Rock Wall

I was cruising through Virginia Ryan Strain’s “Peek at the Past” in our Centennial issue and the first item I found was her article about the origins of the Rock Wall which she said was built twice to keep Main Street from washing into the Park. When I was a kid, when we drove through

While going through the some 3,000 emails that hit my inbox last week, I found a few gems to share with you. -Facebook post from Charlotte Ann Covert Arnold: Murder is illegal. Attempting murder is illegal. A felon owning a gun is illegal. Shooting people indiscriminately is illegal. Using firearms in a criminal manner is

I heard part this a couple of times on TV on Memorial Day. I wasn’t quick enough to jot it down, but Gwen found it on the internet for me. Have you ever been in a cemetery and saw coins on headstones? A coin left on a headstone lets the deceased soldier’s family know that

I had to have help getting the fishing report into a format my computer could read. Actually, I had three typos in the entire report and my computer wouldn’t let me correct them. So what did I do? Kimball had the cell phone number of the guy, Eliott Carpenter, who found the program for me

I was looking through previous issues of the Rock Wall when I ran across the one where I told Mark Koca, then superintendent at Humansville, about the upcoming vacancy in our leadership position and told him he should throw his hat in the ring. He said he might do that. I wrote then that when

You are invited to a fish fry benefit fundraiser p.m. 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday. May 13, in Fair Haven Park. Menu: Tasty fried fish and hush puppies, baked beans and cole slaw along with homemade bread and butter. Dessert: Freshly cranked ice cream and home made pies. Your freewill donations go to Stoney

I start each Sunday watching the Old Fashion Gospel Hour while I eat breakfast. It is aired at 7 a.m. on Channel 27. We set our TV to record it and we watch it at 8 a.m. The program is sponsored by about 25 Missionary Baptist Churches in Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana. Marlon Collins told

Just got the bad news Monday afternoon about former superintendent Mark Koca who passed away in a Springfield hospital Monday. His family will make arrangements Tuesday at Bland-Hackleman according to Brent Bland. Our condolences to the family. Mark was always fair to me and the newspaper. He had a dry sense of humor so you

Spring turkey season started Monday morning without Davis and me. I didn’t feel like walking, he thought it was too cold. That, and he broke a spring on his shotgun a year ago and didn’t bother to have it fixed. A lot of years ago I didn’t have a turkey gun or more than one

You can learn a lot about medicine from doctor shows. And in my case, I always preface my diagnosis with “I’m practicing without a license.” Y’all know that Kenny has spent a lot of time in the hospital and he just finished a three week Medical “incarceration” – First week at CCMH, second week at