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1981? The "refrigerator photo"... |
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1987 At Donnie's Conover Estate - the first gathering of what would become a yearly gathering known as "Little Chill"... me, Bob, and Donnie... |
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1987 At the Dutch Village apartment I shared with Pete Davis. Donnie framming on the flattop... |
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1987 At the Dutch Village apartment I shared with Pete Davis. 1st shot: Donna Davis and Donnie. 2nd shot: Sherry Willey, Donnie and Pete Davis hugging Donna Davis. |
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1987, September 25 Pete's apartment, in Charlotte, before a Mick Taylor show... Kneeling (l-r): Wayne, Donnie, me (yellow shirt), and Sherry Willey. Standing (l-r): Fred McFarland, Craig Martin, Mark Pierce, and Bob Davis. |
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1988,
May 7-8 Little Chill 2... |
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1989, May 6 Little Chill 3, at Morse Estate in Conover, NC. Me with the tele, Donnie was probably grabbing another "cold one"... |
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1989, July Donnie and Ethan... |
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1990,
September 4 Little Chill 4, at Morse Estate in Forest City, NC. The Little Chill gatherings always took place on the weekend of the Kentucky Derby... except when Donnie happened to be stuck over there at Crystal City... 2nd shot (l-r): Me, Shaggy Bob Davis, and David Johnson. 3rd shot: I was trying to help Ward, as Carina looked on and advised... 4th shot: Me and Bill Noonan. |
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1991,
May 4 Little Chill 5, at Morse Estate in Forest City, NC. 2nd shot: Me with Ward... |
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1992,
May 2 Little Chill 6, at the lovely Morse Estate in Forest City, NC... |
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1992 At Carina's house in Durham. Ward, Kerri McCaskil, Donnie and Jeff Hart. I think that we had been at a Backsliders show earlier that evening... |
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1993,
May 1 Little Chill 7... |
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1994,
May 7 Little Chill 8, at Morse Estate in Forest City, NC... This turned out to be the last of the Little Chill gatherings... |
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This picture of Donnie appeared on the Little Chill 7 invitation, held May 7 & 8, 1994... |
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Another photo of Donnie that graced several refrigerators... |
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West Gastonia Music & Loan, where Donnie worked for many years... |
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Donnie was a proud father. Every time he came to visit he'd make sure that I had the most recent pictures of his family on my refrigerator... |
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August
25, 1999 As Carina and I returned to Charlotte from a Dwight Yoakam show in Knoxville, Tennessee, we stopped along a sad stretch of North Carolina Highway 29-74 (Kings Mountain Hwy), between I-85 and Gastonia (west of Charlotte). This is the spot where Donnie's van hydroplaned off the road, down an embankment... |
