath that he was, and Casey Afflek’s interpretation of Robert Ford is compelling.
Jesse was a cash cow not only for Robert Ford, but the whole state. Missouri is the cave state and so there are lots of hi-dee holes for the James gang.
Jesse’s mother, Zerelda, who lost a hand to firebomb during a Pinkerton raid, allowed tourists to view the grave of her son for 25 cents. She sold rocks from his grave and legend has it that when the rock supply ran low, she simply restocked from the river. She also gave paid tours of the farm shortly after Jesse’s death, a practice that was continued by Frank in later years.
As we do in this part of the country, Jesse married his first cousin, Zee after a nine-year courtship. They had two children, Jesse Edwards and Mary.
Zee James suffered from a deep depression after her husband’s death, became reclusive and continued to wear her widow’s weeds long after Jesse’s assassination. Zee died in 1900.
“Anybody that dies from gittin’ trampled to death at Wal-Mart is bound to want his money back on that. I know I would. That’s a bad way to go, there.” Eve Cleveland
Fred Miller, longtime KY3 weatherman passed away yesterday in his home, he was 86. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to know Fred well, he retired shortly after I arrived at KY3, but like many other Ozarkers, I grew up watching Fred and had the pleasure of hearing his co-workers speak in the highest regard for this man. He was loved by all who knew him.
Image courtesy of KY3.
