Maurice Cook paints a message of unity Over the last 17 years, you might find folk artist Maurice Cook on the road at the Butterbean Festival in Pinson, where cooks vie for first prize in the Butterbean and Cornbread Cooking Contest and...
Engagements Hastings-Norris
Jeff and Barbara Hastings of Evans, Ga., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Hannah Brooke Hastings, to Jake Grant Norris, the son of Larry and Ginger No...
Taking time to see the September sky In my past life, I didn’t get to spent much time looking at the sky. I worked for MaBell for 33 years, 25 of which were spent in a computer data center that was as cold as a Frigidaire spring, summ...
The Beersdorf family: From Germany to Walker County Few ancestral histories have been as well pieced together as that of the Beersdorf family. This has its beginning in Hamburg, Germany, in 1859 and finds its way to Walker County. Charles Beersdorf ...
Mommy boot camp I recently spent a week at home with my son.
We hadn’t been alone together that long since my maternity leave last spring. I was a little nervous about it.
Shadow dog will be missed Jilda and I have lived next door to her brother Ricky and his wife Debbie for more than 30 years, and living this close gave us an opportunity to participate in the lives of their children James, H...
A week full of ‘senior moments’ It seems this past week I had more “senior moments” than I normally have. I’m sure one of the reasons for the multiple moments of forgetting had to do with my being in a hurry.
Engagements Burton-Ingle
David and Melinda Burton of Jasper are pleased to announce to engagement of their daughter, Kristi Burton, to Lacy Ingle, the son of Ken and Pat Ingle of Nauvoo.
The bride-elect i...
Mama’s cookbook philosophy bears bits of wisdom Several years ago when my brothers and I moved Mama from our family home to a retirement community, one of my tasks was to sort through her cookbooks and decide which ones to keep for her new, tiny...
Downtown stadium; sounds good to me I have been watching with interest what the outcome is going to be reference the new baseball stadium in downtown Birmingham.
A cure for hurting knees My daddy used to have a saying about people who are lucky — “Why he could step in a bucket of cow manure and he’d come out smelling like a rose.”
Engagements Elkins-Marks
Danny and Rita Elkins are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kesia Elkins, to Greg Marks, the son of Bobby Marks and Becky Bonds.
The bride-elect is the grand...
