One of my former journalism students responded to my story about my 1949 classmate Fess Parker and his Model-T Ford.
However this Elam-trained journalist asks to remain anonymous. Maybe because he doesn’t want anyone to know he’s so old he’s drawing social security?
He emailed….
Always remembered that the Davy Crockett/ Fess Parker character relied on the slogan, “Be sure you’re right…then go ahead.”
Also the kids in my area memorized the speech in the Disney series in which Crockett/ Fess Parker introduced himself to Congress:
I’m half-horse, half-alligator and a little attached with snapping turtle.
I’ve got the fastest horse, the prettiest sister, the surest rifle and the ugliest dog in Tennessee.
My father can lick any man in Kentucky… and I can lick my father.
I can hug a bear too close for comfort and eat any man alive opposed to Andy Jackson.
My former student added…..
“Sounds presidential, doesn’t it? Fess Parker’s wine is pretty good as well.”
Maybe my teaching drove him to drink?
Photo credit: Country Living Magazine
