Recollections

A Dreaded Experience! When I turn on the television I can see clearly that the war with C19 is on everyone’s mind. There’s no doubt it is having its effect...

First Date?  First Date? I mean a ‘real’ date! Oh, we all had those little ‘pretend dates’ where parents set up preschoolers to go to a movie or a party...

Board Games I wasn’t very old when I saw my first game of checkers being played by some men that were truly into the game. It was at a local...

Outside Games We Played In my professional career I have had to attend many leadership seminars which almost always included some team-building activities. This typically involved the introduction of attendees...

After Dinner, Family Time Favorite memories of growing up years were of those very special quiet times when our family, the neighbors, and friends, joined together to relax on the...

Refocusing in Old Age Back in Louisa, when I was but a young child, my focus was on playing, eating, and having fun. As I grew older I came to...

Floods, Events There is a common saying that was based on the Bible that goes like, “Good Lord willing and the Creek don’t rise.” Used as a potential disclaimer of...

Changes in the Kitchen When I first left Louisa and arrived in Virginia, one of the first things I did besides seeing the nearby fabulously reconstructed 17th – 18th Century...

Yarns, tales, and other lessons Throughout my life I have loved listening to stories. It goes back to my childhood with memories that continue to this day. Maybe that’s why...

Click on pic for full documentary 1957 FLOOD DOCUMENTARY   I don’t remember this flooding I was too young, but I did work in many floods with communications. I thought...

First Responders: Firemen, Emergency Medical Technicians My goodness things have changed! Back in my high school years my friends, including Johnny Bill Boggs, Stanly Brown, Johnny Justice, and others were...

James Adkins was writing his book years before he first put words on paper. Children Of The Holler - Growing Up In Rush, Kentucky, by James A. Adkins, recalls a...

January It is January! To some folks this means winter is about over and the days are growing longer. Of course, it is also a time that big snows will...

LONG TIME FORMER WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOL EDUCATOR & OFFICIAL, BUSINESS OPERATOR, WAS HIGHLY REGARDED AND BELOVED RESIDENT THROUGHOUT THE TOWN OF WAYNE AND AREA BEYOND, LEAVES A LONG LASTING POSITIVE...

James (Jimmy) Byron Young   Jimmy was a year younger than many of us in our gang and was not as close as those of our age group. Nonetheless, he...

Winter’s Big Freeze One year I remember that we all felt the effects of the Polar low that pushed down from the Artic. Temperatures fell like crazy and in some...

Happy New Year! Maybe its old age, but I don’t recall much about New Year’s Eve celebrations before the advent of television. It may have been a non-event in my...

Christmas Memories Memories of Christmas of the past are more about the excitement that built up to and defined this season of good will. It was about our celebration of...

Christmas is Almost Here! (First a note of explanation: I sent an article in to Mark last Thursday, two days early, but in the confusion it was a repeat of...