Thursday, June 17, 2004

In Tribute to Our 40th President, Ronald Wilson Reagan

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Regardless of your political affiliation, you no doubt were greatly touched, as was I, by the state funeral of our 40th president, Ronald Wi...
Thursday, June 10, 2004

William Jasper Cotter and Cherokee Removal

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Two weeks ago this column told of the Rev. William Jasper Cotter, Methodist Episcopal Church South minister, who was sent to a charge in 184...
Thursday, June 3, 2004

A Gold Prospector Named Hamby

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Stories abound about those who hoped to make their fortune from gold found in Union County mines. One told by the late Preston Turner and R...
Thursday, May 27, 2004

Gold Mining in Union County

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“There’s gold in them thar hills!” The cry is not too grammatically correct, but that early pronouncement of prospectors reverberated throu...
Thursday, May 20, 2004

A Mother's Love Defied the Bonds of Death: A Mountain Story

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This morning is cloudy and dark. The overcast sky puts me in mind of days in the mountains in my childhood when the clouds hung low and fog ...
Thursday, May 13, 2004

Mother's Day and Children's Day

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Travel back with me through the mists of time to the country church many of you readers attended when you were children and during your grow...
Thursday, May 6, 2004

Salute to a Special Lady - Mrs. Dora Hunter Allison Spiva

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It’s not unusual to pick up a Union County newspaper and see a picture of a lovely lady, nearly a centenarian now, judging a Garden Club sho...