April 12, 2021 King Cotton, White Gold Even the earliest settlers in Georgia grew cotton, usually in small patches. Cotton was harvested by hand, separated from the seed by hand, and…
April 5, 2021 Hazardous Material In the old days, we changed the oil in our vehicles ourselves. The most challenging aspect of the oil change was the maneuvering of…
March 29, 2021 Who is it? If you guessed some accountant from the 1930s, you would have been very close to the truth. This photo is of my maternal grandfather,…
March 22, 2021 A Little History I’m taking a detour from my typical stories to talk about the history of the Dutchtown area. All of the areas around here were…
March 15, 2021 The Party Line In an age where most people must be within a few feet of their phones, it’s easy to forget how much phone service has…
March 8, 2021 Finding Emily One afternoon several years ago, I was running on my treadmill in the garage. Between the treadmill’s noise and the radio I had blasting,…
March 1, 2021 1970s Bus Wreck I have been in three school bus wrecks. The worst one is a topic for another day. The other two happened in two different…
February 22, 2021 What is it? No, it’s not a yard ornament, although that was mostly what it was by the time I was growing up. It seemed like there…
February 15, 2021 The President and Me I started running in the 1980s, and by the late 1980s, I started doing races. I wasn’t great, but I would place in my…
February 8, 2021 Dirt Roads & Dewberries Dirt roads were plentiful around here when I was growing up. You had to take things a little slower on dirt roads. If you…