tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post4314609913948147008..comments2023-07-20T08:50:43.257-05:00Comments on Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss: June 2, 1892: Bob Lewis (Jackson)Anne M. Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058444764378209954noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-33663203692195076762018-10-25T05:48:02.599-05:002018-10-25T05:48:02.599-05:00TY for the info. It is depressing but necessary. TY for the info. It is depressing but necessary. nealhughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13190685659622717632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-85844721016732422462016-09-18T08:14:58.090-05:002016-09-18T08:14:58.090-05:00Thank you, Roz. I think you are pretty amazing, to...Thank you, Roz. I think you are pretty amazing, too!Anne M. Lasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13058444764378209954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-39384852160762500472016-09-17T20:13:13.840-05:002016-09-17T20:13:13.840-05:00You are truly a blessing !!You are truly a blessing !!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03897832153567918052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-87652189091436202016-09-17T08:45:14.281-05:002016-09-17T08:45:14.281-05:00Yes, they are things that hang from southern trees...Yes, they are things that hang from southern trees.<br /><br />I am sorry you feel that way, but I can be no more than I am.<br />Anne M. Lasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13058444764378209954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-10904109786557248992016-09-16T09:51:34.080-05:002016-09-16T09:51:34.080-05:00I didn’t know until yesterday where the name of yo...I didn’t know until yesterday where the name of your blog came from.<br /><br />“I always assume people are not interested in me. If someone wants to know something, I assume they'll ask me and I always answer as honestly as I can.”<br /><br />Anne, I've told you that I'm very much interested in you. You're like a stranger from a strange land to me, and what you might find boring about yourself, I find anything but boring. <br /><br />I think you’re telling me that you give nothing of yourself other than to respond when people try to draw you out with specific questions, but that you take no interest in knowing them or drawing them out. I’m sad for it and wish things were different, but I don’t want a one way friendship, a friendship in which I can appreciate what you to offer but can expect no reciprocity.<br /><br />I’ve had no experience of agoraphobia, but I guess all phobias feel the same. I’m afraid of high places, although I used to fly an airplane; but my worse phobia is of being hemmed with a crowd of people and not being able to readily escape as in an auditorium or, worse still, on an airliner. I can understand why, as people are packed into planes in ever smaller spaces, they would freak out. I don’t blame them for this but the greed of the airlines.<br /><br />Anyway, I wish you well, and if you should ever change your mind, I’m here for blog visiting and corresponding. I don’t ask for much, but I do need a little.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-11931748746599756582016-09-16T08:01:30.181-05:002016-09-16T08:01:30.181-05:00Quite honestly, I always assume people are not int...Quite honestly, I always assume people are not interested in me. If someone wants to know something, I assume they'll ask me and I always answer as honestly as I can. I am used to being ignored and, for the most part, I am okay with that. I speak up when I feel I have something that adds to the conversation. As an agoraphobic, I don't spend a lot of time talking to people I am not related to and they already know about me.Anne M. Lasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13058444764378209954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-78439536408909542022016-09-15T18:20:51.159-05:002016-09-15T18:20:51.159-05:00"I am not the person who lends their voice to..."I am not the person who lends their voice to the conversation. I find I learn more about people by watching and listening."<br /><br />Are you saying that you can't imagine that anyone would want to learn about you, or that you wouldn't anyone to learn about you?Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-69551589020961218952016-09-15T17:50:02.705-05:002016-09-15T17:50:02.705-05:00I do find your blog interesting. However, I am usu...I do find your blog interesting. However, I am usually the person who sits in the corner and listens to the conversation. I am not the person who lends their voice to the conversation. I find I learn more about people by watching and listening.<br /><br />Today is the beginning of my hiatus. I need to spend time with more enjoyable things and replenish myself. Thank you for reading my blog and for your praise. Anne M. Lasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13058444764378209954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-16262544230150707632016-09-15T12:30:25.542-05:002016-09-15T12:30:25.542-05:00They first give Foley’s name as William. It’s inte...They first give Foley’s name as William. It’s interesting that the lynching was dismissed as the act of an unsavory element when thousands were said to involved, at least to the extent that their presence implied complicity.<br /><br />I don’t know if you’re interested in me or my blog, but I hope you are. I have a few Southern friends—through blogging—and two sisters with whom I keep in touch, so I was excited to find you and another interesting Southern (Mississippi) blogger during my study of lynchings. I also like you and respect what you’re doing, but if we’re to keep in touch, I need to feel that the interest goes both ways. I’m already stretched to keep up with as many people as I do—I have penpals whose blogs I follow; then there are people with whom I correspond who have little interest in my blog; and then there’s the fact that I’m not the kind of person to be content with leaving a single short sentence in the comment section to posts and letting it go at that—but you interest me enough that I would be honored to make make the effort to keep up with your blog and, to the extent you care to share it—your life. You really have an extraordinary blog, and I like to think I do too, although I’m all over the place as to what I post about—for example, going from posting about lynchings right into a post about cats. Unlike you, I can’t focus heavily on these murders month in an month out, but, more to the point, my interest is in Mississippi history in the 20th century, and lynchings are one part of that history. So much of what happened in Mississippi was tragic, cruel, unthinkable, outrageous, heart-rending, and so on, but I see lynchings simply being the climactic events of the evil that reigned for so very long.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.com