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hough we think of immersed in a new season. As ourselves as living most readers know, this writer in times of “havoc,” is my husband, so my love for we cannot really define the game can be no surprise! the word. It has so many No less riddled with different elements — in foreign “havoc” is owning a boat and engagement, in sports, in war, actually venturing out into in our families and even in the unknown waters. Renowned growing of grapes for wine. author and super storyteller Nothing is more emblematic Sonny Brewer shares a few of “havoc” as war and neglect. of his own adventures on the In this issue we have a glaring water — and sometimes, IN example of both. We can the water! Hard to imagine a experience the horrors of distinguished writer up to his survival through the Civil War knees in a leaky vessel, but battle of Vicksburg in Laura Sonny swears it’s true and he’s Photo by Beca Eiland Hunter’s raw imagining of a letter backed up by some longfrom a desperate woman trapped, suffering friends! literally under the guns. None of these earth-shaking dramas can The scars of war are often expressed through really compare with the tension between parent music, and as always, Mike Stedham gives us a and teenager! Brett Buckner, one of our favorite new look at perhaps the most famous of all war writers, and daughter Sarah Miller, (better music, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. You will known to Anniston Star readers of Brett’s column likely be surprised by the story of the writing as “The Diva”) engage in a discussion of the and performance of this thunderous piece which challenges — and rewards — of this relationship. The importance of history and culture is was heard in Anniston several times at Music fraught with “havoc.” Mary Eloise Leake takes at McClellan. I was thrilled to be able to “call us back to the tumultuous time in the ’60s the shots” to the cannon at the conclusion of a when the nation was shocked by assassinations. performance by the Alabama Symphony! From her report we learn that a visit to the From the brilliant cover photograph to the Newseum in suburban Washington, D.C., beautiful photographs and commentary in these will bring into renewed focus the Kennedy pages, indefatigable travelers Lesa and David assassination, thus giving an understanding to Cummings show us the ravages of centuries younger generations of an event that rocked the of war, destruction and neglect of ancient country in many ways. Cambodian temples. We can’t deny a sense of Finally, let us not neglect wine in our sadness looking at the ruins but their lonely thinking about “havoc.” And I don’t mean beauty is certainly compelling. the kind of havoc that sometimes results from Havoc is rampant in sports: hockey, for overconsumption! Pat Kettles will tell you of the example, is a brutal game — and probably most threat posed to wine growers by a tiny bug which of us think of hockey as an icy-climate sport! Who knew there is a thriving audience for hockey caused a BIG problem. Now we may look at the word “havoc” in just up the road in Huntsville? Budd McLaughlin, a more complete way — its manifestions are a writer new to Longleaf, introduces us to a everywhere — in things we love and in things we phenomenon in our own backyard. don’t like to think of. But I hope this issue gives Hockey may be brutal, but there’s not much us a broader view and understanding of “havoc” that occupies a Southerner’s sports interest more — in things amusing, shocking, and beautiful. than football. I have enlisted Brandt Ayers, No. 1 Alabama fan, to give us a flavor and some history of the game’s finer points as all fans become

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War by other means by H. Brandt Ayers Some of football’s best plays came from the battlefield

Huntsville Havoc

Assassination

Beauty and neglect

War music

Once in love, always in love

War of the ages

Winner of the prestigious President’s Award

by Budd McLaughlin Welcome to hockey night in Huntsville

Newseum exhibits document the havoc after JFK’s murder By Mary Eloise H. Leake

A photo essay of the ancient temples of Cambodia By David and Lesa Cummings

Classic compositions with close ties to the havoc of war By Mike Stedham

Adventures and mishaps that come with boating By Sonny Brewer

The clash of parents and teens By Brett Buckner and Sarah Miller Fall 2013

Tiny bug, big problem

Letters from Vicksburg

How microscopic aphids rocked the world of wine By Pat Kettles

Fiction by Laura Hunter

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beCurious Vicksburg 1863 by Winston Groom This is a meticulous history of the epic battle of Vicksburg — the culmination of a two-year struggle which claimed hundreds of lives and devastated the entire region. Winston Groom is a stellar war historian whose prose is both detailed and riveting. He is the author of more than a dozen books, many of them Civil War histories. Also by Winston Groom

The Crimson Tide: The Official Illustrated History of Alabama Football, National Championship Edition by Winston Groom (Author, Allen Barra Foreword), Jeremiah Castille (Contributor) Quite a departure from Grooms’ string of Civil War books, here is a must for an Alabama fan — or any football fan, for that matter! It contains the best action photos to be found and lucid text which avoids being over-enthusiastic. Groom’s partner in crime for this book was Jeremiah Castille, former Alabama running back. Who better to collaborate with on a history project of this nature?

Official Newseum Guidebook This is a comprehensive guide to the unique interactive exhibit at the Newseum, located in what has become a Museum complex in Washington. Nearby are the National Gallery, the Smithsonian, the Air and Space Museum — enough to occupy an entire week’s vacation! As Mary Eloise Leake’s article in this issue points out, a visit to the Newseum is an unusual experience which will be enhanced by this helpful guide. Available on the Newseum’s website.

Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind and Yes, Your Parents are Crazy!: A Teen Survival Guide by Michael J. Bradley Sounds like these contain useful and funny commentary and advice about issues all families face. But they do seem a bit lengthy, so perhaps choosing the relevant chapters would be the best course. Or, you can just look for the views of parent Brett Buckner and teen daughter Sarah Miller, conveniently located in this issue!

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Festival Overture, Capriccio Italien / Beethoven: Wellington’s Victory Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Antal Dorati (Conductor), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Deems Taylor (Performer) When you read Mike Stedham’s excellent article “War Music” elsewhere in this magazine, you will want to order this stirring recording, as I did. This is a feast of practically over-the-top martial music which will make you want to march around the house, if not go to war!

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War

by other means By H. Brandt Ayers

photos by Steve Gross

Wishbone

our thousand pounds of offensive and defensive linemen crash against each other, a muddle of muscle and will and suddenly ... an opening appears and the quarterback is visible as if he were in a display window. The linebacker’s thigh muscles clench as he sprints toward his quarry — only to be knocked silly by a 300-pound pulling tackle, and the quarterback completes a crossing pattern to the very spot the linebacker vacated. Mayhem rules when the expected is suddenly scrambled and a soldier or football player is disoriented by the unexpected, loses his sense of direction and falls prey to an onrushing enemy.

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In his famous essay, William James said that any moral equivalent to war should inculcate strong values: “Martial virtues must be the enduring cement; intrepidity, contempt of softness, surrender of private interest, obedience to command, must still remain the rock upon which states are built … ” He might as well have said it directly: Football is the moral equivalent of war. The primary color of both war and football is red — the color of intense emotion. John Keegan, the British military historian, came close to defining the spiritual force that moves men in sport as in war in this eloquent passage: “Warfare … reaches into the

most secret places of the human heart, places where self dissolves rational purpose, where pride reigns, where emotion is paramount, where instinct is king.” Comparisons between football and actual combat ring true; for instance, the linebacker who thought he had a clear shot at the quarterback was fooled by a play invented in 216 BC by the great Carthaginian general, Hannibal — the “draw” or “trap.” It was at the ancient Roman town of Cannae that the classic football sucker-play was invented. Sixteen Roman legions attacked the outnumbered Carthaginian. Hannibal stood with his men in the weak center

Hannibal’s Trap Play

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and held them to a controlled retreat. Knowing the superiority of the Roman infantry, Hannibal had instructed his own infantry to withdraw. The Roman infantry drove deeper and deeper into the Carthaginian semicircle, forcing itself into an alley. At this decisive point, Hannibal ordered his African infantry waiting on the wings to turn inward and advance against the Roman flanks, encircling the Roman infantry. For the superior Roman force it was … HAVOC. The legions’ anticipation of easy victory had suddenly become attacks from all sides. There was a cacophony of metal on metal, the soundless slice of sword upon flesh, the grunt of fatal sword thrusts, dust rose above the screams of encircling infantry, Roman discipline evaporated in a whirl of attacks that came from every direction. The Roman legions were eliminated as a fighting force.

Havoc can come in many forms: an irrationally heroic soldier or an exceptionally gifted athlete. In 1970, Coach John McKay brought his integrated USC team to face one of Bear Bryant’s typically strong defenses. USC’s black halfback Sam “the Bam” Cunningham played havoc with the Bama team, running for 135 yards, scoring twice in a 42 to 21 rout of the Tide. The loss helped create a climate favorable to integration of Southern teams, which Bryant had already done in recruiting red shirt freshman Wilbur Jackson. To open the 1971 season the Bear installed an offense the Trojans had never seen, the triple option Wishbone. The quarterback might hand off to the fullback, pitch out to a trailing halfback, keep the ball himself or pass. The formation played mayhem with the USC defense. The system worked perfectly in capping an opening 59-yard drive.

Quarterback Terry Davis faked to the diving fullback and pitched out to Johnny “Italian Stallion” Musso, who dived in for the score. Musso scored twice in a 17-10 upset.

Charge of the Light Brigade Generals who order attacks without clearly seeing the battlefield court disaster as surely as a coach who sent his team to face a superior foe without looking at any films of the opponent. Take the Battle of Balaclava in 1854 during the Crimean War — popularly known as “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” Lord Raglan, overall commander of English forces, ordered a cavalry charge against what he thought were retreating Russian artillery. But since the obtuse general was so distant from the battlefield, he mistakenly thought the Russian guns were retreating. The Light Brigade was sent into a

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Charge of the light cavalry brigade, 25th Oct. 1854, under Major General the Earl of Cardigan

valley whose hills on all sides were spiked with Russian cannon and riflemen. The senior cavalry commander, Lieutenant General the Earl of Lucan, who could see the battlefield clearly, gave Raglanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s order to the commander of the Light Brigade, Major General the Earl of Cardigan, his brother-in-law who was bound to him in mutual hatred for decades. Despite his feelings for his brother-in-law, true to military discipline, Cardigan obeyed, leading his lightly saber-armed cavalry directly into the Russian cannon â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a charnel house of butchery. He then led the decimated few in retreat as the Russians continued to pour down shells. Having done all he could that day, with the nonchalance of a British gentleman going to his club, the general retired to his yacht for a champagne dinner. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, then the poet laureate of the United Kingdom, dashed off what became an immortal poem, which was published in a popular newspaper. Among the most quoted lines are these:

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the gunsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Forward, the Light Brigade!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Was there a man dismayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d? Not thoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the soldiers knew Some one had blunderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Deathâ&#x20AC;¨ Rode the six hundred. It may appear incongruous to compare football to the heart-breaking blunder in the Crimea, but stupidity is stupidity on any scale, and the superior generalship of Hannibal is still taught by every high school and college coach to this day. Havoc awaits all who rush willy-nilly toward their objective without care and planning or those who are blindsided by a weapon they had not seen before. On Nov. 1, 1913, a heavily favored Army team must have felt they were recreating the charge of the Light Brigade when Coach Jesse

Harper of Notre Dame unleashed a secret weapon on the West Point cadets. The story actually begins on an Ohio beach where a Norwegian immigrant and Notre Dame left end named Knute Rockne was life guard. He and his roommate, All-American Gus Dorais spent the summer perfecting a forward pass tandem. In the past, Army had frustrated Coach Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running attack by crowding the line of scrimmage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a perfect defense to be exploited by the newly minted passing tandem of Dorais to Rockne. Dorai was 12 of 14 for 243 yards and a confused Army was embarrassed 35 to 14. In war or football or business, surprise can be an enemy, but martial courage, persistence and planning can win a victory, and winning is such a glorious thing. Brandt Ayers is Chairman and Publisher of The Anniston Star and the author of the recently released memoir â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Love With Defeat.â&#x20AC;? Prior to the battle between Alabama and Notre Dame, he wrote the eBook, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 2013 BCS National Championship.â&#x20AC;? Both are published by NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama.

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The lights in Huntsville’s Von Braun Center’s Propst Arena go dark. Pounding music blares from the speakers. Spotlights fan across the seats filled with the Huntsville Havoc faithful decked out in the team’s colors of red and black. Giant video screens at each end urge the crowd to make noise. In one corner down on the ice, a giant, blow-up head of a wolf-like creature spews “smoke” from its mouth as the Havoc players skate out to rousing cheers. Welcome to Hockey Night in Huntsville. There is plenty of activity during the game — fast-skating, hard-hitting, goal-scoring and, of course, fighting. Huntsville has had its share of big scorers as well as its share of big hitters — both styles combine to thrill the fans. Between periods, there are competitions on the ice featuring youngsters sitting on disks being propelled by a giant slingshot across the ice into giant foam bowling pins. Bigger kids compete by taking slapshots from center ice into the net with prizes ranging from pizza coupons to jerseys to sticks. During breaks in the play, the Havoc’s “Wolf Pack” skates onto the ice and tosses T-shirts into the seats. But back to the ice, because, after all, that’s what the fans paid for. Hockey is the best team sport to watch live. And Havoc games are no exception. The speed is breathtaking. The athleticism of the players is eye-opening. The players, on skates with ¼-inch wide blades, move up the down the ice at high speeds, keeping the puck on the stick while avoiding getting hit by opposing players. If a player doesn’t have the puck, he’s looking for a pass from the teammate with the hope of putting the puck past the goaltender. Then, there’s the goaltender. He’s the last line of defense and is possibly the best skater and athlete on the team — even though he’s not known for his skating. His main job is to stop the 5 1/2-ounce rubber puck which can come at him at speeds approaching 100 mph. And the goalie does this while opposing players are standing or skating in front of him, trying to keep him from seeing the puck. He does have some help — in the form of his defensemen whose job is to keep the opposing players away from the goalie and to keep them from getting shots on goal.

Huntsville

Havoc

Welcome to Hockey Night in Huntsville. By Budd McLaughlin

• The Huntsville Havoc is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year as a professional ice hockey franchise. While it has been around awhile, it’s not the Rocket City’s lone tie with the sport more linked more to Up North than Down South. In 1987, Huntsville was proclaimed “Hockey Capital of the South” by then-Gov. George Wallace due to the success of the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s hockey team. The Chargers had a club team from 1979-1985 and went varsity in 1985. The Chargers won NCAA Division II national championships in 1996 and 1998 and were in the NCAA Division I National Championship Sweet 16 in 2007 and 2010. This year, the Chargers begin play in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association after a couple of seasons as an independent team. While the Havoc is celebrating its 10-year history, Birmingham was the first city to have a pro hockey team. Birmingham had teams from 1976-1981, 1982-83 and 1992-2001 and Mobile had a team from 1995-2002. Huntsville has had several pro hockey teams since 1993. The Havoc began playing in 2004 in the Southern Professional Hockey League. • The University of Alabama has had a club hockey team — the Frozen Tide — since 2005. Auburn had an ice hockey team from 1980-84 and restarted the club program in 2010. They are both “club” teams, meaning they are not NCAA sanctioned and the University doesn’t sponsor them. They may receive some money from the universities but mostly the players have to pay for equipment, travel, etc., and raise money to help cut those costs. The teams play/ practice in Pelham and Columbus, Ga. • Jared Ross of Huntsville, who played at UAH 2001-05, was the first — and only — Alabama native to play in the National Hockey League. He was with the Philadelphia Flyers in 2008-10. He now plays professionally in Germany. Two other former UAH players (though not from Alabama), Scott Munroe and Cameron Talbot, have signed NHL contracts; Munroe with the Flyers and Talbot with the New York Rangers. Sebastian Geoffrion, who finished his career at UAH this year, took part in the Nashville Predators’ development camp in July.

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The defensemen can be big, bruising players as well as “finesse” players who can steal pucks and head to the other end of the ice. This year marks the 10th anniversary for the Havoc, the state’s lone professional hockey team. It is minor league hockey with a southern flair, the latest in the more than 20-year history of professional hockey in the Rocket City. The city has won championships in various leagues with different franchises — from the Blast to the Channel Cats to the Tornado to another Channel Cats team to the Havoc. Huntsville has championships in the Southern Hockey League, Central Hockey League, South East Hockey League and the Southern Professional Hockey League, of which the Havoc is a founding member. The Havoc came about in 2004 to help whet Huntsville’s hockey appetite, which dates back to the early 1960s and took off when the University of Alabama in Huntsville began its hockey program in 1979. UAH has won national championships at the club and NCAA level and is a new member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. In 1987, then-Gov. George Wallace proclaimed Huntsville “Hockey Capital of the South” due to the success of UAH. In fact, Huntsville is the only North American city that can lay claim to having an NCAA hockey champion and professional hockey champion in the same year — 1998. The Chargers won the NCAA Division II national championship and the Channel Cats won the CHL crown. Another tip of the hat to Huntsville’s hockey heritage came in 1998, when the Nashville Predators made their NHL debut with an exhibition game in the Rocket City, not the Music City. After the Tornado folded in 2001, there was a two-year absence of pro hockey but a new Channel Cats team was founded to fill that void in 2003. It lasted just one year in an ill-fated four-team South East Hockey League. Then, owner Keith Jeffries was behind a new league — the Southern Professional Hockey League — and the Havoc came into being. Jeffries said he wanted to bring back the Huntsville style of inyour-face hockey; where the Huntsville players don’t take kindly to their opponents. It’s a physical style of hockey, the kind that fans grew accustomed to seeing in the original Channel Cats of the late 1990s. To Jeffries’ credit, the formula has proven to be a success as the fans have been showing up at an average of about 3,000 per game. The Havoc style resulted in a SPHL President’s Cup championship in the 2010-11 season and, this past season, a surprisingly strong playoff run before a loss in the finals to Pensacola. This is the beginning of the Havoc’s second decade and team members, as usual, won’t be satisfied unless they bring back the cup. And, in a couple of months, the lights will darken; the speakers will thunder; fans will be roaring and smoke will fill the arena. Welcome back to Hockey Night in Huntsville.

A brief guide to ice hockey • The rink — a 200-foot by 85-foot rectangle with rounded corners — is divided lengthwise into three zones by a red line at center ice and two blue lines on either side. • The puck is 1 inch thick, 3 inches in diameter and weighs between 5 1/2 and 6 ounces. It is made of black, vulcanized rubber. • Each team has six players on the ice: one goaltender, two defensemen and three forwards. All players except the goaltender can go anywhere on the ice; the goaltender cannot cross the center red line. • The game is 60 minutes long with three 20-minute periods. • The faceoff is used to resume play following any stoppage and to start each period. The referee drops the puck between a player from each team at one of nine designated faceoff spots, depending on where the play was stopped. • Goals can only be scored with a stick. If a player knocks a puck in the net with his foot (in a kicking motion) or glove, there is no goal. • A player can use a shoulder, hip or body to hit or impede an opponent, but only when the opponent has the puck. This is called body checking. • Players are penalized for hitting, kicking and placing themselves or the stick to impede an opponent’s motion. Despite the violent appearance of such actions, the penalty for minor infractions is only two minutes off the ice while a major infraction carries a five-minute penalty for the offending player. Major penalties include fighting and incidents where the referee deems a player was seriously injured or there was an attempt to injure. This can also result in an ejection.

Huntsville freelance writer Budd McLaughlin is from New Jersey, but he’s a good guy anyway since he’s an Auburn grad.

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ASSASSINATION Newseum exhibits document the havoc after JFK’s murder By Mary Eloise H. Leake

Photos courtesy of The Newseum

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

n Nov. 22, 1963, a marathon began: Accounts of the Kennedy assassination, which became the first example of modern media coverage. Along with my classmates at Columbia College, a women’s institution in Columbia, S.C., I heard the news that the president had been shot while I was in class. Immediately we all went to the TV room that our freshman dorm shared with a dorm of upperclassmen. For the next four days, that room was packed as we watched the chaos that ravaged our nation. On the small screen we viewed the parade in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie — in an open convertible — turned into Dealey Plaza. We spotted his sudden collapse. We joined the vigil outside Parkland Memorial Hospital. We wept as Walter Cronkite struggled to announce Kennedy’s death. We followed the conflicting search for the assassin(s) and Lee Harvey Oswald’s capture. We observed a grim Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as president. We gasped when Jack Ruby shot Oswald as the police were moving him to a more secure place. Later we accompanied Kennedy’s funeral procession and glimpsed John Jr. — on his third birthday — salute his father’s casket. Only 15 weeks after the couple buried their infant son, Patrick, we saw Jackie light the eternal flame at her husband’s grave at Arlington Cemetery. All in the space of four days — almost around the clock. Jonathan Thompson, public relations manager of the Newseum, says that type of intense wall-to-wall broadcast did not happen again until the 9/11 terrorist attack. The Newseum, which moved into its current headquarters in Washington, D.C., five years ago, salutes five

centuries of news history with up-tothe-nano-second technology, significant artifacts and interactive exhibits. One of the capital’s media hotspots, its mission is to support the five freedoms of the First Amendment. The Newseum is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination by showcasing two compelling exhibits and an extraordinary 16-minute documentary film. The exhibit “JFK: Creating Camelot” presents more than 70 newly restored pictures — public and private — taken by Kennedy’s personal photographer, Jacques Lowe. Featuring the charismatic youthful president, Jackie and their children, Caroline and John Jr., these images provide insight into his presidency and disclose the unscripted side of their White House lives. Most have not been on view before. Ironically, Lowe’s 40,000 Kennedy negatives were stored in the World Trade Center and were destroyed on

9/11. His contact sheets were in another studio, and they enabled restorers to painstakingly rescue some of the visual legacy. Augmented by excerpts from radio, TV, newspapers and the Zapruder home movie, “JFK: Three Shots Were Fired,” the exhibits display some never-before-seen artifacts on loan from the National Archives, such as: The gun of Clint Hill, the first Secret Service agent to jump onto the presidential limo, and the longsleeve brown shirt Lee Harvey Oswald was wearing when he was arrested plus his wallet and ID Cards and family photos. Also included is the Zapruder 8mm movie camera that captured the definitive 26 seconds seared into the nation’s collective memory. On the Newseum’s panoramic 100-foot-wide screen, “JFK: A Thousand Days,” an original documentary film, chronicles the appeal of the man, his early life and his presidency’s

Jaques Lowe photos displayed at the Newseum.

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significant moments via TV footage and interviews. While the establishment of the Peace Corps and the start of the space race were crowd pleasers, Kennedy faced many challenges such as the Bay of Pigs, the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, George Wallace’s stand in the door at the University of Alabama, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Caught up in the shocking murder of a bright and vigorous president, I was young and idealistic. But to my parents’ generation, Kennedy was controversial. He had detractors in every corner of the United States, and many lived in the South. Angry, they blamed his stand on civil rights as causing the demise of a way of life. And amid the tentacles of Cold War and Vietnam War issues, others found his foreign policy appalling. While the assassination devastated the entire country, some Americans grieved the national blow more than the death of the man. The multiplicity of assassination conspiracy theories still rampant 50 years later speaks to the diversity of organizations and/or people who were said to want Kennedy out of office: the KGB, the Mafia, Fidel Castro, anti-Castro groups, Israelis, Vietnam War proponents, the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service, U.S. military-industrial complex, Federal Reserve Bank, John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, New Orleans’ consortium, and yes, even UFOs ... The Newseum’s trio of historic exhibits about the iconic 35th president, the first true TV politician, will remain on display at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (across the street from the National Gallery of Art) through Jan. 5, 2014.

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Beauty and Neglect:

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he ruined temples of Cambodia are unique in the world. More than 100 temples and temple cities from the ninth to the 14th centuries have been discovered in the Cambodian jungle, most in ruin and disrepair. When French explorers found some of them in the 19th century, no one knew they were there and local people were just as surprised as anybody. Few written records survive, and very little is known about the great Khmer civilization that created these cities. During the 12th century, 30,000 people lived in Paris and the wealth of that society created great churches such as Notre Dame Cathedral. At the same time, one million people lived in Angkor Thom — literally “Great City” — and created a stone temple city that was several times larger. Throughout history, the greatest achievements of architecture and decoration have been in the sacred places of reverence and worship. The temples of Egypt, the mosques of Istanbul, the Orthodox cathedrals of Russia, and the Gothic churches of Western Europe are maintained by present-day societies that realize their value. In recent years it has become more difficult to experience these places in a pristine state. Guardrails and ramps have been installed at Bhuddist temples in China, and Egyptian temples are roped off and you can just look in, not walk around. Recently, photography has come to be expressly prohibited in many of these places. Cambodia is different. You can still actually “be there.” It is one of the few places that has been unable to maintain its sacred heritage, and the effect is an amazing mix of fallen stone, encroaching jungle and ruined glory. Travelers can walk on the very stones that fell 500 years ago. If you go in the early morning, it is possible to set up and take photos that make the site look like it has any time in the last five centuries. Decay and havoc rule. Of course, different photographers produce greatly different work here. It is fascinating to see these great ruined temples through the eyes of people who have different aesthetic sensibilities and visual vocabularies. David sees these temples in the context of the great places of worship worldwide. He tries to do work that mirrors the classic interior shots of the Gothic Cathedrals of Europe. His work shows the darkness-into-light architectural views that express the sancity of such places worldwide. Lesa sees the temples with an eye for the human and aesthetic details that are common to her travel images everywhere. Her work is a fresh, “Hey, look at that!” version of Cambodia that transcends the common snapshot style that pervades modern travel work.

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David — Temple of Shiva in the north quadrant of Preah Khan. In no other society can you spend a quiet hour on holy stones that fell centuries ago.

David — Ta Prohm. This view reminds me of the view down the nave in a European cathedral. The trees are the tall columns and the fallen arcade roof is where the nave aisle defines the side of the building. Note the constuction of the roof that still stands. This ‘corbeled vaulting’ fell under its own weight and did not last as long as the more advanced gothic keystoned vaulting being employed in Europe at the same time. That is why the European cathedrals still stand, unlike the Cambodian temples.

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David — Leper King Terrace at Angkor Thom. This is a statuary wall at the base of a crematory mound on the Royal Terrace. These statues were carved in the same century as the statuary in some Gothic Cathedrals of Europe. They are more primitive in style but the effect is just as striking. 2013 Fall Longleaf Style 25

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Lesa — Tourists line up for a picture of the most photographed tree in the world at Ta Prohm. The Archeological Survey of India is working to restore the Hall of Dancers and secure the temple for the future.

Lesa — Macaques visit the temples in late afternoon foraging for food. This mother and baby are in front of Bayon Temple in Angkor Thom. 30 Longleaf Style Fall 2013

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WAR MUSIC By Mike Stedham

At first glance, music and warfare seem to be at opposite ends of the havoc spectrum. Music is the attempt to bring pleasing melodic order out of sonic chaos, while war brings death and destruction to disrupt the social order.

t turns out that these two seemingly unrelated human endeavors actually have a long history together. Anthropologists speculate that one of the first uses of a musical instrument — the animalhorn trumpet — may have been to frighten enemies in primitive battles. Some early African tribes were known to use drums during their fights with other tribes. In Biblical times, trumpets were the unlikely weapons of mass destruction at the Battle of Jericho, and the Book of Numbers instructs Hebrew warriors on how to use horns to sound military alarms. As armies became more sophisticated and developed ever more intricate battle plans, drums and horns were used to give soldiers audible cues during combat. Drum and bugle corps were an integral part of the military through the early part of the 20th century, when the noise of tanks and mortars drowned out the instruments. Even though music has pretty much left the battlefield, the sound of war remains prominent in classical compositions. Tastes have evolved over the decades, and the composers’ attitudes toward war have dictated the nature of that music. There is plenty of popular music that celebrates the

military and its victories. John Philip Sousa was the master of stirring marches that stoke the bellicose fires of the heart. His music sounds especially at home with wind ensembles and the traditional marching bands for whom they were composed. “Serious” composers also tackled war themes, and they created music that sometimes celebrates military victories and sometimes attempts to recreate the sounds of the battlefield in the concert hall. Three pieces of music with close ties to the havoc of war remain concert favorites, especially during outdoor concerts with patriotic themes. What would the Fourth of July be, after all, without music — and cannons? A consistently favorite piece of military music is Beethoven’s “Battle Symphony,” formally known as Wellington’s Victory, Op. 91. It was written to commemorate the duke’s defeat of Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon’s big brother) at the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813. Wellington was British and his troops included Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, while Beethoven was Austrian, but this was evidently one of those “enemy of my enemy” things. Beethoven had a special animus toward Napoleon anyway, and he premiered the work at a benefit concert for wounded

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German and Austrian soldiers. The Battle Symphony score is a great example of a composer using the resources of an orchestra to try and mimic some of the sounds of warfare. The orchestra is divided into two sides, with the English army being represented by the tunes â&#x20AC;&#x153;God Save The Queenâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rule Britanniaâ&#x20AC;? while the French are stuck with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marlborough Has Gone To The War.â&#x20AC;? That last song, by the way, is better known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;For Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Jolly Good Fellow,â&#x20AC;? making the French army sound as inept as its soldiers have proven to be in battle.The piece does a fine job of dramatizing the battle, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wellingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Victoryâ&#x20AC;? was a real crowd-pleaser in its day. Scholars turn

up their noses at it today, declaring it one of Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minor works, but in the hands of a great conductor and orchestra, it still sounds good. Another Romantic composition that was designed to imitate the sounds of war is Hunnenschlacht (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Battle of the Hunsâ&#x20AC;?) written in 1857 by Franz Liszt. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a symphonic poem that features special instructions in the score to make the battlefield experience more authentic. The composition was inspired by a painting of the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields in 451 A.D. that pitted Attila the Hun against the Roman army. The battle was famous for its ferocity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; legend has it that the souls of the soldiers killed in the battle continued

to fight each other as they rose through the sky to the Pearly Gates. Liszt, known for his dramatic music, plays up this drama for all itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth during the 15-minute work. He pulls out all the orchestral stops, and he even pulls out all of the organ stops in the final part of the piece. The triumphant ending is aided by a brass band playing off-stage. While both the Beethoven and Liszt pieces continue to be performed regularly, the top gun of all military music has to be the 1812 Overture by Peter Tchaikovsky. First, a few myth busters: It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t written in 1812. Tchaikovsky didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it. The wrong national anthems are used in the score.

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The composer probably never heard it played with cannon. Officially known as The Year 1812 Festival Overture, Op. 49, it was composed in 1880 to be used at the dedication of a Moscow cathedral that was commissioned in 1812 to celebrate defeat of Napoleon. Tchaikovsky arranged for cannon to be fired during the climax, and carillons throughout the capital city were to ring out at the appropriate time. Those plans never came through since the czar who was to have presided at the dedication had the bad fortune to be assassinated before it could take place. That cast a pall over the whole thing, and the premiere of the overture took place

indoors without the ordnance. As for the composer’s opinion of his work, he actually said that he wrote it “without love and without warmth.” (Artists, by the way, are not always the best judges of their own work.) The most recognizable tune in the work is the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” but it turns out that Napoleon didn’t like that tune and had it banned in 1805. Even worse, the Russian national anthem Tchaikovsky quotes from hadn’t even been written in 1812. So give him a D in historical accuracy, but an A in composition. Despite the failure of the first performance to live up to expectations,

Tchaikovsky did live to see the piece gain prominence. He even conducted the work (again without cannon) at the opening of New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1891. Since the composer’s death, the 1812 Overture has been one of his most often-performed works — with or without cannon — and over the decades it generated lots of revenue for his heirs. So you could say Tchaikovsky got a lot of bucks for his bang. Mike Stedham, a scholar of music, was often seen at performances of the 1812 Overture by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra at Music at McClellan. He is a professor of journalism at JSU.

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It was a little boat. So it was a little disaster. But I was little, too, and it seemed to my eightyear-old eyes that my whole world had just gone down like the Titanic. I looked over my shoulder at my grandfather, Mama’s daddy, that we kids called Paw. This was Lamar County in 1957. If Paw had been like most other men he might have doubled over laughing at my tiny tragedy. But in his eyes there was some of the defeat I felt. He shook his head. “I ‘spect you’ll just have to try again. I might help you if you want me to, but I don’t know much about boats.” Paw was a foreman down at the Westinghouse plant in Reform, an electrician on his day job. Another forty, fifty hours a week he raised black and white Yorkshire pigs. Farmed all the corn it took to feed them, all the hay his few cows and horses ate, all the good pole beans and tomatoes and okra and purple hull peas and garden stuff it took to feed his family. Course we all helped him in the garden. I reckon he thought it was fair to help me build my boat better. Like, so it would float.

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The boat was made from a wooden apple crate Paw’d given me, and launched in the widest and deepest part of the ditch that ran between his farm and his brother’s farm, had sunk like the big rocks I chunked into the Luxapalila Creek a mile back of his house. A short description of the long work I’d done building that first boat is that I busted up a second crate and used the slats from it to cover the wide cracks. When smart-alecky Uncle Giz smirked and predicted she’d pass water like a new crawdad seine, I said not when I was done with it. So Uncle Giz wouldn’t have the last laugh, I went out onto Highway 96 on a hot July day with a dry soup can and a tablespoon pilfered from my grandmother’s kitchen drawer, and I gleaned melted tar from little puddles on the asphalt. There weren’t many cars to dodge on that road and I was able to get most of a can full of tar in a quarter mile or so of duck-walking and scraping. The hardest part was getting the tar to turn loose of the spoon and drop into the can. But, alas, no amount of tarring the clumsy seams in my apple crate boat could have floated it. When I stepped from the knee-deep water over its side and shifted my weight there, the bottom broke through. I’m glad Uncle Giz didn’t come to my launch and christening. Paw’s offer to help me became, in due course, the loan of his gray-and-red Ford tractor to drag my knocked-together raft of green sweet gum poles and two-by-sixes down to the banks of the Luxapalila. He helped me with the lashing for towing, but stayed home. Told me to be careful, to mind the boggy ground and

not get his tractor stuck in the lower field, and let him “know how she goes.” Even this farmer knew enough of a boat’s fickle ways to call it a she. It was a brief report. She didn’t make it to the water. When I was almost to the creek I got a little careless. I might have been whistling a sailor’s tune, I guess, when I snagged a tree with the corner of my raft. Before I could snatch the throttle back, my Huck Finn dream was a nightmare of rope and boards and saplings strung out behind me. But I was blind in love with boats. Turns out, more than fifty years later, I hear an echo of Uncle Giz’s suspicion about boats. Now I wonder will they float or sink every time I head out in one. But still I won’t leave them be. I should have taken one look at the loose boards of the sad old 1942 Chris Craft cabin cruiser, listened to the 60-cycle hum of the five bilge pumps keeping her afloat, took note of her name, Red Witch II, and run from the dock toward high ground. But when the seller said he’d take a thousand dollars for the boat, I felt like those folks who cheated the Indians out of Manhattan Island for the price of a hotdog. Then I began to wonder who cheated who after a quick thousand hours or so of work. Finally, I got her refurbished and watertight and my wife Diana and I moved aboard her. With a name change to the Cana, we lived on the boat for the first year of our marriage. She still complains about getting life jackets instead of silver for wedding presents. Mostly, life aboard the Cana was not fun. Because it was a small, damp and rocking space. Because our showers

had to be brief. Because we dropped good stuff over the side and it was lost forever — including a rented VHS tape of a movie called “A Fish Named Wanda” that I had to pay for at three or four times what it was worth. Because there was no place for newlyweds to sulk in private. And also because the boat tried to drown some totally innocent people and us. Fourth of July, fried chicken, cold beer, good friends. Sounds like stuff for a Buffet song. But one of our guests took a look around the boat and asked, “Is there supposed to be water, like a lot of water, on the floor up in the front of the boat?” No, no, no! Not in the middle of Mobile Bay. Some on shore who saw us limping into the marina said the Cana’s bucket brigade was throwing so much water in the air we looked like a harbor fire tug in full spray. Diana and I got rid of the boat but kept each other. We’ve had other boats. We have a sailboat now. But the best boats belong to other people. And early this summer, Diana and I and Mac and Gina Walcott and Paul and Laura Parker enjoyed a beautiful sunset cruise on Fish River. We had just returned Mac’s boat to its lift, had hoisted the African King to its resting position, had walked across the dock and turned our attention to the picnic table of delicious snacks and beverages, when Diana asked, innocently enough, “Is that smoke coming from inside the boat?” There was, indeed, smoke coming from inside the boat. And where there was smoke, there was a little fire from a shorted-out bilge pump.

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Partners with 86 Years of Experience Within less than a foot of a rubber gas line. When Mac and I jumped into the boat to heroically save lives and property, our combined weight tilted the African King and caused it to plummet from its hoist six feet to the water. The stern went down hard as it fell and the boat submarined when it smacked the green water. The boat wanted to slide 15 feet down to the muddy bottom of the river. That’s how gravity works. And worked fast since the drain plug had been properly removed when we stowed the vessel in her hoist. I will note here with poetic irony that the bilge pump erupting into flames was a piece of equipment designed to prevent a boat’s sinking. I will note, too, that I performed an athletic leap from the boat to the dock as she fell that Paul still speaks of with reverence and deep awe. I did not abandon the rescue effort. As the boat drifted away, I took up screaming at three men in a passing boat to stop and quickly tow the sinking vessel back to the dock. So we could help poor Mac. I flailed my arms in the tradition of ancient seamen. Laura, who is a preacher, might have prayed. I didn’t ask. Gina probably did, too, that she’d not become a widow in the deal. I figure Diana wished I’d do something more manly. Water flooding over the stern from the fall had at least extinguished the fire, so we onlookers did not run away at top speed from a possible explosion and Mac’s troubles out in the middle of the river. He was upended with his finger in the drain hole. From where we stood, he looked to be OK. And he was. All was well in the end. That’s mostly what sailors and boaters do: We survive moments of churning chaos and white-eyed terror to enjoy other moments of heavenly calm and spiritual bliss. Problem is, seafarers soon learn their audiences listen more intently to breathless tales of storms and mammoth, killing waves. Sleepy pastoral missives of brilliant sunsets and seagulls

on the wing put us to sleep. So we love to say, “Man, you won’t believe — there was this time when I thought we were goners, for sure!” Do you catch my drift that boats are sometimes a bother? Matter of fact, lots of fun stuff is a bother, truth be told. I guess one could ask, “Do we have to have fun?” If I had the space and time, I could tell you the truth of so many other near-disasters that you would marvel and wonder how it is that I yet live to speak of the adventures. But that’s it. Boats are adventure. They give us stories to tell. They make men of men and carry the names of women because boats are also buoyed by romance. They are form curved with the possibility of function that is magical. Boats can take our imagination to exotic ports across water’s deep blue lifts and swells. It’s true what Rat said about boats to Mole in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. “In or out of ’em it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether

you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you’d much better not.” The time may be gone by of country boys working days in their grandfather’s pastures and fields and coming up with notions of apple crate boats in nights on feather beds. And maybe wooden boxes and tar won’t make a boat to float a little boy. But there’s no chance, none at all, that we’ll tie ourselves up with fears our boats might leak. Maybe, just maybe … is plenty strong enough to head out toward a horizon across a sea that’s deep and wide. And over our shoulder, the Uncle Gizs back there on the dock watch our little boat go, and I expect they secretly wish they’d set sail with us. Sonny Brewer is the author of more than a dozen books, including the novels “The Poet of Tolstoy Park” and “The Widow and the Tree,” both of which have been featured in Longleaf. He and his wife Diana live in Fairhope where they can enjoy the water every day.

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War of the ages

The clash of parents and teens

From the parent... by Brett Buckner

taring over the ripped-up pieces of notebook paper spilling across the kitchen table, I needed only to listen to the voice inside my head — otherwise known as my conscience — screaming at me to stop, to know what I was doing was a bad idea. And I didn’t care. The past few months had been a nightmare, and my wife and I were desperate. So I taped together a note I found buried in my daughter’s trash can — hating myself for doing it and enraged at being forced to spy on my daughter. That was three years ago, and while I don’t remember what became of the note or if it amounted to anything, I do remember that feeling. Being a parent is about living with regret — regret for things you did or said; and regret for things you didn’t do or say. Raising — or just plain surviving — a teenager is the greatest challenge a parent will face. They’re crazy, and they make you crazy. You confront. They argue. You make decisions. They rebel. You punish. They ignore the consequences. You relent. You hope for the best. They surprise you in ways great and awful. You are never — or hell, even occasionally — right, but the possibility of being wrong and facing all the “maybes” is unthinkable. My teenage step-daughter has made mistakes, as have I. We’re both fighters … too often fighting each other. She wants to be independent, free to live her own life. But as her parent, I know — despite what she thinks — she’s just not ready. Freedom kills kids just as sure as car wrecks, drugs and violence. And when she breaks the rules — the more “unfair” they are the more justified we feel — the consequences are harsh. She may not like us much, but at least she’s safe (screaming and crying) in her room. Parents don’t enjoy punishment (OK … maybe sometimes). Setting rules and enforcing them is the hard part. It would be easy to just give up when it gets hard, but our children deserve better. Being a parent means saying you’re sorry and still sticking to

your guns. My wife and I are generally on the same page, but we don’t know we’re doing the right thing. That’s especially true for me. I’m reactionary and antagonistic. I’m better at poking a stick at the coiled snake than playing “dispassionate cop” like the parenting books suggest. And I’ve made mistakes. A few years ago we caught our daughter sneaking out of the house. She’d already outsmarted the alarm system, and I was determined to keep her inside, so I put Gorilla Glue on all the windows. I was tired of talking, tired of trying to catch her and coming up with new forms of punishment that didn’t seem to work. I wanted to DO something … brilliant. Now we’ll never sell that house, unless someone’s looking to buy a potential fiery death trap. “I can take care of myself,” she’d argue. But she had no idea what she needed to protect herself against, and I didn’t want her to learn. That was my justification … then and now. Being a parent means waiting for the other shoe to drop. It always happens, and we’re never ready. There’s no solution to the relationship between parents and teenagers. We’re not supposed to see eye-to-eye, and if they think you’re cool … you’ve got real problems. They’re gonna do unbelievably stupid things, get caught, get punished … and do it all over again. And here’s the secret … they’re really not that good at it. My daughter always gets caught … always. When she gets busted, we get angry, she gets defiant, we stick to our guns and she learns a lesson — just long enough to move on to something else. In between are a lot of minor battles that are soon forgotten and funny moments that’ll last forever. Being a parent means doing your best, and if you do it right, those teenagers will become adults with teenagers of their own. Brett Buckner writes a weekly column in The Anniston Star and is a regular contributor to Longleaf.

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From my side... by Sarah Miller Parents … no teenager likes them, but we all have to deal with them. Unfortunately, parents get all the how-to books — where doctors try to help faceless parents deal with “typical” teenage issues. Here’s the kicker: No teen is typical. We all have our own demons and our own families. A lot of parents think there is just a quick fix, well, take it from someone living through it right now, there isn’t. There is no Band-Aid big enough to cover emotional scars or a broken heart. There is no time-out long enough to change a stubborn mentality, and there is no easy way around it. We get it, we’re crazy, emotional and just a pain some days. But what about our pain? The sad fact of life is that those books don’t really fix anything. They just tear down trust, which is something that’s not easy to come by in a parent-teen relationship. I have been let down so many times in 16 years it seems unreal. My biological father was never around like I needed him to be, leaving me angry and confused. My step-father came into my life when I was 8 and from there things weren’t exactly easy. He did so much that I didn’t understand, and looking back on it now, I realize he was just trying to be a good dad — something he had never done before, and something I had never experienced. Being the oldest in my family, I’m the guinea pig. I’ve helped my mom and step-dad realize there is no easy way to raise a kid, especially by putting them through hell — not on purpose, but hell nevertheless. No parent wants to see their kid make mistakes. They don’t want to see their child crying or hurting. But what parents don’t understand is that once a kid crosses that line into adolescence, there isn’t much they can do to help. You can’t stop someone from doing something they have their mind set on. Parents can’t see the future, neither can teens. Only time can tell which side is right and only a parent can be there when the dust clears to either pick up the pieces and help put them back or admit they were wrong, which is never an easy task. I have no doubt in my mind that raising a child is close to the hardest thing someone can do in their life, but I also know that it is supposed to be the most rewarding. I can’t change how I feel or how my parents feel, but I know one day I will have a kid and with my luck, they’ll be 10 times worse than I was. At least I know there is no magic book with all the answers. There is no way around growing pains, but there are combinations that can make growing up seem a little easier.

As cheesy as this sounds, teenagers need love and patience from their parents. You can’t lock them away until it’s all over, but you can stand beside them through it all, whether they realize it or not, that’s the best thing a parent can do.

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BIG Problem Tiny Bug

How microscopic aphids rocked the world of wine By Pat Kettles

arly explorers of the Americas were impressed by the prolific growth of luxuriant grape vines they found climbing to the top of towering virgin timber. These explorers came from cultures where wine had been produced for millennia from Vitis vinifera, the European vine species from which all classic wine-producing varieties are descended. Accustomed to seeing vines growing in rather orderly controlled rows, explorers wrongfully assumed America’s native vines would produce the same wines they were accustomed to drinking if they were only tamed by pruning and trellising. Unbeknownst to them, these New World vines were an entirely different species from their European Vitis vinifera that had provided their native countries with cultivars like chardonnay, merlot, cabernet and hundreds of other varietals

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that today provide 99 percent of the world’s wine. These newly discovered native vines were descendents of the genus Vitis, but they were not vinifera. They were from multiple different branches of the Vitis family, including the now familiar rotundifolia (muscadine) and labrusca (fox grape) from which the Concord grape is descended. Early attempts to make palatable wine from newly discovered native American grapes met with abysmal failure. Traditional European wine-growing methods did not change the animal. They were not wine-grape producing vines, but it would take several hundred years to sort this out. In the period leading up to the American Revolution, consensus of thought came to be that American wine production failures were not due to the ineptitude of settlers

tending native vines, but the fact they were working with the wrong vines. Thus a mass importation of European vinifera cuttings to America began. Vineyards were laid out and cuttings planted according to European models. These cuttings flourished at first, but inevitably foliage yellowed and the vine soon died. No one could determine the cause of this malady, including America’s first oenophile, Thomas Jefferson. As plant science improved, American nurserymen developed cultivars from native varietals that gave us grapes like Concord and Niagara. As the eastern half of the United States was settled and developed, in the Spanish held province of New Mexico stretching from El Paso to the Pacific, Jesuit and Franciscan monks planted Vitis vinifera grapes, known as mission grapes. Wine was successfully made from these grapes, but why these grapes thrived while other plantings of vinifera east of the Mississippi River shriveled and died remained a mystery. Something evil was lurking in the soils east of the Mississippi. This lurking, virulent pestilence would bring havoc to the most treasured vinifera vines of the world. The Victorians were avid plant collectors, especially the British. Many aristocrats collected so avidly they risked life and limb traveling the world’s most exotic locales collecting specimens. Orchids were especially prized and collected almost to extinction. Frenzied plant collecting and swapping took place on both sides of the Atlantic. Embargoes to prohibit such plant importation were non-existent. This frenzied plant exchange reached its zenith in the mid-1800s. Native American grape vines were considered especially exotic by European collectors, who took particular delight in these prolific climbers, training them to grow over trellises and pergolas, displaying them as treasured trophies. They were blissfully unaware of the dangers of indiscriminate plant collecting. All was well until 1865, when foliage on vinifera vines in the southern end of the Rhone Valley in France started curling up like

cabbages, turning yellow and then dying. Even vine roots that normally extend deep into these rocky soils dissolved into rotted mush. The virulent malady spread slowly at first, but then exploded exponentially until the entirety of the lower end of the Southern Rhone was infected. The alarm was sounded to French authorities, but the barbarians were already at the gate. Vintners had fought vine disease before. An outbreak of odium, a fungus resembling mildew, had been successfully defeated by extensive sulfur spraying a decade earlier. When the new blight appeared, vintners turned to what they knew, but sprays did not work on this new malady. Prized vineyards in the regions of Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne were unaffected at first. Vintners from these areas were rather apathetic to the plight of their fellow countrymen in the south. They were also complacent in thinking whatever was decimating vines in the south would not be able to cross natural barriers to reach their prized vineyards. By 1875 there were outbreaks in Bordeaux and by 1894 the pestilence had wreaked havoc on the northern-most grape-growing regions of France and had spread to all winegrowing regions in Europe, but who and what was responsible for this havoc? The first identification of the culprit came from a group of French scientists led by Dr. Jules-Emile Planchon, a botanist and head of the Department of Botanical Studies at the University of Montpellier. Planchon and his fellow scientists descended into the vineyards of southern France. The first symptom of the disease was a brown leaf gall, brown bump, on the under side of the leaf. When these galls were opened they revealed microscopic aphid larvae. Planchon and his team of scientists dug up an array of vines in varying degrees of disintegration. The roots of the sickest vines were totally enrobed in microscopic pinhead-size aphid-like creatures so virulent in their destruction that Planchon named the aphid Phylloxera vastatrix, the destroyer. Today this havoc-wreaking aphid

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is specifically known by its scientific name, Dactylasphaera vitifoliae. The realization this pestilence was both above and below ground must have hit these learned men like a ton of bricks. Dealing with the above-ground leaf enemy was one thing, but the underground infestation was another matter. They were up against a formidable foe. Modern-day scientists now know this aphid louse has a complex life cycle and, like toy transformer figures, has the ability to morph into different forms both winged and non-winged that are equally at home above and below ground. As matters worsened, scientists remained stymied in stemming the havoc raining down on France’s treasured vineyards on which the livelihood of thousands of Frenchmen relied. In 1870, Clèment Duvernois, agricultural minister for the Imperial Government of France, announced a cash reward of 20,000 francs to anyone who found an effective way to eradicate the destructive aphid. By 1875 the reward had risen to 300,000 francs. As the amount of the reward escalated, so did the preposterousness of solutions offered from an army of would-be experts, many of whom had no background in grape growing, much less science.

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The agriculture ministry received hundreds of suggestions from people trying to claim the prize. Many of these solutions involved dousing vines with copious amounts of urine and manure from varying species, flooding vineyards to drown the culprits, to drumming the insects out with marching bands. Apparently, no solution was too bizarre to submit. The prize was never awarded because even today the voracious aphid has proven immune to eradication, but how is it that world vines survive and today produce oceans of wine? The answer lies in those native American vines brought to Europe by Victorian exotic plant collectors. Planchon and others noticed as French vines succumbed to disease, native American specimens seemed unaffected even when grown alongside diseased French vinifera vines. He looked at the roots of these American imports and found aphids present, though in smaller numbers and the vine’s vigor seemingly unaffected. Suspecting these imports might have brought the disease to Europe, he traveled to America digging up many native species and found it present on the roots of all vines but again the plant’s vigor unaffected. He had found the likely source of the disease. He and other scientists believed the louse had been present on America’s native vines from the beginning of their existence, but over millennia these vines had developed a natural resistance to this pest. Leo Laliman, a Bordeaux winegrower and viticulturist, was likely the first to put forward the notion of grafting vinifera to louse resistant native American rootstock. Other noted scientists of the time, including Planchon, became advocates of grafting as a solution for not wiping out the louse but for rendering it neutral. Laliman would petition the French government multiple times for the prize money, but was turned down repeatedly because his solution did not accomplish total eradication of the pest. The grafting solution met with much suspicion even in the scientific community. The primary concerns centered around whether bringing native American rootstocks to Europe would bring further infestation. Also there was concern that vinifera vines grafted to American rootstocks would taste like muscadine rather than chardonnay and other European varietals.

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Some scientists of the era knew that rootstock is rootstock and as a vehicle for Vitis vinifera did nothing to change the vinifera grafted to the rootstock. Gradually this concept took hold and French vintners started planting American rootstock into which the following year they spliced a vinifera vine. After several years the French wine industry once again thrived, but many small producers left the trade because they could not afford the expense of replanting and grafting to American rootstock. On the other side of the Atlantic, as Europeans fought the American aphid, California’s budding wine industry was taking off, but this budding industry was rocked in 1873 when the pest was discovered in California. No one knows how the pest got to California. Likely it hitched a ride on European cuttings infected from native American vines in Europe. By the time of the outbreak in California, grafting to disease-resistant rootstock was widely accepted, and American growers had a better understanding of what needed to be done. In 1960 at the beginning of America’s modern wine industry, on advice of UC Davis enology scientists, California vintners planted on a rootstock known as AxR1. By 1990 this rootstock had been compromised by the resilient louse. A massive replanting has been ongoing since this reappearance. As a result, vineyards around the world are in various stages of replanting to more louse resistant rootstocks at a cost of $15,000 to $25,000 per acre, but the battle continues. The enemy has not been eradicated. At best science and Phylloxera vastatrix are currently at a stalemate, but Phylloxera has a head start by millions of years. Those in the wine trade are ever vigilant to keep the louse at bay, but modern science has not found a way to eradicate this havoc-producing microscopic pinhead size pest. Thus the battle continues. With this project, Pat Kettles has confirmed her status as Longleaf’s most dedicated researcher.

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May 20, 1863 Dearest M, I dare not use your name lest you be associated with my time here. Please destroy this correspondence as soon as you read it. As you know, Capt H brought me to stay with my Auntie V when Sherman overran Jackson and blocked our return to Mobile by destroying the rails. Yankees have held Vicksburg under siege since May 18. When I arrived by rail May 5, I refused to leave Auntie’s home. It was not until a cannon ball uprooted a camellia that shaded the south veranda that I recognized our true danger. I was sitting in that shade, Dear M, when dirt showered down on me like rain. At that point, Auntie and I ran down the bluff on which her house sits. I had to pull my slave J with me all the way. She is such a simpleton. We moved into the cave Auntie had her manservant cut into clay before he disappeared. It was just before the cannon hit that we learned Grant had moved south from Memphis and Farragut had blockaded New Orleans and sent vessels north. My residence is quite primitive as I am forced to live the life of a backwoodsman with only a bed and chair for comfort. J cooks our food on an open fire at the entrance. With what little money I have, I send her up the bluff and into market when shelling is light. She cries and begs to remain with me in the cave, “Them guns they scares me, Mz R,” she says. I tell her to get up off the floor, and I send her on her way. I must eat.

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Southern wife praying in makeshift cave home during bombardment of Vicksburg. Etching by Adalbert John Volck, 1864.

May 23 The earth here is unlike any I have known. It looks like white clay. It is soft and hard at the same time. If it is cut perpendicular, it stands strong as a wall. Cut it on an angle, and it crumbles. It can be cut easy as butter. Yet it holds its shape, so unlike Alabama riverbank clay. Locals call it loess. Before I arrived, multiple caves had been carved into these bluffs for shelter against the Yankees. Each cave is one or two rooms with an opening facing the Mississippi. From the western banks, the bluffs must look like a gigantic honeycomb. Shelling and shooting are almost constant now, but it rarely reaches us here.

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The siege of Vicksburg, the fight in the crater of Fort Hill, after the explosion, June 25, 1863. Library of Congress

June 6 Auntie V is dead. She died from dysentery. I laid her near the back wall, for J refused to go in and out the entrance if she could see Auntie. “Don’t make me go past no dead body,” J begged. No amount of beating would make her go foraging, which she must do now, for my resources are gone and there is little left to buy. The burial brigade called from above the next morning, and I answered with “Female body. One.” I know not where she was taken. How lonely here with only myself and J.

June 17 It was after the moon rose that the soldier came. He had crawled to the entrance, but he could not make it over the ledge J cut to block heavy rain. J found him before the sun rose. She ran into the back room where we stored what food and water she manages to gather. I have my bed there so she cannot steal what I have. She awakened me, jabbering about a dead man. She hopped up and down, pointing toward the entrance, her eyes 64 Longleaf Style Fall 2013

as round as a cow’s. He still lived. We dragged him across the threshold, clay crumbling beneath his weight. The soldier, a Yankee, would tell me between gasps that ruffians found him on the outskirts of town and beat him with axe handles. They threw him over my bluff for dead. Perhaps they thought he would sink in the Mississippi as it has been high several times since I arrived. I pulled him and J pushed. We laid him in my bed to hide him from the cave’s opening. I sent J to Auntie’s house for petticoats to use as bandages. We have no sulfur or lard to make salves. But J took some of the wood she had stowed and traded it among her people for healing herbs. He moans days and cries out at night. The leg festers and swells. I have to bring out the leather strap to make J cleanse his wounds. His body is battered, but his most serious injury is his lower calf where bone sticks through skin three inches or more. All we can do is wrap the leg to keep away flies.

June 19 He does not improve and is often delirious. The wound is shades of purples, greens and, in places, black. The stench of rot fills both rooms of the cave. I doubt he will survive the leg.

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And I have the soldier. J will not survive unless she meets some of her kind beyond the embankments surrounding Vicksburg, for she knows nothing that is true and lacks direction unless I tell her what to do. You recollect her. Capt H bought her across the river from Tuscaloosa before she could walk. She and her mother who came to cook for us. Her mother jumped to her death from our barn loft while she was heavy with her next child. It died. Capt H said, “No matter.” I was surprised at his lack of concern, for he places high value on his house slaves. But I digress. It has fallen to me to feed and bathe him. His body differs so from Capt H, who is fair. He has much coarser hair and it covers his entire body. While here, he has grown a beard that tints red when I hold the candle near. But his blood dries the same color as Capt H’s when he cuts his cheek shaving.

June 25 The young man worsens. I groped my way up the bluff last night while there

was a new moon. I took an axe Auntie had hidden under the woodpile and brought back as many logs as I could carry. Coming down I slipped and dropped several, but I believe I have enough for a fire to cleanse the axe. I have heard stories that one can chop off a leg at the knee. If the leg is tightly bound at the hip, the patient will not bleed to death. The only thing left to do is sear the wound. I go now to build a hot fire.

June 26 I could not do it, Dearest M. I lifted the axe over my head and aimed at the rancid leg. As I was about to drop the weapon with all my strength garnered toward that point, the boy opened his grey eyes. He looked at me and whispered, “I cannot live without my leg.” He knew! How like a monster I must have seemed. Perhaps he saw only the raised axe. I do not know. The agony in those young eyes forced me to lower the axe. A moment later, he closed his eyes. I

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June 28 Last night late, I whittled out bloodstained clay from the walls and scattered it over the floor. I managed to roll the boy over the bluff, and I burned the bloodied bedding. The fire has this cave as hot as Hades.

June 30 I received word from the burial brigade this morning that Capt H crossed the Mississippi under cover of darkness last evening. He should be here mid-day. Your loyal and devoted Cousin, RH Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton, CSA, surrendered his remaining 30,000 troops at Vicksburg, Miss, to Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, U.S.A., July 4, 1863. The City of Vicksburg would not celebrate the Fourth of July again until 1943. This is Laura Hunter’s second contribution of fiction to Longleaf.

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Gadabout Art Experience Info: Artists line the streets with paintings and artwork for sale. Downtown stores will be open with specials and sales. When: Sept. 20-21, Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: Chestnut and Broad Streets, Gadsden. Contact: 256-547-8696. www.downtowngadsden.com. Cost: Free Paths to Peace, Poetry in Mark Making, & Sculptural Sketches in Bronze & Clay Info: Art exhibit. When: Open Sept. 18-Nov. 16. Opening reception Sept. 21; 1-3 p.m. Where: Hammond Hall Art Gallery, Jacksonville State University Cost: Free Contact: www.jsu.edu/art 9th Annual Autumn Suds-Fest Info: Annual beer and food tasting fundraiser for Berman Museum. Music provided by Shiny Objects When: Sept. 21, 6 p.m. Where: Berman Museum, 840 Museum Drive, Anniston Cost: $35 individual tickets; $30 members; $28 for one or more tickets; $20 designated driver (no bar access). Tickets must be purchased in advance, no tickets will be sold at the door. Contact: www.bermanmuseum.org or 256-237-6261

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Anniston Kennel Club Dog Shows When: Sept. 21-22; all-day event Cost: Admission is free, $5 parking fee, $75-$120 vendor booth fee Where: Woodland Park Softball Complex, 901 Glade Road East, Anniston Contact: http://www.annistonkennelclub.org Gardening for Dry Places Info: Part of the Extension Office’s monthly Lunch and Learn series. When: Sept. 25; 12-1 p.m. Where: Cane Creek Community Garden at McClellan Cost: Free Contact: 256-237-1621

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49th Annual Mid-South Marching Band Festival Info: The Mid-South Marching Festival, founded in 1964, provides a field of competition for school marching bands. Bands compete in classifications which are determined by the size of the competing unit. Performance is free-form with adjudication based on the organizations ability to execute their show. When: Sept. 28 Where: Titan Stadium, 1917 Black Creek Pkwy., Gadsden Cost: Free Contact: 205-913-6241 or WDGroover@Bellsouth.net

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Birmingham Children’s Theatre Presents The Watsons Go to Birmingham Info: An Alabama premiere, and commemoration of Birmingham’s impact on Civil Rights in 1963. Based upon a deeply moving story and characters depicted in the novel of the same title, the play chronicles a lengthy stay in Birmingham by the Watson family of Flint, Mich., which coincided with a moment in world history: the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The Christopher Paul Curtis novel was both a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honor Book, and a New York Times Review Best Book. When: Oct. 6 and 13; 3-4 p.m. Where: Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex, 2100 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. N, Birmingham Cost: $9-$11 children, $11-$13 adults Contact: 205-458-8400 or http://www.bct123.org/

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Marshall Tucker Band Info: American Southern rock/country rock band with hits such as “Heard it in a Love Song” and “Can’t You See” When: Oct. 25 Where: Zinn Park, 14th Street and Gurnee Avenue, Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-237-0760

42nd Annual Shrimp Festival Info: Held each year during the second full weekend in October, this event is one of the nation’s premier outdoor festivals featuring more than 300 vendors that offer fine art, arts and crafts, a retail marketplace, children’s activity village, 10k/5k run, live entertainment, and of course, shrimp. When: Oct. 10-13, Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Location: 3150 Gulf Shores Pkwy, Gulf Shores Public Beach Area Contact: www.nationalshrimpfestival.com Michael McDonald Info: Distinctive and soulful, the voice of five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald is one of the most yearningly emotive instruments of our times. To this add formidable songwriting and keyboard skills, and you have an artist who has been a singular musical presence for four decades. From ’70s-era Doobie Brothers classics such as “What A Fool Believes” and solo hits like “I Keep Forgettin,’” McDonald is that rare thing in contemporary pop — an artist whose work is both timeless and ever-evolving. Presented by Knox Concert Series When: Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. Where: Anniston Performing Arts Center, Anniston High School, 1301 Woodstock Ave. Cost: General admission is $50-$75; Reserved seating is $80-$105 Contact: Lee Merrill at 256-741-8262 or knoxconcert@cableone.net

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“The Curious Savage” Info: The play, written by John Patrick, is a comedy about Ethel P. Savage, a woman whose husband recently died and left her approximately $10 million. Presented by JSU Drama. When: Oct. 17-20 Where: Ernest Stone Performing Arts Center (corner of Church Avenue and 11th Street) Cost: $5-$15 Contact: jsu.edu/drama or 256-782-5648 for tickets

Opening Art Reception Info: New artist reception for Nunnally’s Custom Framing & Noble Gallery. Featured artist Janet Hinton of Fairhope; acrylic painting on canvas, photography and printmaking. When: Nov. 1; 5-8 p.m. Where: Nunnally’s Custom Framing, 1014 Noble St, Anniston Cost: Free Contact: 256-237-5921 Winter Market Weekend - Members Only Preview Party Info: Preview of goods for sale at the Museum’s annual Winter Market When: Nov. 7, 6:30-8 p.m. Where: Anniston Museum of Natural History, 800 Museum Drive, Anniston Cost: Free to attend, items priced as marked

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Winter Market Weekend Info: Featuring hand-crafted goods from artisans near and far. When: Nov. 8-9; 10-5 p.m. Where: Anniston Museum of Natural History Lobby and Auditorium, 800 Museum Drive, Anniston Cost: Free to attend, items priced as marked Contact: www.annistonmuseum.org “Antigone” Info: Classic Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. Presented by JSU Drama. When: Nov. 14-17 Where: Ernest Stone Performing Arts Center (corner of Church Ave. and 11th Street) Cost: $5-$15 Contact: www.jsu.edu/drama or 256-782-5648

Fused Glass Jewelry Workshop with Lori Cummings Info: Learn to make glass jewelry in this one-day workshop. When: Dec. 8; 1-3 p.m. and 3-5 p.m. Where: Berman Museum, 400 Museum Drive, Anniston Cost: $35-$40 Contact: 256-237-6162 or dford@bermanmuseum.org “The Nutcracker” Info: 32nd annual performance by Alabama Ballet, presented by Knox Concert Series When: Dec. 8, 2 p.m. Where: Anniston Performing Arts Center, Anniston High School, 1301 Woodstock Ave. Cost: General admission is $20 for adults, $12 for children 12 and under. Reserved seating is $30 Contact: Pam McKenzie at 256-832-4554

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Homes for the Holidays Info: Tours of area homes decorated for holidays. When: Dec. 3 from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Where: Various homes around the county Cost: $15 for museum members, $20 for general public. All tickets on day of the event are $25. Tickets sales begin Oct. 22. Contact: Anniston Museum 256-237-6766 “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” Info: The hilarious story of Imogene, Claude, Ralph, Leroy, Ollie, and Gladys Herdman, six delinquent children who go to church for the first time after being told that the church offers snacks. Despite protests from other church members, they are given roles in the Sunday school’s Christmas play, in which they tell the Christmas story in a nonconventional fashion. Presented by CAST. When: Dec. 5-15; 7:30 p.m. Where: McClellan Auditorium, 100 Gamecock Drive, Anniston Cost: $10-$15 Contact: castevents.ticketleap.com or 256-820-CAST

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Holiday Pop Concert Info: Presented by Etowah Youth Orchestra When: Dec. 15, 2 p.m. Where: Wallace Hall Fine Arts Center, 1001 George Wallace Drive, Gadsden Cost: $12-$14 Contact: 256-543-ARTS

ONGOING: Downtown After Sundown Info: Farmer’s market, arts and crafts and food vendors, live music, children’s activities. When: Thursdays from 4-7 p.m. through December. Where: 8 Choccolocco Street, Oxford (street is closed to traffic) Contact: 256-225-5360, www.facebook.com/Downtownaftersundown First Fridays Info: Stores stay open late into the evening and downtown rocks with live entertainment, special events, sales, food, and artists from all over. When: First Friday evening of each month Location: Historic Downtown Gadsden Contact: 256-547-8696, www.downtowngadsden.com

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Imagination Place Children’s Museum Info: Imagination Place is designed primarily for children • Detection & Treatment of Eye Diseases including Glaucoma, Cataract ages 2-10, The kids will delight in exploring KidsTown USA • Detection & Treatment of Eye Diseases including Glaucoma, Cataract & Diabetic Eye Disease where everything is pint-sized. Downstairs is a medical clin& Diabetic Eye Disease • Refractive Surgery Consultations ic, grocery store, construction pit and more. You can even • Refractive Surgery Consultations hop in the back of the Red Cross ERV (emergency response • Complete Contactincluding Lens Care • Foreign Body Removal • Pediatric Eye Care Diseases Glaucoma, • Complete Contact Lens Care • Foreign Body Removal • Pediatric Eye Care vehicle) and make a disaster relief meal. Upstairs you can Ronald Dachelet, Cataract & WELCOME DiabeticOD, EyeFAAO Disease enjoy the turtle hospital featuring Madonna and Yoko our VISION INSURANCE Ronald Dachelet, OD, FAAO Dawn Dachelet Wilczek, OD VISION INSURANCE WELCOME two Russian tortoises, then visit the farm. • Dawn Refractive Surgery Consultations PARTICIPATING PROVIDER FOR MOST Wilczek, INSURANCES Dachelet OD Location: Imagination Place Children’s Museum with the PARTICIPATING PROVIDER MOST INSURANCES CALL FORFOR APPOINTMENT •CALL Complete Contact • Detection & Treatment of Eye Lens Diseases Care including Glaucoma, Cataract Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, 501 Broad Street, APPOINTMENT • FOR Detection & Treatment of Eye Diseases including Glaucoma, Cataract & Diabetic Eye Disease Gadsden Foreign Body & Diabetic Eye Disease Removal • Pediatric Hours: Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 • Refractive Surgery Consultations • Refractive Surgery Consultations Eye Care p.m. Imagination Place is closed the first Monday of every • Complete Contact Lens Care • Foreign Body Removal • Pediatric Eye Care • Complete Contact Lens Care • Foreign Body Removal • Pediatric Eye Care month for cleaning and repairs. Tickets: Full day admission to Imagination Place is Free for 0-9-ATT913-4-DTEHI--CalhounCountyAL PROOF INFO VISIONINSURANCE INSURANCEWELCOME WELCOME Account Manager: jl VISION INSURANCE WELCOME 13-12 VISION children up to 24 months and under. $5 for children 2-10, T913-4-DTEHI--CalhounCountyAL INFO 01070 Creation Date: 1-26-12 PARTICIPATING PROVIDER FOR MOSTPROOF INSURANCES PARTICIPATING PROVIDERFOR FORMOST MOST INSURANCES and $6pub) for all others. An adult must accompany children at PARTICIPATING PROVIDER INSURANCES Account jl DTEHI - 24.6p x 23.6p -12 Size: Manager: ATT 913 4cl (per CALL FOR APPOINTMENT Creation Date: 1-26-12 all times. merica’s Doctors of Optometry Inc Sent to Pub: CALL FOR APPOINTMENT CALL FOR APPOINTMENT Size: ATT 913 4cl DTEHI - 24.6p x 23.6p (per pub) : 163-8934 Contact: 256-543-2787, ext. 23 or www.culturalarts.org.

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