Working from the old XP computer, I cannot get the facebook or smug mug transfer button to install. All I can do is send the photographs on this laptop to the blogspot. This is the old pump organ that was in the first church my father ministered at the Berry Methodist Church in northern Kentucky. My sister, who had her 61st birthday on the 14th, was born in Lexington while my father was a ministerial student at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore and student preaching at Berry and Boyd. She, my mother, whose birthday was October 5th, could all play the organ. My father by ear, my mother and sister by note. My father, the Rev Luther Ray Stokes of Homewood, Mississippi passed away in March of 2011. His birthday is tomorrow, October 16th.
The organ has been one of the constant furniture pieces my entire life. It now resides in my sisters living room in Lake City, where we all now live except our younger brother Lewis, who lives in Gainesville. When I was but a little toddler in Sopchoppy, I punched the red velvet covering from the plate below the keyboard.
I think it was Lewis who punched out the filigree later, my father painstakingly replacing it.
It still pumps and plays. Tomorrow perhaps I shall have to visit my sisters house and pump a low note or two, trying to replicate my fathers deep gusto singing.
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