Recollections

  This is a located in front of the Lawrence County Court House.  This is Hack’s News Stand owned operated by Haskell Moore.  He was always blind and started this...

Penny Post Cards Last week I wrote about writing and sharing of various greeting cards that are useful on many occasions. I focused on ‘get well’ cards, but there were...

Get Well, Soon! It had only been a few generations prior to my coming into this world that mankind employed the art of caring through the social practice of sending...

Valentine I’m sure that everyone remembers those very early experiences dealing with winter’s Valentine’s Day. It was about little red or pink heart-shaped candies with proclamations printed on them. I...

Pinky and Lee Moore Long-time educator Pinkie Moore’s mission is to help underserved children and families succeed In her nearly five decades working in early childhood education and...

Barn Finds! I’m thinking that everyone has memories of romantic situations that excited their dreams and aspirations. Frequently, these pictures of the past contain images of whatever forms of transportation...

Kid’s Land! Confections!!! When I was little it was my dream was to run through grand piles of candies, barefoot of course, throwing those goodies into the air behind me....

Comforts of Home We all know that in life things happen. Some are good, but a few are less so. I dare say that many things happen around us almost...

Disappearing Activities My darling Suzie has gone and done it again! In many ways this normally modern girl is a throwback to a generation or two before her time. She...

This cannon was mounted in front of Mrs. Rice's house on Madison Street, was a working cannon and had concrete in the barrel of it.  In her garage she had...

Can you dig it? I don’t know where or when it started with me, but I do know it is the nature of man to harvest goods they haven’t sowed....

I was thinking about Ben Compton this morning. How devoted he was to his father's news stand, Newspapers were dropped off there that were delivered around Louisa by kids like...

What Six Dollars Can Do Dr. Glenn Mollette  When I was sixteen years old, I was invited to speak at a little country church in rural Denver Kentucky, not far...

Coincidence We, like many families have limited our visits with others during this great pandemic in hopes we might skip catching the dreaded virus that has so quickly attacked the...

Old vs New Year In past years I have written about wild celebrations as we look forward to a New Year. Conditions in this old year remain restrictive beyond our...

Our Christmas Spirit Dr. Glenn Mollette Years ago, our church group was out Christmas caroling. We weren't far from the church and our leader led us out to the back...

When I was growing up I developed a habit of finding time to visit alone with elderly neighbors. One of my purposes was to find out what their childhood was...

Embrace the Christmas Story Dr. Glenn Mollette On the first Christmas Mary and Joseph had traveled to Bethlehem to pay their taxes. They were among a multitude of other people...

Christmas Gifts This is the season that many of the merchants of our little town in the eastern foothills of Kentucky, looked forward to each year. I don’t pretend to...