Great, Alan, I live about 10 miles south of Fulton and about 5 miles west of Dresden! I served for two years as Minister of Music at First Baptist Church, Fulton, KY just prior to retiring from the full-time Music Ministry to take a staff position in the Department of Music at the University of Tennessee at Martin. I have heard a number of stories arising from the railroad industry in Fulton, but that one takes the cake! Fulton was the location where, before refrigerated cars, all the railroad cars carrying bananas as well as other fruits and vegetables, were iced down for their trip further north. It is still important to the railroad industry but not to the extent that it was in the early to mid-1900s. Speaking of piano tuners shooting straight, I was not on campus this afternoon, but the university was on lockdown for about an hour and a half due to a local bank robbery and the get-away car was located on one of the university parking lots. I thought later that the faculty and staff should pack some heat.... Interesting that you would post your comments this evening! Have a great weekend. It's snowing here...3 to 4 inches...the most this winter...and probably the last! Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 FAX: 731/881-7415 HOME: 731/587-5700 ________________________________ From: Alan Barnard [mailto:pianotuner at embarqmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 5:18 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: OT A tuner's last day ... >From Dresden (Tennessee) Enterprise Newspaper June 30, 1905 We are informed that the worst tragedy ever committed in Fulton was perpetrated there last Saturday evening at about eight o'clock. The circumstances are about these: Messrs. SPINK and WALTERS, brothers-in-law, the former a freight train conductor, the latter a piano tuner, were living in the same house. It seems best of feelings had not prevailed for a year or more. On Mr. WALTERS' return from Paducah, Saturday evening, he found a horse had been turned into the yard to graze, had gotten into the garden and mutilated it. WALTERS became enraged and opened fire on SPINK, who was sitting on the side of the bed holding a two weeks old babe that was then dying. SPINK, who was mortally wounded, laid the baby down and crawled to his pistol and while WALTERS continued shooting him, got his pistol and shot WALTERS through the heart, killing him almost instantly. SPINK died about midnight, and the baby died also during the night. So on Sunday, the husband, brother and child of Mrs. SPINKS were corpses in the same building. Moral: Piano tuners should always be straight shooters; you might want to practice ... Alan Barnard Salem, MO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080307/7938f9ce/attachment.html
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