" What's in a name? "

When I was a little boy growing up in Pascagoula, Mississippi, my mother took me to Gipsons department store on Hwy 90. I was about three or four years old and somehow I was seperated from my mother; I was lost in the store. Wondering around in that big store alone and scared.... a voice high up in the sky said 'little boy are you lost?' I looked up and I said yes! She then asked me what my name was and I said.... Charles Maxwell Powell, Jr. Rawhide!! lol.... And then she announced that Charles Maxwell Powell, Jr. Rawhide was lost and my mother could come get me. I had an uncle that nicknamed me " Rawhide " and I thought that was my name.

As I have grown over the years I always knew who I was..... but, "Rawhide was not my real name!! lol.