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Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Jerry D. Coleman posted Wed, Jul 15 2009, 11:16am  What can I say about you: You have always been there, you have always cared, you have always made me smile and lifted my spirits! Thank you so much for all you’ve said and all the effort you have put forth. My door in East Tennessee will always be open to you and yours and as I told Bob and Gerry; Yankee money is no good here; so food and lodging and going out is free but Bob and Gerry are a class act and didn’t listen so well. Again thank you for all of your very kind words!!! Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Stu posted Wed, Jul 15 2009, 4:58pm  Fantastic news Jerry, & a real pleasure to hear in light of recent silence & absence, & worries from those far & near. 'Little known' is typical of your immodesty; 'well' is a far more welcome adjective today. Hope you regain your strength soon at a healthy lick & are soon back to living life & doing what you most enjoy. Your partner is priceless, as good partners are. Take it easy. Stu Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: /PJ posted Wed, Jul 15 2009, 5:03pm  After one of the most horrible weeks in my life, I FINALLY get good news! I honestly have tears. It's nice to "see you back" so to speak. As we say up here "take care of you eh?" I promise that once I get settled into the new place, I'll dop a line or 8 pages (LOL). Big squishy hug from the cold rainy prairies dear! Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Stranger posted Wed, Jul 15 2009, 7:51pm  Damn fine news my friend! And very good to hear from you. Sounds like you've got some new priorities, and quite frankly they sound pretty good to me. We'll continue to keep you in our thoughts, and add your brother as well. Please drop a line from time to time, you are one of my very favorite posters here. Be well, Mark Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Cherokee posted Wed, Jul 15 2009, 8:14pm  Well seeins that I'm not a Yankee, (I'm a southern girl living in disguise in Illinois), all bets are off. =) You might have recieved e-mail, or snail mail from one Bill Hancock. He did a review on your books years back, and he is a big fan. He is on a Yahoo group that I visit, and he has been asking about you, as well as some of the other members of the group. You seem to be the favorite Coleman brother, and well liked amongst the group, and they use your interviews, and past findings as a point of reference in many of their talks. (I knew I liked those guys)! I copied this update on their site, and they are tickled silly. Again, glad to see you 'home'. Aw hell, here's another ))BIGHUG(( Becca Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Rangoon posted Wed, Jul 15 2009, 8:27pm  Glad to hear you are doing well. I wish you long life and prosperity for years to come. Stay well! goon Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Mark57c posted Wed, Jul 15 2009, 9:31pm  EXCELLENT JERRY, EXCELLENT!!!!! There have been prayers and good thought sent your way for some time my Friend! This is Truly JOYOUS news!!!!! Mark Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: luna1580 posted Wed, Jul 15 2009, 10:39pm  i joined the site to late to "talk" to you, but from reading your articles and writings in other places i can say you have been a consistently clear and rational voice on all things CZ, and you have my great respect for that. i'm so happy that you're recovering! i hope you have many, many more cancer free years ahead, and that you still give yourself all the time you want, to spend watching the sun-rise and playing with the dogs, and just enjoying your family and friends. and stop by and "see" us only when you have time to spare, we understand :) Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: kybrowncoat posted Wed, Jul 15 2009, 11:08pm  WOOHOOOOOO and YEEEHAAAA! Do you need me to send you more stuff? Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: MizLinda posted Thu, Jul 16 2009, 10:41am  damn good to hear you again Jerry! So glad to hear you're on he mend. Miz Linda - Granny hugs and kisses to you and yours Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Cisco posted Thu, Jul 16 2009, 7:01pm  Its good to see you on the site again. Black cat sightings are still rolling in! Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Gerry Bacon posted Tue, Jul 21 2009, 10:04pm  Jerry! I am so sorry I missed this post. I'm on vacation, left Michigan a week ago Tuesday. I'm now at the wife's cousin's place in Ft. Lauderdale. I don't have words to tell you how happy and relieved I am to hear this news. I've not been in touch like I wanted to be, but I knew you were in a tough fight and needed to concentrate on that. Sounds like you kicked some big C ass! I especially thought about you this past week, when I spent a week in Pikeville, KY. I don't think I was that far from you. Yes, you are one lucky dude to have Tammy. And yes folks, she is beautiful in all ways. Jerry has been in the best of hands. Jerry, as soon as I get back, I'll shoot you an email with my new number. If you feel up to it, we can talk. You've just made this a fantastic vacation! Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: kybrowncoat posted Wed, Jul 22 2009, 12:50am  Pikeville?!! My family's from Hindman! You prolly saw some of my backwoods peeps. Which means you've seen them more than I have. Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Gerry Bacon posted Sat, Jul 25 2009, 7:58pm  I'm not sure where Hindman is, KY, but I didn't see anyone with hair as beautiful as yours. Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: kittenz posted Thu, Jul 30 2009, 9:29pm  I live and work In Pikeville KY. Were you here for the charity bike run? Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Gerry Bacon posted Fri, Jul 31 2009, 3:15am  No. My wife is from there. She moved here to Detroit in '67 and hadn't been back there since '76. It was my first time. We stayed with her aunt in Johns Creek, I believe. We spent a lot of time in the cemeteries, looking up her kin. We went to Davidson Cemetery four days in a row! We also went to Ferguson Cemetery and a really small one at Ratliff's Creek where her sister was buried. Betsy Lane (Layne?) is evidently named for her great or great-great grandmother, I can't remember which. She is also reportedly related to Ocatvia Hatcher, so we crawled around that goofy cemetery above town. Don't they bury anyone on level ground there, lol? We also hit the cemetery and the library. The people there were incredibly helpful and nice. We were sitting in Jerry's (?) having something to eat when the bike run did a short parade into town. I had a fantastic time. You may have seen me. I was the Michigan Yankee in the green Jeep Commander who seemed to be perpetually lost, creeping up and down the hollers, holding up traffic and gawking at all those mountains, lol. Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: kittenz posted Sat, Aug 1 2009, 5:10pm  Maybe I did see you ... were you the one holding up traffic? (jk :-) It's Betsy Layne (Layne was her surname). Yes the restaurant is Jerry's. It's a sort of local icon, and they have the best strawberry pie in the world. We really don't bury people on level ground, for a couple of reasons: (1) "Back in the day", when most family cemeteries were begun, there wasn't nearly as much level ground here, and ALL of the level ground was used for farming. People didn't even LIVE on the level ground, they just farmed it. There weren't any good roads into this entire area until the 1950s, and even then most of the roads were narrow, winding 2lane roads (the one down Johns Creek was one of the wider ones, if that tells you anything ;-p )So almost all food was grown locally, and almost all the level ground was farmed. (2) Most of the level ground here is "bottom land", that is, floodplain land. We have massive floods in the spring and sometimes in autumn too, and anyone foolish enough to build in a bottom was subject to being flooded. Cemeteries were never built on bottom land because during floods the coffins would be disinterred by flood waters and wash away. Did you get to visit The Breaks while you were here? It's The Breaks Interstate Park, and it's the deepest canyon east of the Mississippi. There are a lot of transplanted Kentuckians in Michigan! I lived there for a long time as a child, in western Michigan though, in rural areas near Grand Rapids. I also lived in Detroit (well actually Ypsi) in 1975 - 76. Still have a lot of friends and family, from Muskegon to Holland to Detroit and points between. Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Gerry Bacon posted Sat, Aug 1 2009, 6:57pm  Yes, we did visit the Breaks. It's an absolutely gorgeous spot! I couldn't believe they only charge two bucks to get in. Hell, here in MI, we pay five just to go to a park with nothing to see, so I thought it was a hell of a deal. Yes, the wife's maiden name is Layne. She is descended from Tandy Layne. Some of the other family names are Kimberlin, Gibson and Ackers. I'm not too sure about that last one. To emphasize to others how small Besty Layne is, you have to cross a one lane bridge to get back in there. We drove in looking for her grandmother's house, which must be gone now, and when we were leaving, there was a Jeep getting ready to cross that bridge. Instead of going across, he backed up and waved us on ahead of him. I know he wanted to check my plates, lol. With not much more than a dozen or so houses, we stood out like a sore thumb and I guess he wanted to make sure we weren't up to no good. I can't believe that John's Creek was one of the wider roads, lol. I appreciate the explanation on the flat ground. I also understand about the flooding, since the wife's cousin lost his bridge this spring. He's constructing the new one with old drilling pipe. Speaking about the roads, we came down an area called the Cowpens (?), a long downhill stretch with some crazy turns. The wife actually got car sick and I had to pull over for a few minutes while she recovered. If anyone visits Pikeville, stop in at the museum. It's small, but very nice and the curator is super friendly, just a good old boy who really enjoys his job. Next door is the visitor's center, in an old trolley car. The people there are just super friendly. I've already been told by the wife that we will NOT wait another thirty years to go back down, lol. That's fine with me. And yep, I was the one holding up traffic, lol. Subject: Re: JERRY!!!!! From: Rainbow Medicine Man posted Fri, Jul 24 2009, 2:55am  Jerry, man, that sure is good news. Somehow I never dubted you'll heal. ¿?. I've been a bit low of late, I broke my back with the motorcycle and it's been difficult to type or even read the screen. Can't move much (but I'll recover!). That must be why this went unnoticed. WOW, that's good news, hombre, thanks !. Lifts my spirits no end. Amazing how a close call makes one rearrange one's values, ehin?. That's good, yea, good. Take good care of yourself; that's a good woman with you, with a smile to warm one's heart. Maybe it's time to count our blessings?.

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