“Listen… do you hear the train coming?” When I was a kid, my Uncle Gene Strickland would ask me that question whenever we were outside and we would hear the Seaboard Coast Line trains rolling through Youngsville, NC, some five miles to the west. Forty years later I still listen for trains, so when I …
I’m hanging out in Spartanburg, South Carolina for the next week. It’s downright chilly here (the high was only 76)! A month or so back, Curtis Caffey suggested we visit the church and cemetery in Salty, and a few weeks back we did just that. It was a lovely day, and we saw a pair …
Jackrabbit at Salty Community Church and Cemetery Read More »
Folks can’t agree on how to say it, but one of my earliest memories was picking up pecans from the tree outside my bedroom window when I was a kid. It was much safer than picking up peaches from the peach trees, too. The peach trees attracted yellow jackets and other such creatures that I …
“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.” It was probably some time in the late seventies that I first noticed the painting hanging in the hallway of the church that my family attended when I …
The present Milam County Courthouse was completed in 1892 and is the fourth courthouse to serve the county.