For America, this seems to be another ‘time of testing’
There are times, in the lives of people and nations, when conditions may seem extremely difficult.
For me, this is spider lily time in the South
Come May-June, I burn the Rocky Shoals Highway up.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Special section brought back Society Hill memories
I want to thank Bobby Bryant, Brian Gandy and any others who contributed to the special edition on Society Hill. Although a Dovesville boy, I had a very special relationship with Society Hill through school (St. David’s Academy) and Welsh Neck Baptist Church and many friends I have known over the years from Society Hill. As a 6th-grade student in Mrs. Fred Auman’s class in 1958, there was always this older guy hanging around outdoors...
Folk medicine? Well, it did cure folks
Like the Black Crowes’ “Remedy,” and its line, “I need a remedy,” folks of yesteryear needed remedies and they came up with them.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let’s remember the legacy of Jim and Billie Hardee
My most vivid memory of the Hardees was the year of the Durant Children’s Center’s “Cookies and Cocoa with Santa” event at the Center at 226 S. Irby St. in Florence where Jim was a most convincing Santa and Billie was an equally perfect Mrs. Claus.