Showing posts with label Dyer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dyer. Show all posts
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Appalachian Values and Some People Who Exemplify Them

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Senior scholar, Loyal Jones, a native of nearby Cherokee County, North Carolina, and for many years director of Appalachian Studies at Berea...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Singing in the Cotton Mills or Mountain Music from the Sweat Factories

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In these parts, Union, Towns, Fannin and surrounding counties in North Georgia and also in nearby Tennessee and North Carolina, we like what...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

A Tribute to Congressman Edgar Lanier Jenkins

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Union County, Georgia can be justifiably proud of one of her native sons, Congressman Edgar Lanier Jenkins. He grew up in the county, was ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Christmastime and World War II Recollections

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December 7, 1941 was, as then-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated in addressing the nation, “a day of infamy.” Those still living w...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Doing Our Part to Bring Thanksgiving to Many: or a Venture into Raising Turkeys on Our Farm

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How my father learned about the availability of baby turkeys that he could order-off for and have delivered by rural mail carrier to our far...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Lard Pail Lunches and Shared Knowledge (or Life in a Country School ~ Part 3)

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Through the past two columns, I have shared memories of attending and teaching my first year in the same country school. I hope this journey...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Lard Pail Lunches and Shared Knowledge (or Life in a Country School ~ Part 2)

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Attending a country school for the first seven grades of my education and then returning to the same school to teach my first year as an edu...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Lard Pail Lunches and Shared Knowledge (or Life in a Country School ~ Part 1)

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Choestoe School in Union County, Georgia, 1936 through 1943 has a special place in my memory, in things I love, and in who I became in life....
Saturday, October 8, 2011

Repeated Given Names Often Confuse Genealogy Searchers ~ Or: Which Person Do You Mean?

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This week I’ve spent time back-tracking to an article I wrote for this column on June 2, 2005 about John Little Ingram’s family. He was my g...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

On the Farm – Planting, Cultivating and ‘Laying By’ (And Celebrating the 4th of July and Attending Protracted Meeting)

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Last week’s column was on the subject of fertilizing, turning (plowing) the land, harrowing it, and getting ready to plant crops. On the far...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Summer Daddy Found the Spring (A True Story Remembered)

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It was a hot dry summer, much like this May and June 2011 has been. Water was scarce, and crops looked pitiful in the fields. To complicate ...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Mary Self Squires, Noted Educator, Began Her Career at Henson One-Room School, Choestoe (Self Family, Part 3)

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For two weeks we have traced early settlers to Union County, Georgia bearing the last name Self. As we observe in April, “Teaching Career Mo...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

SALUTE TO A SAINTLY MAN

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Rev. Grover Duffie Jones October 5, 1925 – January 26, 2011 Early on Wednesday morning, January 26, 2011, my beloved husband of sixty-one y...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Keeping Christmas All Year Long

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To faithful readers everywhere, my wish for you is that the joy of Christmas may follow you throughout 2011. What may we do to renew the spi...