About Me
Hi y’all, and welcome to Helena, Alabama. I’m Randall Dickerson, a lifelong Southern resident. If you’d like to read more about me, click here.
My ancestry is Creek, Cherokee, Scottish/English/Irish and (?). I enjoy Genealogy, Family History, Cemeteries, Photography, camping, fishing, kayaking, cooking, Powwows,Front Porches, Sweet Tea, Laughter, Cartography, and Vexillology. My job keeps getting in the way of my hobbies, but I’m working on it.
Occasionally irreverent, frequently irrelevant, politically incorrect with a dash of Southern Hospitality. My goal in life is to be the delightful old Codger that people remember, and a certified Curmudgeon. I’m a firm believer in tongue-in-cheek humor and down-home philosophy. Humor-challenged and nuance-impaired individuals may have problems with this. If you don’t know what that means then you’re either one, the other, or both. Please see a health care professional immediately.
Now for my educational qualifications:
“Randall Dickerson was born in the mid 1950′s to Thomas C and Annie Earline Dickerson in the tiny coal mining village of Bayview, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States.
His Father obtained a MDL (Masters Degree in Living) from the University of Reality while his Mother held a double PHD (Perfect Hygiene – Divinity level) from the Universities of Clorox and Spic-n-Span.
Randall attended Bayview elementary school where he was voted ”most likely to be mediocre” by his peers. Sadly, the trophy was never awarded; no one knew who he was or could recognize him. He went on to attend Dixie Junior High and Minor High School, avoiding notice by hiding somewhere in the marching band. He graduated with a GOH (Get Outta Here!) degree in 1972 and promptly vanished was accepted to the University of Montevallo in Alabama.”
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“At the University, Randall distinguished himself by majoring in girls and “flunking out” in the shortest time on record. Final Score; University 9, Girls 14, Randall -1
From this disgusting distinguished background Randall was quickly drafted by the real world where he received his B.S (you really don’t want to know) from the School of Hard Knocks. Randall survived that ordeal and obtained his Masters in Reality by keeping his family, three children, and way too many pets fed, clothed and sheltered. Randall divorced in 2002 and thus began working on his PHD (Piled Higher and Deeper), also from the School of Hard Knocks, with the help of several particularly nasty attorneys.
In the meantime he graduated from a 2-year training program at the Federal MSHA Academy at Beckley, West Virginia and is attending Marshall University on-line since they won’t let him on the campus grounds.
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Randall loves pretty flowers, fluffy clouds and …”
(sorry! Wrong Biography!)
I hope you enjoy my writing(s) and will come back to visit often. Just pull up a chair and sit a spell! I’ll spin a few yarns, some are even true……maybe!
Randall Dickerson
Fantastic blog and I have just begun reading it.
I had to Google “vexillology”
Look forward to your next post.
Don’t worry, I had to look the word up too! An oddball hobby, maybe, but I enjoy it. By the way, I have the LionRampant but haven’t found a decent Saltire yet. My girlfriend descends from the Robertson Clan and may have roots in Wales also (Welsted).
Randall, I am so glad to have run into you via Charlie Hale. I cannot wait to pour over your blog site. So much to explore here. I love your wit and southern roots. I am especially charmed by “digging up dead relatives since 1988.” We are cut from the same cloth! Rest assured I’ll be back to visit your space often!
The picture of the headstone on I Turra Britt Stone and Richard Lewis Britt. They were brother and sister. My grandfather Winfield Britt was their brother, my grandfather married Lessie Stone who was the sister to I Turra Stone’s husband, W.B. Stone, all from Tallapossa, Alabama.