Recollections

America’s Holiday! When I think of Independence Day, I remember from my earliest days that July 4th is the day we celebrate our independence from the abuse of the then...

Finding A Place Some of my earliest memories of growing up was of times that I discovered new places. As a toddler it was a room I’d never been in,...

Characters! I suppose every little town has its characters. Watching Mayberry, or Andy Griffith, we see a whole lot of people, all of them characters. Whether we’re watching Gomer, or...

Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation acquires Norfolk Southern SD40-2 Locomotive   Irvine Ky - On Thursday, Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (KSHC) announced that they have acquired SD40-2 locomotive number 6162 from...

Sweet Living! Life can be sweet, don’t you agree? Like many readers who grew up in the era when life was sometimes more than just meat and vegetables. There were...

Ice Cream! I just read in the Lazer that a new Dairy Queen is going to open in hopes of attracting families to enjoy the treat of ice cream. When...

Eating Out In retrospect, when I was growing up, I soon enough understood that money in our household was limited. As a result, it was a very rare thing to...

Warrant Officer Charles S. Jones of Louisa I would like to honor everyone on this Memorial Day 2020 with all that is going on. I mainly...

Memorial Day!    This year takes the cake, my friends. When I was growing up, holidays were great time to celebrate, take time off from work, and have family gatherings....

Some things remain the same this Memorial Day with the stock market, post offices and most banks being closed on Monday the 25th in observance of the holiday. And with...

Carnivals and Fairs I remember a wonderful thing that happened in the summers when I was growing up. This was a time when traveling carnivals visited and offered thrills on...

Movies, or How we learned about life When I was a child there was a form of entertainment that made a big difference in how I saw the world. Movies...

To the Roller Rink! When I was a teenager growing up in our sweet picturesque little town, I spent a lot of time in a newly built long building that...

Telephones  Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell workers in the early days were kept busy installing telephone poles and switchboards all around the villages, towns, and populated areas in the hills...

Smoke  I had almost forgotten the almost hourly invasion that was visited upon us by the C&O Railway back in the day. It was such a routine thing that I...

Easter, 2020, Cabin Fever! That’s right! History is in the making right here in our lives again. No one would have guessed that America’s churches would be shuttered on Easter!...

Dear PCPC family, as we suspend our normal church activities for the sake of loving our neighbors and limiting the spread of COVID-19, we want to encourage one another to...

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...