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Rick Watson
Board provides visions of dreams
A few years ago, Jilda convinced me to start keeping vision board. A vision board is a special kind of collage. The collage is made up of words and pictures, the stuff of your dreams. There are pic...
Jul 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
My eyes are on Big Brother
If I were back in college, this week’s column would be about my pretentious TV viewing habits.
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Ruth Baker
Meeting life’s crises as a young woman
Nursing the sick, birthing babies, and laying out the dead — these are a few of life’s crises that were faced on a regular basis in the homes of the early 1900’s. Every mother had either been taugh...
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Marjorie and Ivey Drewry Jr., pictured here at Christmas, graduated from Walker County High School together in 1933. They celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary this month at their home in Huntsville. Photo special to the Eagle
Huntsville couple with Jasper ties celebrate 75th anniversary
Ivey Drewry Jr. remembers Marjorie Stephenson as a “good-looking young lady” in Walker County High School’s Class of 1933.
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Rick Watson
Falling watermelons almost always go splat
The thermometer will be in the upper 90s this Fourth of July and Jilda is not happy. She keeps whining — why don’t we summer in Telluride.
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Jennifer Cohron
Feed His sheep
W.W.J.D. bracelets were everywhere when I was a pre-teen.
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Engagements
Terry-Kyzer Darlene and Danny Vines and Don Terry of Jasper are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Courtney Terry, to Shawn Kyzer, the son of Thomas and Linda Kyzer of Parri...
Jul 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Margaret Dabbs
Coach Ann Trotter: Unsurpassed swim team leadership
Before our boys were born, we listened to our friends talk about the Jasper Swim Team and how much fun their kids had swimming on the team for about two months every summer. Even though their swim ...
Jun 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jeannie Davis Brandon sits in her Jasper home, looking over the equipment that helped her become a well-respected polygraph examiner over the years. - Photo by: Jennifer Cohron
'I firmly believe we all know what the truth is...'
Jasper woman retires after career as polygraph examiner
Jun 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rick Watson
Blackberries are ripe for the pickin’
Sometimes coming up with a decent idea to write about is like finding a close parking space at Walmart when it’s raining.
Jun 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
A wish upon a Waffle House
Several days before my most recent birthday, I decided it might be fun to make a list of things I want to do in my next 25 years.
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Ruth Baker
Early coal history of Sipsey
Coal deposits form a great part of the history of Walker County. Even greater is the story of the wealthy men who poured into the Warrior Coal Basin in search of the “black gold.” They bought up l...
Jun 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rick Watson
Confession from a midnight snacker
I woke up after midnight last week and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I’d been in the middle of a good dream, but once my eyes opened, it vanished like a wisp of breath on a cold morning.
Jun 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
That’s the rest of the story
My son will always be my favorite labor of love. Journey Stories, a special section that is coming out on Thursday, is a close second. Both were months in the making. Both have kept me awake at all...
Jun 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Engagements
Hardin - McGough Mr. and Mrs. Danny Hardin of Lynn, are pleased to announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Malorie Ryan to Cody Miller McGough, son of Becki Gilbert of Jasper, and...
Jun 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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