In Remembrance of things past...

In Remembrance of Things Past...

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die,
Steal from this world, and not
A stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope

The Road Less Traveled

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could,
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black,
Yet, I shall save one for another day
But knowing how way leads on to way
I doubt I should ever come back.

And took the other as just as fair
For having perhaps the better claim,
For it was grassy, and wanted wear
Yet, as for passing there
Had worn them really the same.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence,
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I,
I took the road less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.

Mary Anissa Jones 1958-1976

Anissa Pictures: Page One

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While reading an article about Elvis Presley and the latest movie he was making, The Trouble with Girls, I came across an aside about Anissa Jones. Anissa is best remembered as the actress who portrayed "Buffy" on the CBS show Family Affair. The article described how Anissa would play with her pet snakes while waiting for the crew to set up for the next scene. If a ten year old girl wanted to impress an eleven year old boy, Anissa certainly did it the right way: I was impressed: I had never heard of a girl with pet snakes before.
On my wall when I was a child I kept a poster of Robert Frosts' The Road Less Traveled. I was given that poster by my third grade teacher, Mrs. Williams, at East Valley Elementary School in Marietta, Georgia. She was, and is, the best teacher I ever had. I was a very smart kid and that is not an easy thing to be. Mrs. Williams told me that I was going down "the road less traveled", but I should take comfort in the fact that that is the same road others have chosen. It was nothing to be afraid or ashamed of. Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, and Eleanor Roosevelt, just to name a few, are some of those who have made that same choice. She also told me that the happiest day of my life would be the day I met the first person going down that road with me. That person was Anissa Jones for me. A woman who listened to the beat of her own drummer, no matter how measured or far away...

Footnote: Anissa's brother Paul would come to the studio with her. He had nothing to do and was quite bored. Elvis must have noticed, one day he brought a football to the set with him and asked Paul if wanted to catch some passes to help pass the time between shots. Paul said yes and they had a blast. Elvis really was a terrific guy.