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| "In the South, the breeze blows softer...neighbors are friendlier, nosier, and more talkative. This is a different place. Our way of thinking is different, as are our ways of seeing, laughing, singing, eating, meeting and parting. Our walk is different, as the old song goes , our talk and our names. Nothing about us is quite the same as in the country to the north and west. What we carry in our memories is different too, and that may explain everything else." --Charles Kuralt in "Southerners: Portrait of a People” ~~~~TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2007~~~~~~ We are still going to the Pioneer Restaurant In Zolfo to eat, we start gathering there about 5PM for great food, and then over to the Park Pavilion Building for our UDC & SCV Meetings at 6:30. This is at the corner of US # 17 & SR 64 Come & bring a guest UDC Ladies, we have some business we need to take care of at this meeting, so please--- do your best to attend. SCV The Commander & Adjutant want to remind everyone that elections are coming up in January. If you are interested in running for a office or would like to nominate someone for one, Please let them know. Reminder for upcoming events Our Meeting in November will be Tuesday the 27th. Mark your calendars!! Remember normally; we meet the 4th Tuesday of the monthwe will not have a regular meeting In December ; 2007 November 3rd, will be Civil War Days at the Cape Coral Museum, it is a very good way to spend a Saturday and its free! Some good speakers will be there ,also some living history, The Ft. Myers UDC will be there and they will also have the books there to help people look for their Confederate Ancestors. The Black History Museum will have a display,And there will be plenty of Soldiers, Confederate and Union and of course rifles and “Ruth” the cannon! Come and enjoy the day. Remember Saturday December 1st is our combined South West Florida SCV & UDC Christmas Picnic at the Hendry House in Labelle., there will be info and directions at the meetings before hand for those who need it. The Big news now is the upcoming Charters for the 2 new Camps. 1st Lt. F.C.M.Boggess in Everglades City & Capt. Francis A. Hendry in Sebring. As soon as the dates are set we will let everyone know. Anytime you can go to another camps meeting you gain, by getting to know some great people. The Hendry Camp meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month. The Boggess Camp meets the 2nd Thursday of the month The Twiggs Camp and the Peace River UDC Meet the 4th Tuesday of the month. The Footman Camp meets the 4th Saturday of the month. If you are interested, ask us for times and Places. We all need to work on increasing the Membership in all our camps as well as helping to start new ones. This goes for the Ladies too, we all need some younger members , to take the reins and keep things going strong and keep our heritage and History alive ........ Commanders Corner; .............(Words from Leon) So you want to be a redneck? I know most of you know how I personally feel about being called a ‘Redneck’; So, I thought I would include the definitions in this months letter Definition: Redneck (From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia) Used either as a pejorative or as a matter of pride, the term redneck refers to a (typically male) person having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course of their lifetime. The effect of decades of direct sunlight on the exposed skin of the back of the neck not only reddens the skin, but renders the skin leathery and tough, and typically very wrinkled by late middle age. Redneck is often used to refer to the stereotype of a southern U.S rural lower-class person. A stereotypical redneck has a beer belly, lives in a trailer, drives a pickup truck, enjoys hunting, and votes Republican. Many people would also assume that a redneck was an anti-negro racist although this meaning may not be generally understood. In South Africa the name redneck (Afrikaans- rooinek) was applied to the British soldiers who fought during the Boer War because their skin was sensitive to the harsh African sun. The phrase is still used by Afrikaners to describe English speaking white people. Ironically, the term is used by the English to describe very conservative Afrikaners Webster's New World College Dictionary red·neck· noun Slang; a poor, white, rural Southerner, often, specif., one regarded as ignorant, bigoted, violent, etc.: often a derogatory term Etymology: from the characteristic sunburned neck acquired in the fields by farm laborers Webster's Dictionary (1930) Michigan and Indiana Farmers, Whose necks are red from working outside on their farms red·neck [ réd nèk ] (plural red·necks) noun 1. an offensive term for a white farm hand in the southern United States, especially one regarded as uneducated or aggressively prejudiced
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