Here are the 7 chapters from the video presented at the “Pansy Faye Childers & Gettys Smith Teague Family Reunion” in 2008. For best viewing results remember to click on the “full screen” button on the lower right of the screen.

Childers / Teague Family Reunion – Chapter 1

Childers / Teague Family Reunion – Chapter 2

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This Sunday I went to a memorial for my cousin Gerry Kay Talton who passed away on September 15, 2009. Afterwards I thought that I would like to share some pictures I took of her with family from my photo gallery. I hope you enjoy and feel free to leave comments below or in the photo gallery.
 
Gerry Kay Talton – September 17, 1941 – September 15, 2009
(click on picture to see full size image in the photo gallery)

Gerry Kay with Terry at my parent's 48th anniversary.	Sarah with Gerry Kay.	Dana and Margie with Gerry Kay at Edna's 75th birthday party.

I’ve resurrected the photo gallery however all titles, comments and ratings are gone. If interested you can add information via the comment system. Also feel free to rate the photos and albums via the rating system.

There are more pictures then before, including some never before seen pictures, like these Thanksgiving treats or this album of Harley Davidson pictures.

I’ve debated long and hard about bringing back the photo gallery. The reason is that I consider all my pictures copyrighted by me and I don’t want them posted on other web sites, especially social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. The reason for this is that when you post pictures to these sites you agree to their TOS and give them full control of what they can do with these pictures. They can sell these pictures, use them in their advertisements or sell them to third party advertisers, all without the copyright owners permission.

If you want to share any pictures on this web site please provide people with a link to the page on this site with the photo. Thanks for your understanding.

Arthur C. Clarke, December 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008

Today is a very sad day for me. One of the greatest Science Fiction writers of our time, Arthur C. Clarke has died in a hospital in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age of 90. According to Reuters “He died of respiratory complications and heart failure doctors linked to the post-polio syndrome that had kept him wheelchair-bound for years.”

Many of you may remember him as the author of ’2001: A Space Odyssey‘, but he was also well known for writing over 100 Science Fiction novels, among them ‘Childhoods End‘, ‘Rendezvous with Rama‘ and the two sequels to 2001, 2010: Odyssey Two and ‘2061: Odyssey Three‘. He also wrote many short story collections and many non-fiction books.

Not only was he a prolific Science Fiction writer, he was also a prolific Science writer. In 1945 he published a paper entitled ‘Extra-Terrestrial Relays – Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?’ in ‘Wireless World’ magazine. In this article he described how a rocket (satellite) orbiting the earth at 22,300 miles would appear stationary to the earth below and could serve as a relay station to radio waves, providing a world-wide communications network. 25 years later this became a reality that we enjoy to this day and is the backbone for such services as GPS Satellite navigation, Global Tele-Communications, etc.

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