While I Still Remember: The Stories of Fr. George Hale as Told to and Illustrated by Betty A. Bowman (Classic Reprint)

While I Still Remember: The Stories of Fr. George Hale as Told to and Illustrated by Betty A. Bowman (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from While I Still Remember: The Stories of Fr. George Hale as Told to and Illustrated by Betty A. Bowman These stories of George Blodgett Stuart Hale are intended as a lighthearted look at his remembrances which, for the most part, have as their setting the Episcopal Church. Fr. Hale, a third generation priest, was Rector of St. Timothy's Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, for thirty-six years before his retirement in 1992. He is also the founder of St. Timothy's School and Hale High School, where he was headmaster through these years. My association with him has been as a parishioner and historian of the church and lately as a co-worker in this endeavor. Initially these stories were intended to be memorial annotations for St. Timothy's, but as the interviews with Fr. Hale continued, stories poured forth and a few early tales of Charles Stuart Hale, his father, who came to the Southern Appalachians as a missionary for the Episcopal church, were recorded. These stories led us through the mountains from Etowah, Tennessee, to Bristol, virginia-tennessee, to Ashland and Lexington, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and further, and thus our scope happily expanded to this collection. My task has been to transcribe the stories from the tapes and to organize them in a chronological format. There has been very little editing, for I have tried to keep the style conversational, often at the expense of accepted form. I hope you can hear the story teller that I heard in our recording sessions. As for the drawings I must claim them, but in my defense, I did ask friends who have drawing skills to help, but no! They just couldn't do it. So this is my first attempt at illustration. It's been fun; it's been hard. And once again I heard myself saying, Well, here's another thing you don't know how to do. Get started. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.