Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mantle should read "mantel". My error. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 5/17/2015 2:07 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: > Hi Gerry, > > When I was growing up on a Mississippi farm in the 1930s, we spoke a > Southern drawl that was not even recognized by our Yankee visitors, > much less folks from your side of the"pond". It was so bad that when > my late wife, born in Wisconsin, was in the fourth grade, she had to > serve as "interpreter" between her teacher and children of the Yankee > engineers who built a munitions plant in our area (1942). > > I gave that paragraph as background, because, on the farm, aside from > a wood-burning fireplace, the only light we had was from oil lamps, > though not those that you pictured. We referred to those as > lanterns. Our "oil lamps" were of this type. This one is a mantle > decoration most of the time, but has been used during electrical outages. > > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/P5174633+FM_filtered.jpg.html > > > Not picking on you, just trying to spread the light. :-) > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 5/17/2015 9:36 AM, Gerry Walden wrote: >> Just resurrected this in b&w using SEP2 - hope you like it: >> >> http://gerrywalden.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Black-White-Mono/G0000907QnILyMI8/I0000ZnUBVhBagfg# >> >> <http://gerrywalden.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Black-White-Mono/G0000907QnILyMI8/I0000ZnUBVhBagfg#> >> >> >> >> Gerry >> >> Gerry Walden >> 023 8046 3076 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >