Christmas gift

[Jim Garrett]

This would be in retribution for the way the Salem Marine Society has treated Adm. Matthew Fountaine Maury, the pathfinder of the seas. He was a great pioneer of mapping the currents and floor of the oceans. He developed sea routes that cut the time to cross the Atlantic in half, saving numerous lives of sailors and savings untold dollars for ship owners. Every day a ship was on the ocean meant risk for ship and crew and was expensive.

Maury was made an honorary member of the Salem Marine Society and his picture was hung in tribute in their board room on the top floor of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem Mass.........until the outbreak of the war of northern aggression. When Maury went South, the society revoked his honorary membership and took his picture on the wall and hung it front facing the wall and upside down.

Please see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFE22UrnNVs

Heath, you are truly a fine Carolina Reconstructed Gentleman along the lines of Col. John Singleton Moseby. Strom would be proud.

Have a Happy New Year.