[Granville-Hough] publishing stories

[Trustees and Executors for Granville W. Hough]

Today's message is a replay of correspondence between Granville and 
Elizabeth Pulley on a subject many have asked about, publishing the stories of
Smith County and vicinity.    As indicated I will be putting them on
the granville-hough.oakapple.net website, but I think anybody may
use them.    In a situation like that, for persons interested in copyright,
I think you can copyright your own arrangement or editing of source material
but not the source material itself. 

David Hough

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Elizabeth Pulley wrote:
> Dear Granville,   We are immensely enjoying your stories and 
> observations on current and past events.  Members of my family have 
> been wondering whether there is a plan to keep these communications in 
> some form for future reference.  Cathy, April and I read them 
> regularly and Lydia's secretary records them for future reference.     
> We wonder, though, if there are other plans for their use.
> April has been visiting me for several days and we have been talking 
> about and rereading some of these compositions and having a wonderful 
> time doing  it ....
>        Although I visited Smith County only a few times.. and those 
> times were many many years ago, I can see again in my mind so many 
> images of my childhood visits.
>    I have a couple pictures of you when you visited New Haven from 
> West Point.  I also have  a studio picture of your father (wearing a 
> hat) perhaps in his thirties.  Do you have one similar?
>
> With kindest regards and keep up the good work,
>
> Elizabeth Richardson Pulley

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:43:25 -0700
From: Granville W Hough <gwhough at oakapple.net>
To: Elizabeth Pulley <Tishpulley at mac.com>,
        Cathy Ballard <catherinepballard at hotmail.com>,
        AP Sayre <APSayre at aol.com>,
Subject: Re: Archiving Your Messages

>    I will pass this message on to my children, David and Bonny, as I 
> do not know their feelings on the subject.  When I started, it was 
> just a way to let them know each day that I was alive and functioning, 
> and I did not even try to include a message each day.  Then last New 
> Year's day, I had passed the 50 percentile of survivors of bone marrow 
> cancer, so I changed to a daily message as I hardly expected to last 
> through the year.  I have completed messages through 31 Dec, so they 
> can complete the year if I do not.  I do have a written copy of every 
> message, but it is so I will not repeat myself this year.  I do reuse 
> old messages from several years back when they fit what I am thinking 
> and dreaming about.
>    David does have the picture of 
> my father in his hat, and of me, and of him, David.  The three 
> pictures look like the same person, at different ages.
>    Bonny and Nancy both have done extensive writing, but Bonny would 
> be more likely to want to select some stories and publish them.
>    As I hold no copyright, I do know that some of the stories have 
> been passed on and on.  Actually that is what I hoped would be done.  
> As you recall, Sullivan's Hollow is a place so indistinctive in 
> appearance that when you tell people who you are, and they don't throw 
> you out, you must have reached your ancestral home.  We had both the 
> good and bad, but some human dramas are worth recording.     I try to 
> give credit when I use the work of someone else, but I cannot remember 
> the sources.  .
>    If neither David nor Bonny want to get involved in a publishing 
> project, then I would be quite honored if your daughters picked it 
> up.  With my regards, Granville

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> I now have replies from David and Bonny.  David tells me 
> I do have copyright on all the stories for which I am the original 
> author, and I try to give credit to others when I use their work  So I 
> can give rights to all my stories as I wish.  Bonny has publishing 
> projects of her own which she wishes to finish so she opts out.  David 
> would like to put the stories on the oakapple web site, and we have 
> begun that project.  It will also include some of the comments I 
> received on the stories.  They will not be as much by date as by 
> categories such as Religious, Sullivan stories, McAlpin stories, Thule 
> stories, Military stories, Farm stories, etc. We may change as we go. 
> I can give you rights to using any of the stories in whatever way you 
> had in mind.  Once earlier, you were suggesting combining the stories 
> with pictures so young people could see the farms, farm houses, barns, 
> and land forms, people, and woods which are implied.  That was more 
> than I thought I had time to do, but I do think it would be helpful.  
> So as you consider what you wish to do, I will continue to recall and 
> write.  With my regards, Granville.