Jayne, if your father is able, I hope he has seen this thread by now.  It would be absolutely fantastic if he could produce a picture of that stick ...and himself as well!

Say... we could nominate Buldog34 to run down there and meet him. (Buldog is in GA already.)

Talking about how life was then... we have a great topic where you might like to add some things:
  Remembering when (for the over-50 crowd!)