Dutchtown Tales

Once I turned 16 and got my drivers’ license, I wanted to drive everywhere. My mother commented that she thought it was great because…

Even the earliest settlers in Georgia grew cotton, usually in small patches. Cotton was harvested by hand, separated from the seed by hand, and…

In the old days, we changed the oil in our vehicles ourselves. The most challenging aspect of the oil change was the maneuvering of…

If you guessed some accountant from the 1930s, you would have been very close to the truth. This photo is of my maternal grandfather,…

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…

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…

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,…

I have been in three school bus wrecks. The worst one is a topic for another day. The other two happened in two different…

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…

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…