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12-26-2011, 01:50 AM
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Re: African Witch Doctors
Here are some more pictures, along with quotes form my mother when she emailed these to me. Thanks for the positive feed back on the previous two pics and I hope you enjoy these as well. I'll ask my mother if she has more, which I'm sure she does, and for her to email them to me. Oh, and "Meemaw" is my grandmother: "Back then it was the Belgian Congo, because Belgium still held rule, and their cruelty to the natives must have been bad - I remember hearing Joe rant and rave about it, and I’ve read a little since being grown. On the old world maps, one of the ten stations was on it (always surprised me) but you would probably have to hunt to find it now. Our station was on a hill, carved out of the jungle; where I was shipped off to school was out in the plains - no jungle." #1 "On one of the Congo Super Highways – stopping for lunch – me, don’t know who the boy is now, Meemaw, Betty Lou Murray, Uncle Glen Murray -- Bulape (say BOO-lah-pay) was one of the Presby stations – it was up in the hills and the only station where they could have cows/milk – there were no tsetse flies there, we always had to have KILM (gag me) - powdered milk, because we could not have cows at the other stations. The little girl, Betty Lou, was one of three children, she later died of polio. Lots of the mish kids were left out there, buried from tropical diseases etc. Obviously we had stopped for lunch. Note the non-paved street. This was one of the bigger roadways; most of them by us were large paths - and away from the jungle area where Mutoto was. Bulape was up in the hills." #2 "Don’t know who these boys were - note how skinny Joe was, and our old “puddle jumper” from Mutoto - we had two of them. The APCM stands for American Presbyterian Congo Mission-Mutoto. All the stations had APCM in front of their name." #3 "The Mutoto station" #4 "Me in the African jungle on a boulder that will soon be gravel; among the pieces that the boys area already starting to pound down. You can see one of Joe’s workers to the right in the shadows." I remember mother telling me that the boys that worked with my grandfather would break down these big boulders and when they got to certain size, heat them up and would then use them to make bricks for hospitals, etc. They had a brick press, and if I remember correctly, it made 3 bricks at a time. And that was a big deal back then in Africa. Could you imagine the time & work it would take to make the bricks by hand, and then to build a dwelling??!!! Ugh.  ·  ·  ·  · |
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12-26-2011, 11:58 AM
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Well I stand corrected. My mother is in her 70s and when I asked her again about it & and anymore pics, she had total recall. Maybe the memory comes and goes at her age, or maybe she thought I was asking about something else when originally asked about it long ago: "Joe trapped and shot the leopard. In “leopard season” they bothered the villages, or people out in the bush, and even came up on the back porch to get our cats and our Basenji, Matschu (which was the native word for ear - Basenjis have big, stand-up ears). So Joe would put out his big trap where one was really troublesome to catch it. He killed, cured, and brought five skins back (to the states). Two were older adult males, with the skins more yellow than white, like the younger ones have. Anyway. They disappeared long before you were born. There is also a picture of the big python he killed and skinned and cured, too, but it is either in the books or on the slides. I think it was about 17 feet long. He intended to have shoes made for Mama - but that didn’t happen, for a reason I have forgotten. There is a picture somewhere of David in front of one of the traps. They would put a goat in it, to lure the leopard." |
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12-28-2011, 01:53 PM
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You have A truly wonderful herritage full of fascinating and wonderful stories!! I love that you ask and are interested in what your family was like and the treasures you can keep and share with your children, and grandchildren to come!! My family is from Polland and Russia and escaped during the hollocaust,and I adore recreating the family recipe's that were passed down to me by my Grammy!! Keep learning all you can!!  |
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01-08-2012, 01:13 AM
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Thank you for the kind words! I suggested to her a couple of years ago that she should start creating a picture book; pics from living in Africa with captions/stories for each one. She's finally starting to gather all of her pics and her slides as I consistently bug her. Along with hardcopy pics, my scanner will also scan slides and negatives, so I can save everything down. Then she'll need to write small blurbs for each pic. And then the hard part: see if someone would be interested in publishing it. If not, no biggie, as I will at least have all of this to pass down to my kiddos. |
