Recollections

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....

Department Stores Out of a sense of fairness I feel compelled to write something that starkly contrasts with the writing concerning hardware stores. You may recall that I more or...

"Our Mom, Merica Skaggs Branham, as a gorgeous young miss out on a date in the early 1930s. She is with her suitor, the legendary Dr. Cratis Williams of Blaine...

Hardware Stores There’s an unwritten theory (until now) that sometime before our birth but while we were developing in Heavenly realms, we soon-to-be-people attended a mandatory basic training course called...

Corduroy Roads, Bridges and Things People my age made it into the world at just the right time. We saw amazing changes in every areas of our lives. The things...

Old Cars It’s kind of a funny thing, you know. I have never seen myself as a ‘car guy.’ What I mean is cars to me were always just a...

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 together. Those were...

LABOR DAY A year ago I wrote this history of a day that was more of a mystery. That is, not too many folks understood the origins of Labor Day....

Tin Roofs If you’ve never heard the sound of rain on a tin roof, you probably didn’t grow up before the end of the twentieth century. Metal roofs were all...

Huntington, the Big City When I was growing up I was reminded many times that I had been born in Huntington rather than in Louisa. My mother lived in Louisa...

County Schools A few years ago a reader suggested that I write about one-room schoolhouses. Since I was a ‘town boy,’ I have always thought that since I didn’t have...

Community Schools I’ve been busy behind the scenes researching all I can on the subject often called, “One-room Schools.” The first problem I discovered is that despite their classification, they...

Wrapping  An archaic word that was often used back in the day came to my mind recently. We hardly ever, and maybe never, see the ‘old ways’ once used to...

" Never Leave A Man Behind " Frank Kincaid (Commander)  American Legion Post # 89 Louisa, Ky   James Barnette (Commander) VFW Post #6103 Louisa Ky   Writen By: Commander...

On September 6, 1875, two men walked into the Bank of Huntington with their revolvers drawn. Two others kept guard outside. The four men left the bank with $20,000 and...