Showing posts with label Reece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reece. Show all posts
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Appalachian Values and Some People Who Exemplify Them (part 3)

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We have looked at Appalachian Values as specified by Loyal Jones in his book, Appalachian Values (Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994) and listed...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Pierre Chastain, the Immigrant, and His Continuing Influence Part 4 Learning from the Past – Shaping the Future

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Jason Coward Chastain (March 10, 1818 – June 12, 1900) was of the sixth generation from Pierre “The Immigrant” Chastain, a son of John C. Ch...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

On the Farm ~ Plowing the Land for Planting

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On June 4, 2011 the 8th annual meeting of the Byron Herbert Reece Society met at the Reece Farm and Heritage Center. I wrote about that in m...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Preserving Reece Legacy Celebrated at 8th Annual Society Meeting

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The weather was already hot, even in the “cool” mountain region in the shadow of Blood and Bald Mountains in North Georgia on Saturday, June...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Reece Caught the Essence of Christmas with Certain Poems

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December. We celebrate Christmas. The air is full of Christmas carols coming from every store, television set and radio, from church choirs ...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Reece's Poem "Autumn Mood" Sets Tone for Fall

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Union County can be justifiably proud of her native son, Byron Herbert Reece, poet and novelist, born September 14, 1917 to Juan Wellborn Re...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Militia Districts in Union County

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The state of Georgia is divided into 159 counties. Within each county are further subdivisions called Militia Districts. Union County is div...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Office of Justice of the Peace and Notary Public Focusing on Robert Lee Nelson, JP

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The offices of justice of the peace and notary public were perhaps more important in the earlier days of our county that today. Before conve...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

A Tribute to Elizabeth Reed Berry, Teacher and Friend

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Delightful task! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.” -James Thomson (1700-1748 – from “The Seasons—Spring” T...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Spring in Appalachia –The Service (Sarvis, Sorbus) Tree Blooms

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In spring in Appalachia we look through eyes of winter’s lingering to see signs of renewal. Stretching up our mountainsides are trees with s...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Beyond the Mountain Haze

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Charles Weymon Cook shown with Mrs. Dora Hunter Allison Spiva at her 104th birthday celebration in February, 2009. He read a poem in tribute...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Reece Family Afterthoughts (Part 7 in Reece Family Series)

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To Bobby Josiah Queen, current citizen of Union County and a person vitally interested in family roots, thank you for the volume of informat...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Two Byron Herbert Reece Poems (Reece Family Series, Part 6)

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Last week’s column gave a summary of the family of Juan Wellborn and Emma Lance Reece. Their son, Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958) became the...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Reece Family in Union County, GA (part 5): The Family of Byron Herbert Reece, Poet and Novelist

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J uan Wellborn Reece and Hannah Emma Lou Lance Reece Family, about 1925. On Emma's lap is Emma Jean Reece (b. March 29, 1923). Standin...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Reece Family in Union County, GA (part 4): Poet Byron Herbert Reece's Ancestors

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The aim of the Byron Herbert Reece Society is to perpetuate and make known the poetry and prose of Union County’s accomplished poet and nove...