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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...
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Rick Watson
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...
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Ruth Baker
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 ...
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Jennifer Cohron
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.
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Eugene Allen Smith sits at his desk at the University of Alabama in the late 1800s. Photo special to the Eagle
Geologist’s work contributed to Alabama’s economic recovery
Geologist Joseph Holmes once urged Alabama legislators and university trustees to help his peer Eugene Allen Smith all that they could with his work.
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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...
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Jerome Wassmann
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.
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Jennifer Cohron
September’s silver lining sure to shine through
I usually see the glass as half empty. In fact, I’m the kind of person who looks for cracks in a full glass.
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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...
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Margaret Dabbs
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...
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Jerome Wassmann
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.
Sep 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
Harps in the willows
I did an odd thing a couple of weeks ago — I went to the Pig.
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Rick Watson
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.”
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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...
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Engagements
Jett-Wilson Josh Wilson and Brittney Jett are pleased to announce their engagement. The prospective groom is the son of David Wilson Sr. of Cordova and Julie Wilson of Quinton. He is the grandson...
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