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A periodic record of thoughts and life as these happen via the various roles I play: individual, husband, father, grandfather, son, brother (brother-in-law), writer, university professor and others.

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I was born on Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina, then lived a while in Fayetteville, North Carolina, before moving, at the age of 5, to Walnut, NC. I graduated from Madison High School in 1977. After a brief time in college, I spent the most of the 1980s in Nashville, Tennessee, working as a songwriter and playing in a band. I spent most of the 1990s in school and now teach at a university in Tennessee. My household includes wife and son and cat. In South Carolina I have a son, daughter-in-law and two granddaughters.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

An Old "Old" Photograph


The young man in the bottom left-hand corner of this photograph sent this to me recently. The portrait was taken at Opryland in Nashville back in the last year or so of the 1970s or the first year or so of the 1980s. Now that I look at all the outfits, I wonder how I ended up dressed as the bandito. I'm guessing that I was 19 or 20 here. At far right in the back row is the late great Mike Tweed. All in all, it's seems a fairly believable picture except for the gym rat stylings on the lower halves of those notorious Tweed boys.

3 Comments:

Blogger nbta said...

Man you were looking young those days!

1/06/2009  
Blogger quig said...

Yes you are.... but then, you look young now!!!

1/08/2009  
Blogger mac said...

Well, thanks, guys. I was looking at a Christmas pic from the 1990s and was shocked to see how much white had entered my beard since then!

Mark, the "old" picture on the blog was probably taken a couple of years before I moved to Nashville.

1/08/2009  

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