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Ruth Baker
‘I wish I may, I wish I might...’
I am entering another kind of writing. Since it is Christ-mas month and everyone is in a wishing mood, I will give a warning about wishing. It is light and make-believe.
Dec 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
Yes, Jennifer, there is a Santa Claus
I have disowned my hometown as many times as I have defended it over the years.
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“Gone With The Wind at 75: A Diamond Jubilee” includes artifacts that range from original costume pieces and signed copies of the book to whimsical items like sock monkeys and GWTW toilet seats. Photo by: Jennifer Cohron
Gadsden exhibit celebrates 75 years of ‘Gone With The Wind’
The largest display of “Gone with the Wind” memorabilia ever assembled in the United States will soon join the Old South as no more than a dream remembered.
Dec 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
Making business cents
Zac thanks me occasionally for not being a high maintenance woman. I cause him quite a headache when it comes to special occasions, though.
Dec 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rick Watson
Losing time
At my age, I can ill afford to lose any time, but I lost a day this week. No, it wasn't an anomaly in the space/ time continuum, and I certainly was not traveling faster than the speed of light. It...
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Ruth Baker
Thanksgiving on the farm
Thanks-giving on the farm usually meant hog-killing time. The boys filled the wash pots with water and built fires under them early in the morning. A big barrels was placed into a slanted hole in...
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Margaret Dabbs
Defining “Southern” through a famous chef and a new friend
The granddaughter of a freed slave, Edna Lewis was born in Freetown, Va., in 1916. She grew up in the kitchens of her mother and her aunts where preparing food from the crops they grew and the offe...
Nov 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Weddings
McCollum-DeBardeleben Margaret Kathleen McCollum and Whitney DeBardeleben Jr. were married on Saturday, the thirtieth of July at six thirty in the evening. The wedding took place at The Church...
Nov 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ruth Baker
Outhouses of the early 1900s
When coal was discovered in our area, there were thousands of immigrants flowing into the various sites of underground mines’ opening.
Nov 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
What’s new, Scooby-Doo?
I didn’t have a favorite cartoon character growing up.
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Rick Watson
Staying together
I got a chance to interview Jake and Margaret Monte of Home-wood this week.
Nov 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jennifer Cohron
Our daily bread
I thought that I was thankful.
Nov 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ruth Baker
Games farm children played
Farm children in the South had to make their toys and create games to play during rare play time. The coin had two sides — ingenuity on the one side and “make do” on the other.
Nov 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rick Watson
Time to give thanks already here
It just occurred to me that I’m running out of year. I woke this morning to the sound of a thunderstorm stomping its way through Empire. All the dogs became antsy and wanted on the bed with us, bu...
Nov 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Margaret Dabbs
Thanksgiving celebration rewards us with many pleasures
These last several weeks in Novem-ber have presented us with wonderful remind-ers of the amazing glory of an Alabama fall.
Nov 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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