A Picture and History Lesson
By Bill Shepard I have seen memorials to lost soldiers in other places, in memory of those that were often buried in unmarked graves far from their home, but none are as meaningful to me as the one that stands on the courthouse lawn in my hometown. The picture and story of Darlington’s Confederate Veterans Memorial in the Feb. 4th issue of this paper stirred a bunch of memories in this old writer’s mind. The picture and history lesson...
Old Friends
By Bill Shepard “Make some new friends, Keep your old. One is silver, The other is gold.“ I read the above lines from a plaque that was hanging on the wall at my sister’s house recently. As I read the lines, I gave thought to what I once read that was written by an older man. “If I had known I would live as long as I have, I would have made friends with folk that were younger than I; then when I was old, I would have a lot of...