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CAP’N BILLY
AND HIS LOVELY & VIVACIOUS BRIDE!

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Well, actually it’s a republication. One of the first posts on this web site was a poem by a good friend of your host and his LVB, who shares his interests in aviation, Dixieland jazz music, dancing and various other activities.

This friend is also an excellent poet, and this poem was published here 8 or 10 years ago and here it has resided ever since on the Features page. We’re moving it back to the home page for the occasion of the author’s upcoming birthday, which will be this youngster’s 90th! To read his poem, which was written many years ago but still seems fresh and new, click HERE.

ADDENDUM: The birthday party mentioned above has taken place, and Your Host & his LVB were on hand for the occasion. See some pictures of the gala event HERE.

 

For a daily dose of news and insightful commentary from the midlands of SC visit:

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If you are a member of The Opera Guild of Greater

 Columbia (or if you would like to find out more

about this local phenomenon) click the logo at right:

 

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Planning a visit to South Carolina? First visit:The South Carolina Information Highway

For pictures and histories of

USAF training aircraft click here

For pictures and histories

of airline aircraft click here

 

ATTENTION RAWL FAMILY MEMBERS!

For pictures from the 2006 reunion click:

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Click the “T-Bird”

at right for USAF

Pilot Class 61-F

(guests welcome)

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Click the rank insignia

at right for an

Aviation Cadet (now
an extinct species) site

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Click the P2V “Neptune” at right

for VP-23, in which your host served during his first military experience

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Columbia, SC contains one of the most active Sherlockian scion societies in the world today. If you have any
interest in the life and times of The Greatest Detective Who Never Lived click the hansom cab at the right

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For an early 2007 newspaper story about our little group

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Welcome to Cap’n Billy’s Aerodrome! Your host is pictured above along with his LVB (You may read his bio if you’ll click here). His LVB is the brains (as well as the beauty) in the family – an accomplished musician with a master's degree (voice and piano), former high school and private music teacher, and currently Music Director of our church. We both enjoy classical music and opera, being members of several local music and arts organizations here in the midlands of South Carolina where we reside. This site consists of much more than aviation material, including but not limited to: poetry, Sherlock Holmes, arts & entertainment, etc. Please browse the site at your leisure. Hope you enjoy it!

 

HOME IS WHERE THE “ART” IS!

 

            The home of the subject of this feature, that is. The creator of the objets d'art depicted here, Dr. Edwin E. Gordon, is not a trained artist, but one of the foremost musical pedagogues in the world today. An author, teacher and lecturer, he has written more than 20 books on music theory and numerous research papers, monographs, etc. In recent years he has been exploring music development with infants from one month to eighteen months old and refining those skills in children from eighteen months to age three. Interestingly, before he entered academia, he was a string bass player with the Gene Krupa Orchestra. You may learn about his musical career here. However, this feature is devoted to another interest of his. While writing his books he likes to take breaks occasionally to create absolutely stunning art works. He is completely self-taught in this area, and this art genre he has created doesn’t have a name (He solicits suggestions!). However, we believe you will agree that they are incredibly striking, and that you will be captivated by them. Take a look and see if we’re right!

(Note: We’ve tried to keep the file sizes at a reasonable level, but in order to show these pieces to the best advantage some of the page sizes will slightly exceed 100 KB and will look best at a screen resolution of 1024 X 768 pixels.)

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(Addendum June 23, 2008) Click the prof at the right to see a feature on a recent exhibit

of Dr. Gordon’s wall hangings at the Richland County Public Library in Columbia, SC.

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