Recollections

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...

Christmas is Coming!    Black Friday may have come and gone, but the shopping season is just heating up! The interesting thing is that we are in the middle of...

Pulled Pork For some reason I got into the Christmas spirit while having a bite to eat at the Smokehouse. It may have been all the decorations with pine ropes...

Marriage Suzie and I have been busy during the days but in the evenings, after supper, we have begun what is a fairly new tradition of watching Hallmark movies. While...

Happy Thanksgiving! This week we will be celebrating a holiday that is meant to recognize the blessings of a good life. It is a time to reflect on family and...

Grocers Since this column is about memories, it stands to reason that most of what I write about are from my experiences. Often, my memories are really deeper than I...

Wake Up! It’s Veterans Day   Thinking back, I’m pretty much of the opinion that mankind is constantly faced with war. Nearly every generation has had their opportunity to renew...

WWll December 8, 1941. Day after Pearl Harbor Attack. Monday November 4-15th from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and also on Saturday the 9th and 16th...

Restaurants Eating out!  This is a declaration everybody likes to hear. It was indeed a rare thing for my family to spend a red cent at restaurants, soda bars, or...

Barber Shops I remember only three barber shops in my little home town. Maybe there were more but this brain can’t come up with any other than one on Main...

News stands When I recently grabbed a magnifying glass to see some details in a picture of the Bargain Store on the corner of Main Cross and Main my eye...

Filling Stations Recently, I stopped to fill my gas tank up with gasoline during my commute to work. In keeping with how things are today, it was, of course, self-service....