Friday, December 21, 2007

The Country Store and Christmas

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Before I begin today’s topic of the former Country Store and its part in helping people to celebrate Christmas, I have another correction to...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

The poor man's friend (A story of Christmas past)

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The wind whipped around the side of the boxcar as Cyril Townsend jumped from the open doorway. He hoped none of the railroad workers at the ...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

The Miracle of Brasstown Valley: a Book Review

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Governor/Senator Zell Miller has done it again. He has written his seventh book, and has managed within its pages to turn history into a pag...
Thursday, December 6, 2007

The Country School and Christmas

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My first seven years of school were spent at Choestoe School, the two-room "new" building that replaced the old two-story faded gr...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

William Harrison Jackson- from Choestoe to Colorado

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This true episode is how a person born near the end of the nineteenth century went out from Union County seeking his fortune. His name was W...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Giving Thanks -- 2007

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I have a delightful hour once each month on the third Thursday afternoon. I refer to the Learning-in-Retirement (its acronym is LIR) class t...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Praying for Rain

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Would it not be a welcome sight this November, with a long dry summer and fall behind us, if we could look up and see rain on the mountains,...