751 research outputs found
Telegram from Bud Watson to Amon G. Carter, Jr.
No full textTelegram from Bud Watson to Amon G. Carter, Jr. upon the death of Amon Giles Carter. The telegram expresses condolences about his death.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_meachamcarterpapers/1357/thumbnail.jp
An essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell by Peter Pullman
No full textThis is an essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell written by Peter Pullman, a jazz scholar and author of Wail: The Life of Bud Powell (Brooklyn: Bop Changes, 2012).One image file (pdf)This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Letter re: vehicles
No full textLetter from Bud Burmeister, advertising manager for the Worth Hotel, to Amon Carter regarding some vehicles. Enclosed is a newspaper article entitled, "President to Use Noted Auto on His Visit Here."Dear Mr Carter The Rolls should be among the Shady Oaks vehicles - I learned indirectly that it can be bought from Mr Watson - Why not look it over when Mr Roosevelt is here and then let me know if you are interested. Affectionate Regards to Mrs Carter and Yourself Sincerely Bud Burmeiste
Epithelial-mesenchymal feedback signalling during vertebrate organogenesis : genetic analysis of BMP-Gremlin1 antagonistic interactions
No full textBranching morphogenesis of the metanephric kidney relies on an intricate molecular system that controls a highly regulated
developmental program. Metanephric kidney organogenesis involves a complex system of epithelial mesenchymal interactions
that orchestrate an elaborate epithelial branching process. Although it has already been shown that BMP signalling is involved
in this process the present study reveals the functional importance and relevant interactions of BMPs with the antagonist
GREMLIN1 (GREM1). Our genetic and molecular analysis identifies GREM1 as an essential negative modulator of BMP4 signaling
during initiation of kidney branching morphogenesis. GREM1 is essential for positioning the ureteric bud, initiating its outgrowth
and proper epithelial branching. GREM1 is not only required to antagonize BMP4 but genetic analysis of its interactions with BMP7
reveals a more general role in modulating BMP signaling. In light of these GREM1 interactions with BMP4 and BMP7, my Ph.D. research
indicates that GREM1 orchestrates initiation and progression of epithelial branching by establishing spatiotemporal control of BMP
activity in the mesenchyme surrounding the Wolffian duct, ureteric bud and likely also branching epithelium
Campanulina cliftonia Watson, 2011, sp. nov.
No full textCampanulina cliftonia sp. nov. Fig. 1 A–E Material examined. Holotype, NMV F 171352, infertile colony on dead bryozoan on floating pontoon, Clifton Springs boat harbour, Port Phillip, depth 0.3 m, coll: J. Watson, 7 /04/ 2009. Paratype, NMV F 171353, infertile colony on serpulid tube, on floating pontoon, Clifton Springs boat harbour, Port Phillip, depth 0.2 m, coll: J. Watson 22 /02/ 2010. Paratype, NMV F 171354, infertile colony on mussel shell, St Leonards pier, Port Phillip, depth 3 m, coll: J. Watson, 20 /01/ 2010. All material ethanol preserved. Description from holotype and paratype (live material). Colony minute, stolonal, hydrorhiza loosely attached to substrate, stolons tubular. Hydrothecal pedicels arising irregularly from stolon, diameter about same as stolon; pedicels variable in length, weakly corrugated to almost smooth, cylindrical or expanding slightly to base of hydrotheca, perisarc thin. Hydrotheca slender bud-shaped to almost tubular, variable in length, operculum comprising up to 20 thin segments arising in distal half to quarter of hydrotheca and converging in a tuft; no demarcation with body of hydrotheca; perisarc of hydrotheca and opercular segments thin; hydrothecal diaphragm usually indistinct but concave in paratype; no nematophores. Hydranth very extensile with a whorl of 16–20 long moniliform tentacles with rings of nematocysts; tentacles extended in an amphicoronate pattern, base of tentacles connected by a conspicuous web with groups of large nematocysts; hypostome small, conical. Column of extended hydranth 0.5–1.0 mm long, tentacles to 0.7 mm long. Cnidome comprising: i) anisorhizas, capsule bean-shaped, 17–19 x 6 µm, shaft ~ 20 µm long, finely spinous, thread very long, probably in intertentacular web. ii) anisorhizas, narrow canoe-shaped, 8–11 x 2.5– 3 µm, shaft ~ 15 µm long, in tentacles. Colony transparent white, hypostome white. Hydrorhiza, width 52–60 Pedicel length 104–180 Diameter 48–56 Hydrotheca length, diaphragm to apex 300–360 maximum diameter 144–160 diameter at diaphragm 52–60 Remarks. Campanulina is a poorly known genus with few described species, some of which have been assigned to the genus merely as a convenient repository for difficult material. Authors’ opinions differ widely about the validity of the genus: Cornelius (1995 a) included it in the family Campanulinidae Hincks, 1868 whereas Calder (2003) referred it to the Phialelliidae Russell, 1953. Campanulina tenuis Van Beneden, 1847 (see Rees 1939) lacked an operculum but possessed an intertentacular web. Later concepts included species with an operculum and webbed tentacles. Until the ramifications of the genus are unravelled I follow Bouillon et al. (2006), who describe Campanulina as uniting ‘campanulinid type’ hydroids with unknown or incompletely known life cycles. Species of Campanulinia listed by Bouillon et al. (2006) are: Campanulina panicula G.O. Sars, 1874, C. pumila (Clarke, 1875), C. rugosa Nutting 1901, C. humilis Bale, 1924, C. ramosa Fraser 1938, C. maduraensis Billard 1940, and C. paucilaminosa Billard, 1940. Campanulina maduraensis, C. rugosa, C. panicula and C. paucilaminosa form relatively tall branched colonies, some species are fascicled and most have fewer opercular segments than Campanulina cliftonia. Campanulina humilis Bale, 1924 was described from Professor Chilton’s collection in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch of material from the hull of the Terra Nova when in Lyttleton Harbour, New Zealand. Ralph (1957) examined the type microslide and provided a detailed supplementary description of the species as Opercularella humilis. Unfortunately this slide of C. humilis was destroyed in a mail robbery in New Zealand when being returned to the Canterbury Museum (P.M. Ralph, pers. com., 1960). There is no more known material of the type. Trebilcock (1928) described and figured stolonal and branched specimens he identified as Campanulina humilis from Dunedin, New Zealand, speculating that the branching habit and closely annulated pedicels bring it close to Campanulina turrita Hincks, 1868 (now included in Phialella). I have examined Trebilcock’s microslide in the collection of Museum Victoria and find it identical with Phialella quadrata (Forbes, 1848). Pennycuik (1959) recorded fertile colonies of? Opercularella humilis from rock pools in southern Queensland, her figures of the gonothecae, each containing a developing medusa, brought O. humilis close to Phialella quadrata. However, neither she, nor Vervoort & Watson (2003) took the final step of synonymising Campanulina (Opercularella) humilis with Phialella quadrata. Infertile pedicellate colonies of Campanulina cliftonia slightly resemble Phialella quadrata but that species has more deeply corrugated, strictly cylindrical pedicels and smaller hydrothecae with fewer opercular flaps that do not meet in an apical tuft (see Watson 1994 b). Ralph (1957) examined a specimen of the medusa Eucope annulata von Lendenfeld, 1885 held in the Australian Museum. She found Lendenfeld’s description misleading and identified the medusa as that of P. quadrata. Although infertile, the new species is referred for the present to Campanulina. Reconsideration of its taxonomic position must await the finding of fertile material. Etymology. The species is named for the type locality of Clifton Springs in Port Phillip, Victoria.Published as part of Watson, Jeanette E., 2011, New species, new records and redescriptions of Thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Leptothecata) from Southern Australia, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3122 on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20396
Interview with Dorothy Watson Hooper
No full textDorothy Watson Hooper discusses the Hooper-Watson feud, its origins in conflicting loyalties during the Civil War, escalation from minor fights and vandalism to murder, and how a couple of generations later the feud dwindled with the Hooper and Watson children and grandchildren even getting married to each other.' .~
Transcript: Dorothy Watson Hooper
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Interviewee: DH Dorothy Watson Hooper
Interviewer: JC Jason Coggins
Interview Date: November 5, 2014
Location: Tuckaseegee, NC
Length: 26:58
START OF INTERVIEW
Jason Coggins: Alright so uhh-
Dorothy Hooper: This You got it on. OK This was during the civil war. That Mac
Hooper and Monroe Hooper sons of Andrew Hooper. Deserted the uhh confederacy
Joined the union. And so the confederacy uhh uhh captains and and uhh sargents came
huntin for Monroe and Mac, because they had deserted.
JC: Right.
DH: And they came up across the river here to the old uhh Lambert Hooper place.
Andrew's place and their mother Sarah Woodring Hooper was home with Lambert her
youngest son who was 8 years old. That was the baby of the two brothers. That were
there but they were hid up on the hill behind the house. They were laying up on the ridge
watching these soldiers these Confederate soldiers, all these Union soldiers, I'm sorry,
(background noise) drive in and ask her where these two sons ofhers were and she told
them she had no idea, where they were. So they took her youngest 8 year old son in
front of them. Made him walk all the way down the river and in behind the Tuckaseegee
Baptist Church. The old road back behind the church at that time. And he walked and he
told his dad, his son Monroe, which was my grandpa, my father-in-law, Told he said he
took my dad 8 year old and they stopped by the river and said he didn't he was scared to
death he was barefooted he didn't know what they were talking about, they all they were
on the horses they talked a little while and finally they told him he could go back home.
He said I ran every step. So Mac and Monroe came to the house and got food and left
after they saw their younger brother come back home. What they were trying to do is to
get them to come forward
JC: Right
DH: to to look after this little brother of theirs
JC: Right they thought if they they took him it would scare em into coming out
DH: Scare em into coming out, so they didn't they didn't think they would harm
him but they were trying to get them out of the woods
JC: He wrote some in there that he seemed to think that had some to do with the
the feud was that north and south kind of a politics sort of deal
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DH: It was it was it was political. Its in the book about uh uh (long pause) its uh
and over land and I think that Mac ended up with the uh some of the, most of the land uh
through a grant that he got a lot of this land and his mother was Sarah Woodring so she
got uh 40 acres it tells in the book that she got 40 acres and gave back to some of them to
try to stop the feud
JC: Right
DH: That was going on. But You know It was Just that the Watsons and the
Hoopers feuded over small things like I'm telling you about uh they started with small
things like burning haystacks, (JC-yea) killing dogs, until finally they killed John Ansel
acrossing the river and uh he drove his team into to his house he was dead. And urn But
uh They say different ones have said which I am not sure about this that it was a mistake
that a Watson didn't kill him that a Hooper killed him. So Franks father said he that
people wasn't real sure about that.
JC: You said I, I didn't have the recorder on a minute ago but you said your heard
all these stories or what few stories you know from your dad.
DH: My dad told me a few of them Franks dad told me some of them about his
dad. And it was My great my great granddaddy was in on this feud and his name was
Bud Watson and uh his son lived at Glenville. Uh My dad told me that much. Uh But
you know I don't know I can't remember a lot about that's the reason I wanted this book
back so bad. But uh Which I am going to try to find it. (laugh)
JC: Urn What is uh what kind of general impression of the whole thing do you do
you care Just that it was
DH: I don't think I mean I thought that most of it was kind of foolish and it
started out with young men out carousing bout trying to do these things to aggravate the
other family and it Just got from little things into big things. I think it Just went from uh
from like stealing like we said burning haystacks and killing dogs to killing men.
JC: And Just every time somebody did something a little bigger then what the one
before had done. (DH- right it Just kept growing and got bigger) It Just growed
DH: Uh Which uh my dad told me that it was something that uh shouldn't have
happened uh he said it it was uh first started out like kids playing then it went on into
bigger and bigger things and then this dessertion between the confederacy and the union.
Uh And a lot of it was over politics uh back then they .. took that (JC-yea) real serious.
JC: Yeah Given the analogy that you had of the kids playing I don't know how
many times I have seen kids start out playing end up in a fight.
DH: End up with little fight then sometimes the parents get in on it then it Just
goes from small to something that they wish had never happened or started.
JC: So the urn I guess today then probably both sides mostly Just regret that
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DH: I think so I think that's what happened. Because later on I was told of course
even down to my generation that a lot of em got along and married had children. And urn
Mr Lloyd Hooper told me that. Uh he was one of the older men that told me a lot of
things he said that in later years that some of the Hoopers and the Watson children,
grandchildren married and it was all settled. And uh but-
JC: Do you know urn not necessarily these two families but do you know any
other events like that in in Jackson county or Tuckaseegee where where two families
maybe disagreed and it it got violent at some point or?
DH: Uh no uh he wrote in here something bout the Middletons got in on it. Uh
The Middletons and Hoopers some way got a disagreement over some property at about
the same time. But I think that uh (sigh)my great grand father in law gave this Middleton
man 40 acres ofland to settle something. To to keep from being in a feud.
JC: Just a peace token.
DH: Peace yea it was something through the Middletons and the Hoopers to. It
told uh they told in some cases that the Hoopers were a lot meaner than the Watson's.
(laugh) I am not sure about that. That they were the ones that did a lot ofthe
drinking(JC-Right) and may not have a lot but they did a lot of the drinking and that they
were the bad guys that uh got a lot of this started. Now that The book tells that to.
JC: Uh We talked the other day and I think that a lot of people don't appreciate
how much so but but back then this whole area was pretty wild this was kind of a frontier
sort of.
DH: It was,yea it was I've heard that it was. At the time there wouldn't many
families that lived here. The first white man that lived ever uh that was in the valley was
a Hooper and he came from Elberton Ga. And he lived in a house behind our church
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across the river. The chimney still stands there. And the date is on that chimney they tore
the house down and rebuilt but left the chimney with the date.
JC: Is that urn is that right over by the Junie Hooper house?
DH: No this is on Fred Smith road (JC- Oh Ok Ok) down the river Mary Joe
Cobb lives there I told you about her. (JC-Yea) Ok her house the chimney's still standing
with the date of the first white settler in in Tuckaseegee. And he came from Ga.
JC: I think George had told me urn that his family came out of Ga. And that some
ended up in SC I think and some up here.
DH: Yea. At this place my great grand father owned it. And he was one ofthe
first settlers that came in here. Thomas Powell and he bought this place and raised his
family. Which We have all this property the 7th generation. (JC-7 generations) Seven
generations on this property. (JC-that's that's impressive) Yea yea and I still have a lot of
the furniture some that he made but he come from SC also and this was all barren county
there was nothing here.
JC: Right, so now this the house we're in right now this was the uh Watson
property right?
DH: No this was Powell (JC- This was Hoopers?) and it was my family it wasn't
Hooper it wasn't Hooper and it wasn't Watson but it was the Powells, and uh, but uh, the
Hoopers was across the river.
JC: Right.
DH: And uh we lived on that side of the river. But the Hoopers owned that whole
side from the all the way from up at Messers uh Canoe Creek down that whole mountain,
down like I say to the church. Now Mack Hooper gave the property gave to the
Tuckaseegee Baptist Church for the church he's for the board of education for the school
and then to use as a Baptist church also and then in latter years the board of education
gave the land and the property to the Jackson County Schools er not to the Jackson
County Schools gave it to the church to the Baptist association and so now it's it's just a
church.
JC: Right.
DH: But it was a school.
JC: I guess urn back then there wasn't really anything they was I guess four five
six families that had farms in this through here.
DC: that was about it.
JC: and there wasn't no general store or anything here was they?
DH: Not at first I don't think they had to go to East Laporte to Blackwood
Lumber Company they came in first and that's where they bought their groceries they
walked into East Laporte.
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JC: East Laporte I heard before er this is kind of a different subject but I had urn
been told before that at one time East Laporte was urn one of the bigger towns in Jackson
County.
DH: It was.
JC: When the lumber company-?
DH: They had a train there they had a store a commissary they called it they had
their own money and they gave you their money and you couldn't buy nothing nowhere
else you had to uh you had to use that money in that store.
JC: (laughing) So uh for your paycheck they give you money that you couldn't
give to nobody else but back to them.
DH: back to them.
J C: (laughs)
DH: That's, that was the policy.
JC: Yeah.
DH: And my grandmother cooked for them up on Caney Fork she cooked for the
uh Blackwood Lumber Company at a camp up there, for a bunch of men that worked up
there, that uh cut logs I guess.
JC: It's the urn there was a flood in 19-
DH:40.
JC: Was it 40?
DH:Uhhuh.
JC: And that's what took everything out wasn't it? Just washed it all-
DH: Just washed it all away-- yeah
JC: You're not you're not nearly old enough to remember any ofthat at all?
DH: Ohyes.
JC: Do you?
DH: Ohyeah.
JC: I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have figured you were old enough to remember
any of-
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DH: Yeah I can remember it very well. I remember the flood uh covering the rive
it was almost up to her to our house. Course the house wasn't built.
JC:Right.
DH: Uh it covered Frank, the bottom where Frank's Dad had over there, and it
washed the bridge one end ofthe bridge out. It and the bridge in Bryson City was the
only two bridges left in the 40 flood. Every other bridge in the whole county, Cullowhee,
everywhere was gone.
JC: Really.
DH: Yeah.
JC: What did it just rain for a week?
DH: It rained for uh about six or seven days and nights solid and what they said
was it the mountain, the mountain behind us, it did the same thing and came right down
through here, uh some of them call it spill out some of them call it spew up we don't
know we think the dirt, the earth got so full of water that it just bubbled out.
JC:Right.
DH: And washed out big slides out of the mountain, and uh at that time I lived
with my dad in Canada section but as soon as we got able to walk we walked the
mountains and came down here. My aunt, they was a man that lived just above us that
drowned, him and his two sons, and his wife, and she was expecting a baby and she
washed about 200 yards downstream. Urn she said a big light, bright shining light, and
she didn't know where it came from was a tree limb, and she grabbed it and hung on to
that until she got her legs wrapped around, and said she stayed there the rest ofthe night
and her husband went over these little falls right up here and they found him in Bryson
City and they never found the little two boys.
JC: That's-
DH: And uh but my aunt, my mother's sister, walked down here when it got
daylight, she lived just above here, they stood here on the hill and they saw this man
floating, in the water, his feet would come up and then his head and he was floating with
the logs.
JC: Right.
DH: And all the other ... trash. But she said that they saw him. And there was a
man that came in here to help build the Glenville dam, they were working on it, and up
here at Thorpe power house he had parked his car and he was from Tennessee and he
slept in it that night to see the foreman the next morning for a job. And that night the
flood came and washed his car washed him away and they found him about three miles
and his car all tom all to pieces he was dead. And his family got over here and they was
the ones that hunted it him and uh he was buried under rock and debris.
JC: So they urn so they were actually building the, the dam at Glenville?
DH: Glenville Lake.
JC: When the flood happened?
DH: Right when it happened.
JC: But now they hadn't built none of-
DH:No.
JC: -none of these up here, Bear or Cedar Cliff or any of those dams yet?
DH: No, no they hadn't built those. Those started in the 50's and it was 40 the
flood was in the 40's.
JC: When they built them dams did they did they, did they bother to tell people
any kind of reasons for, I mean we're going to build them for electricity or so we can
control floods like this flood in 1940.
DH: Uh electricity.
JC: Electricity is what they-
DH: Yeah my husband worked on all four of them he started on the first one
making 90 cents an hour and ended on the third one making two dollars and twenty five
cents an hour.
JC: What? That was a pretty good bit of pay raises right along.
DH: Yeah and uh he operated a big machine.
JC: How many years was that over?
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DH: Uh ... goodness that was maybe fifteen year.
JC: A fifteen year period?
DH: Yes and we bought our place back with the money here that we, we, that he
worked the dams. Yeah I was born in 29.
JC: Well I wouldn't have guessed that. I would not have guessed that at all.
DH: Yeah.
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JC: Urn well I don't know what else really to ask about this. You, you had
obviously contributed to the uh Mr. Middleton's book, The Forks of the River there, can,
can you think of anything else I ought to ask maybe or? That you can just think of off the
top of your head?
DH: No uh, it says here (reading from Trouble at the Forks by Walter Middleton)
a Watson family went to help a Hooper family work until noon, all who helped were
invited to eat ecept the Watsons
JC: That's just orneriness there.
DH: The Hooper women refused to feed them. That was a direct insult to the
whole Watson clan. That was part of the feud. You know that they went to help them
work until noon.
JC:Right.
DH: But uh it's a great book and I borrowed this book so I could review some of
the things that I had, I had forgotten. But I had told Walter some of this stuff but uh and
he worked with Frank on the dam they were, they were buddies, worked together.
JC: I think he said in there that his uh, ah maybe his grandfather or something was
friends with the Hooper family.
DH: Oh yeah Dave, Dave Middleton.
JC: So they've been friends for just-
DH: Yeah.
JC:- generations on back.
DH: And him and Andrew were the ones that something happened and he gave
Andrew's wife back 40 acres of land for to settle a feud, it was a feud they was having.
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JC: How many, that's a, lots of acres have been mentioned, how big a, I mean you
told me like the area, do you know what kind of acreage that would be.
DH: I have no, I have no idea maybe five or six hundred acres.
JC: Five or six hundred acres that's a-
DH: yeah
JC: big farm.
DH: Yeah he owned all where the Wesleyan church is and Saunderses and down
all the Moses land he owned it but he owned nothing on this side of the river. The
Hoopers didn't own anything on this side of the river. They owned it all on the, on the
other side.
JC: On the South side I guess.
DH: Yes.
JC: Well that's a pretty good stretch ofland.
DH: Yeah.
JC: Well I certainly appreciate you helping me.
DH: You know I was trying to look over this a little bit and kindly (word lost to
turning pages) some things that I've forgotten.
JC: Right.
DH: Like this right here is one of the things I remember the most was when uh
John Ansel was shot.
JC: Right the story back that you said that he-
DH: Right.
JC: -was headed home in his wagon and uh-
DH: He was lying in a pool of blood (pause while turning pages) but most the
Watsons uh they started at uh in Hamburg (reading from the book again) they were
working up a murder spree to be carried out at Robert Watsons home in Hamburger, or
Hamburg. (stops reading) so they were uh trying to figure out who to kill and what and
when.
JC: Right.
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DH: But uh but they lived in Hamburg but it was with the Watsons or with the
Hoopers (pause while reading) now that Dave Middleton he was the one that he was born
1848 now he was the one that gave uh Walter a lot of information and he knew this.
JC: Is, is Mr. Middleton still alive by any chance or he's-
DH: He died not, not too awful long ago.
(Long Pause while Ms. Hooper looks at the Book)
JC: Does anybody urn, let me think, did anybody ever talk just about what life
was like back then in general just living in this area.
DH: Uh I know what my grandma said how hard life was and she told me one
time if, if the men uh all they had was a farm like to live on uh their gardens and their
crops she said if what men uh where most men got their money was they made whiskey
there was a lot of after booze, stills. And she said those people had a little extra money to
buy little extra things but she said that was the only extra money there was and she said
the guys from down Sylva way would get this, they'd have to ride a horse and buggy.
JC: Right.
DH: Or a horse to come back into the mountains to pick up a load of booze. And I
can remember very well when our Sherriff was killed uh Griffin Middleton was my dad's
first cousin he went up in Canada to arrest this man uh he was uh Jackson County
Sherriff and uh he went to arrest him and the man was drunk and shot and killed him and
that was in 19 and 51. Uh because he was my dad's first cousin the sheriffwas. Do you
remember hearing of Griffen Middleton?
JC: I don't know ifl've ever heard that tale about the sheriff getting killed.
DH: Demos Woods? Demos Woods killed him.
JC: I don't think I've ever heard that one.
DH: That was out at Rock Bridge near Wolf Mountain.
JC: Ok.
DH: Uh he shot Griff and killed him and I know uh I went to the trial some my
dad wanted to go so I went with him.
JC: What'd they throw him in prison forever or?
DH: Yeah he died in prison.
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JC: Did he?
DH: Yeah, and then Jess Brown did you ever know him? That had the store?
JC: I did. I remember Jess, he might have sold a little booze too.
DH: Yeah, you know his wife was killed. I went up there that day, and Jess and
my dad was first cousins, and uh Rob(?) Brown and this Mathis boy, Tony Mathis, killed
her they cut her throat. I remember that, that day. They just, and of course this is latter
years this is not way back.
JC: I can, not well, but I can remember Jess having his store up there and stopping
in with Dad and just
DH: He sold, he sold Booze
(At this point Frank Hooper, Dorothy's Husband enters the room.)2654
END OF INTERVIE
Bud ontogeny in nondefoliated and defoliated abies balsamea at the ultrastructural level, 1984
No full textThe purpose of this study was to determine whether defoliation, a condition of stress caused by Choristoneura fumiferana herbivory, induces a disturbed pathologic condition in presumably normal tissue produced by the affected balsam fir trees. Techniques used in this investigation included dry weight determination, light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and biochemical and physical analyses.Terminal branch sections that contained shoots with buds and needles were cut from the upper crown on opposite sides of the tree. Collections were made from several previously selected trees in Vermont during April, June and July. The collected materials were labelled, placed in plastic bags and returned to the laboratory for histological and electron microscopic studies. The shoots derived from buds of stressed trees were shorter and produced fewer needles than shoots derived from equivalent position in nondefoliated buds. Unlike July-collected buds, the April buds did not exhibit distinct apical meristem zonation. The ultrastructural study of defoliated April-collected buds differed from nondefoliated buds, in that nondefoliated buds, were very active prior to bud burst and shoot elongation. This activity was indicated by the substantial increase in the number of Golgi-associated vesicles, several large vacuoles with heavy electron dense granular inclusions, abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, proplastids and cell plate formation. Defoliated bud cells, unlike the nondefoliated bud cells did not contain a high population of cells exhibiting Golgi-associated rich regions, mitochondria, and apparent ce 11 p 1 ate formation. The absence or reduced presence of these metabolic indicators, in defoliated Aprilcollected buds suggest that the defoliated buds are metabolically disturbed. The eventual elongation of shoots of reduced length and number of needles as observed in June-collected buds indicates that activity was not completely inhibited in defoliated buds. The smaller bud size in defoliated balsam fir could also mean that prior accumulation of substances by the bud was effectua1 in that bud development may have been delayed. These findings indicate that Choristoneura fumiferana herbivory alters bud development
Cold hardiness and water content during deacclimation of grapevine bud and cane tissue
No full text1988 Summer.Covers not scanned.Includes bibliographical references.Computer assisted thermal analysis was used to measure deep supercooling in dormant bud and cane tissue of Vitis vinifera L. cv. 'Merlot' during a five week deacclimation time period. The temperature of the Low Temperature Exotherm (LTE), an indicator of hardiness, of both cane (internode) and primary bud tissue responded to weekly increases in air temperatures with bud tissue responding faster than cane tissue. Bud tissue from pruned and unpruned canes retained the capacity to supercool until early bud swell 18 April 1987, when the mean LTE temperature of -9.8°C became obscured by High Temperature Exotherms (HTEs) occurring between -5 and -8°C. Cane tissue had lower LTEs than bud tissue on each date and at each position. Cane positions nearest the trunk, whether canes were pruned or unpruned, were found to be slightly hardier than those more distally oriented, which was not observed with buds. Pruning treatments did not influence the loss of hardiness in either bud or cane tissue. Water content of canes was more affected by all three factors (date, position, and pruning) than was hardiness. Bud water content was only affected by date, and was lower than cane water content for every date and each position throughout the study. Canes increased in water content with each more distal position. Pruning slowed the rate of cane hydration during the week it was most rapid, especially at the most distal position. Observations during the most pertinent three weeks of this study indicate that cane tissue hydrates rapidly but dehardens only slowly, while buds deharden more quickly yet have only a small increase in bulk water content. The main effect of pruning was on cane water content
Filellum conopeum Watson 2003
No full textFilellum conopeum Watson, 2003 Filellum conopeum Watson, 2003: 159 –160, figs. 9 a–c. Type series. Holotype— Filellum conopeum Watson, 2003, malinol-mounted microslide, sparse fertile colony on stem of Acryptolaria patagonica (NMV F 91342) (Watson 2003: 159). Type locality. From the holotype, off Macquarie Island (53 ˚ 55.8´S– 53 ˚ 55.7´S; 159 ˚ 5.5´E– 159 ˚ 4.7´E), 453 m, (Watson 2003). Description. See Watson (2003: 159–160). Distribution. Filellum conopeum is known only from its original description, off Macquarie Island (53 ˚ 55.8´– 53 ˚ 55.7´S; 159 ˚ 5.5´– 159 ˚ 4.7´E) (Watson 2003). Remarks. Filellum conopeum was described by Watson (2003: 159) as bearing “Hydrothecae stolonal […]. Proximal quarter to one third of hydrotheca adnate to stolon, dorsal abcauline wall furrowed by many close, sharpedged ridges with minute ragged frill of perisarc; ridges fading on adnate wall. Adnate wall becoming free at a sharp upward bend, free part cylindrical or weakly expanding from bend to margin, free part straight to broadly curved, walls smooth, occasionally with several regenerations. Margin circular, transverse, with smooth, distinctly everted rim. Perisarc of walls fairly thick, thinning distally. Hydranth with c. 12 tentacles and clavate hypostome”. Trophosome features of F. conopeum are found in other species of the genus, such as F. serratum, F. a n t a rc t i c u m or F. magnificum, so they alone do not allow a proper identification of the species, although F. mangnificum differs from Watson’s species by the distinctly larger hydrothecae, particularly in relation to the diameter of the hydrothecal aperture. As with other species of the genus, truly diagnostic characters of F. conopeum are based on features of the coppiniae: “Coppinia bud-shaped, c. 1 mm wide and 1 mm high, comprising many tightly packed gonothecae enclosed within a cone of protective nematophorous tubules. Gonotheca flask-shaped (lateral view), base rounded, body expanding a little from base to shoulder then narrowing into a short straight or slightly curved neck tapering to a circular aperture; in transverse view gonothecae polygonal. Nematophorous tubules similar in length, not forked, conjoined just above gonothecae then becoming free, most narrowing distally and inwardly curved to meet above gonotheca; terminal orifice circular. Perisarc of gonothecae and tubes moderately thick; perisarc of tubes somewhat roughened. Planulae enclosed in gonothecae small, spherical.” (Watson 2003: 160). The general structure of the coppinia of this species resembles that of F. a n t a rc t i c u m and F. magnificum, in which the defensive tubes are situated on the periphery of the mass of gonothecae, like a fence, arching over the gonothecae (in F. magnificum the defensive tubes also arise among the gonothecae). They are different, however, because the gonothecae lack a distal neck in F. antarcticum, and have a short, clearly differentiated distal neck with an everted rim in F. magnificum. In Watson’s species, however, the “body expanding a little from base to shoulder then narrowing into a short straight or slightly curved neck tapering to a circular aperture”. Although Watson did not give measurements of the gonothecal neck, this seems distinctly longer in general and variable in shape. The cnidome of F. conopeum is unknown and, therefore, no comparison concerning this character can be made.Published as part of Marques, Antonio C., Peña, Álvaro L., Miranda, Thaís P. & Migotto, Alvaro E., 2011, Revision of the genus Filellum Hincks, 1868 (Lafoeidae, Leptothecata, Hydrozoa), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 3129 on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20678
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