-----Original Message-----
From:   Rudy Christian [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   January 6, 1999 9:01 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: From a Missouri boy

In a message dated 1/5/99 9:59:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< The exact date of the earliest building is unknown because of Missouri
 raiders burned government documents in 1863. >>

I have a friend from Georgia who, when asked to speak at a Traditional Timber
Frame conference, suggested: "I'll bring a bucket of ashes with me so you can
see our historical timber frames first hand."

I forget, why did they call that war civil?
[Dan Becker]  ------------------------------------------

As I am a southern gentleman-in-training (I'll never quite make it, because my people are not from these parts), permit me to answer this.

They don't.  Proper folk call it "the late, great unpleasantness."

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Dan Becker,  Executive Director      "Conformists die, but
Raleigh Historic                              heretics live on forever"
Districts Commission                             -- Elbert Hubbard

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