1) Today would have been Daddy’s 91st birthday. Because it’s raining here today, I think a bit about some of our return drives from the camp on Toledo Bend (two hours in a full station wagon) passing through little towns like Center, Merryville, and Longville, and listening to Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto on the tape deck.
2) Daddy was also an admirer of the actor Frederic March; I only learned this much later in life. While Advise and Consent is a favorite all-star cast political thriller for me, Daddy introduced me to Seven Days in May, which stars Frederic March as a US President who faces a coup from high-ranking military officers. Both films are worth a look right now, as well as Inherit the Wind, a dramatic retelling of the Scopes Monkey Trial with March as William Jennings Bryan and Spencer Tracy as Clarence Darrow.
2a) You have your viewing assigments. Now get on with it! :-)
3) Like all the Dimmicks, he had an expansive smile and an open heart, but he was also more intellectual than he was given a platform for in his life or his business. The New Thought of the 19th century — propounded by Charles Fillmore and now put forward by Unity — was where he found his true spiritual fulfillment.