Hello to all of you Dot-Communists in Cyberspace:

 

I am trying to be 'straight' and 'factual' in my missives to ya'all, but it is extremely difficult!  My hooves keep hitting the wrong keys.  Have you ever tried typing with a pair of horseshoes attached to you hands?  Then your back feet get in the way- but how I acquired a 4-footed keyboard will have to wait for another occasion.

 

Oh, by the way- in my last report, I forgot to mention that Cheng and Eng, the original Siamese twins, were very attached to each other.  I just couldn't let that fact go by!.

"The Electric Mule" will be a regular posting to our front page and our  "Global Studies" People section.  The author is on a 5 month travel of Asia with his wife.  He will write from his unique perspective of his travels and offer non-sequiturs to current events in the world.

Hello to Everyone in Radio and Televison and Computerland:  The beat goes on.

 

Tomiyo and I are in Chaing Mai in northern Thailand- on the edge of the Golden Triangle (where opium production is increasing according to the Bangkok Post), after a train trip from Bangkok which was 7 hours late due to an engine breakdown in the middle of the night.  The ride reminded us of AMTRAK train trips we took from New York to DC in the past which were supposed to last 3 hours but ...

"The Electric Mule" will be a regular posting to our front page and our  "Global Studies" People section.  The author is on a 5 month travel of Asia with his wife.  He will write from his unique perspective of his travels and offer non-sequiturs to current events in the world.

Hello Again to Everyone out there in Radioland:

The East is Red (especially when the sun rises in the morning!).  And to coin a phrase:

'it's a long, long way from the green, green grass of home'

Tomiyo and I are now in our 3rd day in Bangkok (I remember a childhood joke which I heard sitting around waiting as a caddy at the Country Club- Confucious say: Man who rush thru airport turnstiles bound to... you fill in the rest!).  'Thailand, the Land of Smiles' has been engaged ...

Fayette Mitchell and the Founders of Frostburg

The following information was provided by Lynda Edwards Tilley, a native of Frostburg who now teaches English in Howard County, Maryland:

My great-great grandfather, Fayette Mitchell, was emancipated by a man named William Reid in 1843. Two years later Fayette purchased property from Meshach (died in 1863 at 76 years of age) and Catherine Frost, the 1812 founders of Frostburg. That property would be where the Mitchell-Edwards family has been until this day. For a black man to have owned land, particularly that many years before the end of the Civil War, was extraordinary.

 

When he purchased the land, it was his intent that a corner of it be used by the Dickerson A.M.E. church, the members of which had ...