Comments for David A. Farrell At-Large

Comment on HISTORY: Part I — Remembering Nat Lovell’s contribution to the history of Picayune by Ruth Stockstill Walker

Ruth Stockstill Walker — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:32:53 +0000

David, Nat died Nov. 5, 1987. (from his tombstone at New Palestine Cemetery. I enjoyed your articles; Nat wrote several times about my father in his two books. Also, the Telephone switchboard office was once in the old Stovall building, upstairs. I saw it there myself while visiting Dr. Woodward’s office on the back corner.
The “old Cammack House”, the large high-built house on the corner of 2nd St. and Curran Ave. was built by M.D.Tate .
Mr. Tate sold to The First Baptist Church in 1918 for use as a Baptist parsonage and the church sold to W. D. Cammack for $3000. in 1926.

Mr. Tate built a smaller house just behind this one and gave it to Lorena and S.G. (Grandpa) and I think that must be where Grady was born. It was later torn down for the Item office to be built. My parents lived diagonally across the street, behind the M.D.Tate house in the Alex Martin house (Tate’s daughter and Lorena’s sister) and mother told me of seeing Grady and his twin sister there as babies, and across the street were the Grices with twins, James and Jane Ann.
But Grady Jr. was born in 1924 while it was the Baptist parsonage.

Ruth Walker

Comment on HISTORY: Part I — Remembering Nat Lovell’s contribution to the history of Picayune by John Marquez

John Marquez — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:12:34 +0000

Keep um coming David. I think those of us who have been gone for a while and returned seem to appreciate the history of Picayune maybe more than those who remained here. I never had an interest in history while being educated but now I have developed a keen interest in my heritage.

Comment on PART I: The Hermitage is Ground Zero for area history, but site might be lost unless claimed by public by Mark Clinton Davis

Mark Clinton Davis — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:45:50 +0000

i’m sorry to be so blunt about this; but with at least four houses being called crosby mansion, the chain of ownership of the hermitage is always being lumped in with them distorting its history. and the most frequently repeated error in histories of the hermitage is that l.o. owned it.

Comment on PART I: The Hermitage is Ground Zero for area history, but site might be lost unless claimed by public by Mark Clinton Davis

Mark Clinton Davis — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:25:59 +0000

there is a mistake in this article. l. o. crosby never owned the hermitage and he never lived in it. l. o. lived in a house on the west side of river road which has been torn down. it was called crosbyhurst and was exceptionally ugly and poorly designed. l. o. jr. lived in the house on the corner of river road and 3rd avenue and r. h. lived in the hermitage. crosbyhurst would have been the crosby mansion as it was built by crosby; but the term crosby mansion is applied to l. o. jr’s house and to tommy’s house as well and that is accurate. the hermitage is not a crosby mansion as it existed for decades before the crosbys moved to picayune.

Comment on How much government is enough? by Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:15:16 +0000

I agree David. something has to be done, county government is completely out of control. They spent 32,000 dollars of our money exploring site locations to build 3 unneeded storm shelters. Counting Lumpkin, the leader of the pack, there are 6 of them. They should have done this simple job themselves but they chose to spend our money instead. $32,000 seems quite expensive to look for site locations, especially with 6 high paid employees, with expenses, already on the payroll. All of the whining and moaning last year over the budget was just a show. This proves they don’t care about saving money, they only care about keeping the public fooled.

Comment on COMMENTARY: Council discussion over promotional advertising highlights budget concerns; council looking for savings in all areas; fairness at issue, too by John Pigott

John Pigott — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:32:49 +0000

City money should not be used to pay for advertising for each and every group…ever..but especially now with a tight budget. It’s hard to make this change without offending some of the voters but it has to be stopped now. In the past it has been used as a political tool, to promote city council members, and on an almost unlimited basis. If the council members want to help send a team to a tournament or a group to a competition, let them dig into their own pockets…not the taxpayers. I think this adminstration will step up and stop this practice.

Comment on Council takes second look on promotional advertising; fields complaints on cable tv, Wood Oak subdivision; hears Egger again call for removal of Miller by Woody Spiers

Woody Spiers — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:56:07 +0000

Charter Cable is terrible. Their service stinks and they could not care less about their subscribers. I switched to Directv right after Katrina and have never regretted doing so.

Comment on COMMENTARY: Council discussion over promotional advertising highlights budget concerns; council looking for savings in all areas; fairness at issue, too by Woody Spiers

Woody Spiers — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:53:37 +0000

When the city is in as bad a financial condition as they are currently should they spend $50,000 or $75,000 a year supporting every ball team and dance group that shows up asking for money or should they spend the money paying their bills or paving streets? With the shortage of money they are facing they are going to have to pick their priorities.

Comment on Taylor blasts Norquist lobby group in unusually harsh statement by Woody Spiers

Woody Spiers — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:47:16 +0000

Gene Taylor does a better than average job of representing his district but I’ve always had a problem with his ties to the Democratic Party. He aligns himself with the party of Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid and Barack Obama and even though they are the majority party at this time i fail to see the benefit of Taylor being a member of a party with views so opposite the majority of his constitutients.

Comment on COMMENTARY: Council discussion over promotional advertising highlights budget concerns; council looking for savings in all areas; fairness at issue, too by roxie mitchell

roxie mitchell — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:31:42 +0000

How can the city turn away taxpayers and voters for this type of request?