June 21, 2021 A Tale of Two Z Trees There is a very famous tree in the Everglades known as the Z tree that thousands of people have photographed. People have driven for…
June 14, 2021 Smoking Through the Years I like to look back at newspapers from 100 years ago to get a perspective on how much has changed in the past century….
June 7, 2021 To Catch A Thief Roughly 15 years ago, a young man moved in across the street. A week or so later, he came over and introduced himself. He…
May 31, 2021 Who Is It? As many of you know, this is Rev. Edward Hager. This photo was cropped out of one of my wedding photos, taken on August…
May 24, 2021 Two Boys and a Funeral I saw a meme that defined a boy as “noise with dirt on it.” That’s a pretty good definition of my childhood, perhaps more…
May 17, 2021 Electrification Almost 85 years ago, on May 20, 1936, President Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act. At the time, only about 3% of Georgia farms…
May 10, 2021 Reaping Where We Did Not Sow Back in the 60s and 70s, they awarded these pins for Sunday School attendance. I’m not talking about today’s culture where everyone gets an…
May 3, 2021 Billy Ray and Jennifer Twenty-nine years ago, Billy Ray Cyrus broke into the Country Top 40 with his song ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ coming in at #28. By the…
April 26, 2021 What is it? When I was a boy, we had a couple of these. I don’t know anyone who grew tobacco around here, but this is a…
April 19, 2021 Under Arrest Once I turned 16 and got my drivers’ license, I wanted to drive everywhere. My mother commented that she thought it was great because…