Wolverton Mountain.

[Joe Chi Minh]

Hey, folks! I've just come across some real American genealogical folklore, brough up to date. Canadian, too, for that matter!

Click on:

http://www.homestead.com/deenotes/wolverton.html

It's a fabulous site produced by a lady called Dee, containing some of her favourite songs. Specifically, the first screen you'll get is the relevant one to this post, a song from 1962, called "Wolverton Mountain", sung and co-written by a guy called Claude King. I think the main author might have been another guy - called Merle Kilgore, as he's mentioned first.

Some of you may remember it. It's one of the very best; best ever. Fabulous. In a blurb on that page, it states that the Clifton Clowers and his "pretty young daughter", in the song, were real people in Arkensaw, and Wolverton Mountain, in Canada

Anyway, on that page in her Guest Book, a lady wrote in saying that Clifton Clowers was her great grandfather, and his daughter would have been her "Granny Green"! How about that!

But what's more, a guy at least implied that that mountain in Canada was name after after one of his grandpappies!

The letters of appreciation for it are all great to read. But for all her songs she's composed graphics, pastiches, etc. And believe me, they're magically appropriate and, in the case of Kenny Rogers' "Lucille", very witty and funny.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. One of the ladies I worked with here...

her last name was Wolverton, and supposedly, they had some connection to the mountain.

But she's been gone a few years, and I don't remember all the details.

FSC

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. I was beginning to wonder

whether I was the only one who'd heard the song, FSC! Or maybe it wasn't considered to have any genealogical merit.

That lady must be related to the other one, then, FSC! But have you ever heard the song? Don't you think it's terrific?

By the way, you don't have MS, do you? I saw a post of yours on the subect.

And by the way again, though you're a very feisty and forceful Dem activist, you seem to me to have a very sensitive face - for what that little snippet is worth!

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Hey KCabot!

I have never heard the WHOLE song, but remember it being advertised for some K-Tel compilation back in the 70s. Just a few years before my time (but not too many...I'm near 40!)

Yep, I have MS, unfortunately. Just found out back in June. Am now taking Betaseron shots to deal with it, and they appear to be working so far. Guess my feistiness is good for something, huh?

Thanks for the compliment! That picture was taken before I got super feisty. I've lost most of my naivete, but not the sensitivity. It's a good thing they're not mutually exclusive!

:D

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Lovely to hear from you, Top Gun.

I'm glad your spirit is so combative, as it will surely help.

We never know what's round the corner, do we? Maybe a complete cure. I believe I saw something about a breakthrough of some kind recently, though didn't read it.

Have you ever used one of those barymetric chambers - I think they're called? Perhaps you're too fit for that, at least with the Betaseron treatment.

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. Hmmmm...

I haven't heard of the barymetric chamber. Got any info to share?

Until Dipshit and the Fruit Loops (ooh! great band name!) stop sitting on the stem cell stuff here, it's doubtful we'll see a cure anytime soon, but I know it's one of the major research projects all 'round nowadays.

And at least if I had to get this, it's the best time to. The Betaseron can catch it in its early days and arrest some of the damage before it gets too bad. So I'm pretty happy about that.

I'm still ambular, and haven't lost vision yet, so there's another blessing. I just have problems trying to remember things that used to roll of the tongue very easily, which sucks!

FSC

Top Gun. Hee hee :spray:

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. Hi Cookay F-S of that ilk,

I wish I could say I'd been right, but the early reports I'd heard about it - admittedly a long time ago - seem to have been mistakenly optimistic.

This is the URL for Google's finds on the topic, just in case you would be tangentially interested to read about it, anyway.

"Dipshit and the Fruit Loops" (ooh! great band name!)". It sure would be!

What's with the "spray"? I haven't come across that before.

Best regards

Paul

PS: I hope you don't mind, but I want to continue blethering to you a little more, using the private mail thing, as well as DU, as some things seem more private than the DU Board seems intended for. And I worried anyway that you might not have liked discussing your illness on a general kind of folder/thread.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. I've just realised

- this a small thread as well, F-S Cookay, though probably a good deal bigger than the health one anyway.

But by a strange coincidence, I've just read the non horse-racing part of one of our dailies, the Daily Mail, and this appeared in it.
Well, I'd better just give a few paragraphs. Though I'll look on their website, too, tosee if the whole article appears there:

"Cell transplants for Alzheimer's 'within a decade' by Robin Yapp

Scottish scientists have grown nerve stem cells that could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. (snip)

Experts believe that the development might help scientists to grow replacment brain tissue, within a decade forsuffereres of such a neurological disorders. (snip)

But experts in Edinburgh have become the first to create a 'pure' batch of nerve stem cells.

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's occur when brain cells begin to degenerate, but this breakthrough holds out the possibility of transplanting replacement brain tissue grown in the lab. (snip)

..Dr Tim Allsopp added, "The remarkable stability and purity of the cells is something unique in the field of tissue stem cells and a great step forward".

In terms of the possibility of using the cells n tansplantation, the other professor mentioned, said they were talking of a five to ten year range.

Some weeks ago, i.e before his breakthrough, I read a similar prediction concerning replacement of the brain tissue of stroke victims from the person's own stem cells, so things are looking up.

I mean there would see to be a connection with MS, in terms of Parkinsons - which was referred to in a lot of URLs about the decompression chamber.

Karl

PS: Here's a whole swag of articles on the subject on today's Daily Mail website:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/health/healthmain.html?in_page_id=1774

Then, in their own search engine, write: Stem cells brain tissue