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D I S K O V E R Y
This month's cover picture has a
long, convoluted history that spans
some 350 years!
The picture began with a photo
taken by [someone] at the LUCKI Expo
2004. After lunch, Sheri and I went
back to the motel and discovered a
gang of Commodoreans lounging in the
lounge. So we lounged, talking about
hardware, software, hackware, and
history. That's when the picture of
yours truly was snapped, later to be
published on the Web.
Arndt Dettke wrote me an email
telling about the new JPG features
recently added to GoDot, and included
this picture as an example. As a 312 x
200 IFLI, it is a great graphic.
Reduced to our 160 x 200 multi-color
format, the dithered blend of color is
lost.
Then just last week, Arndt sent
this combination graphic, created of
GoDot and returned to the JPG format.
He was making sure I didn't mind my
image appearing in the UCUGA Commodore
Digest along with Arndt's lastest
tutorial on using GoDot. I had no
problem with that.
The beauty of having JPG
capabilities with GoDot is that C-64
manipulated images can now be put into
the format PostScript/PostPrint uses
for color graphics output. If you have
seen Commodore Digest, you know that
the reader can not tell that this
publication was produced on a lowly
C=. Before this latest advancement in
GoDot, Dale Sidebottom had to use his
PC to massage the color images.
Anyway, back to the cover graphic.
I don't know where Arndt found the
MoorMan's Feed sign, but it does make
a nice addition to the photo. And here
is where the history goes back 3.5
centuries.
In the 1600's, Zachariah Moorman
was a captian in Cromwell's Model Army
during the English Civil War. He
married Mary Candler, who was a
Quaker. After the restoration of the
Monarchy, being Quaker was not as easy
in England, so Zachariah and his
family moved to the Colonies, winding
up in Virginia.
Mary's father also came to the New
World, and his family settled in
Georgia. Generations later, one Asa
Candler would market a new drink made
with carbonated water and cocaine.
Needless to say, he become emensely
wealthy (even if the cocaine was
removed from the drink). His
contribution to the Methodist Church
established the Candler School of
Theology at Emory University in
Atlanta.
The Moorman family grew and split
in many ways. Samuel Clemens'
grandmother was a Moorman (a fact
about which we are inordinately
proud). And one branch became known in
rural America for marketing minerals
and additives for livestock feed.
My great-grandfather -- a Quaker
-- fought in the Civil War and was not
exactly welcomed back into his
pacifist community. He moved to Kansas
and, after nearly starving trying to
prove a homestead, got a job with the
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
Railroad. His youngest son, my
grandfather, became a seed dealer in a
small Kansas town. My father continued
to operate Moorman Feed and Seed Co.,
Inc. until the demise of small-time
agribusinesses was obvious.
Anyway, that is the history
implied in the cover picture. Which
doesn't really matter much, does it!
Until recently, we Moormans (and
Mormans, Marmans, and Marmas) believed
that we all could trace our ancestory
back to Zach and Mary. But the name is
not unknown in the Netherlands --
perhaps a variation on the German
Mohrmann. Anyway, these Dutch Moormans
have been infiltrating the US for some
time now. We believe it would make
sense for them to just accept our
genealogy and not make a fuss!
DMM