Recollections

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...

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...