During my early days of grade school in Groveland, FL, I remember asking Dad, “What is a Greenback and why is our high school’s team called something like that?” When he told me it was U.S. Currency, I was really disappointed, as I couldn’t understand why we weren’t something more ferocious, i.e. lions, tigers or bears. But, as I grew into becoming a member of this team, I also became proud of the name on our jerseys, although I never fully understood why we were tagged with such a name. Only recently did I learn we got our name from the man who donated large sums of money to build our school near the end of the Great Depression in 1939. When asked what he’d like to name our school he said, “Well, there’s nothing stronger than the U.S. Dollar. Let our school be called, ‘The Groveland Greenbacks.”’
So, a few years ago I wrote a song to share during one of our annual, All Class School Reunions (although the chorus might be a slight case of plagiarism).
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Shortly after becoming a member of NSAI (about 15 years ago), our coordinator for the Tampa Bay Area told our group, "Try to paint a picture with your lyric, i.e. describe the things and accounts of where you grew up and how these matters affected your life." I have many fond memories of the very, small "Mayberry-like" town that shaped my life, and reflecting on these things was like a pleasant trip down memory lane...
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About a cat, the orig story I borrowed from the book "Dewey, the small town library cat" and put it in a new setting. embellished and expanded. by the way if you're a cat person you Must read that book, and be prepared to mop the floor at the end.
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