Small towns had stores called, “Grocery Stores,” that sold more than food. We had two stores in my village named after the founder, Philip “Gordon.” Both stores sold food, and they catered to farmers with harness, fly nets, milk buckets, and all the things the local farmers needed. The store at the south end...
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I remember, a bookstore. In a small southern town. A town with no grocery store, no gas station, and no apparent means of sustaining its existence except for weekend tourists from a nearby college town. In this town were several antique stores, an ice cream parlor and an old bookstore. There may have been...
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Warren Schimpff is torn between the English toffee and the bourbon balls.
Jill Schimff is certain about the dark chocolate peanut cluster with the vanilla creme center.
But while they differ on their favorite candies, the husband and wife team is of one mind on how to keep Schimpff’s Confectionery in downtown Jeffersonville a sweetly successful...
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Growing up in south Florida always seemed to provide our family with plenty of fun and adventure. This particular day I am about to tell you of was no exception.
My dad worked many long hours in a large orange grove near Arcadia, FL . His job involved working on a backhoe to help clear the...
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Way back in the early 1970’s , back when I was just a wee girl, and back when times could be lean in the Deep South for a family of 7. My dad was a hunter.
Now, not everything that he hunted did he have legal rights to hunt, but…he had a family to support,...
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As a child growing up in Nebraska, going to church was a very important part of my upbringing. Every Sunday morning my parents, along with all their seven children, of whom I am the youngest, would dress in our Sunday best, pile into our blue Impala Station Wagon and be at church before Sunday...
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By Cherie Thomas Schenker
Being separated from a loved one is never easy, whether it is a spouse, child or good friend. For some, absence makes the heart grow fonder. For others, absence creates a gap that can never be bridged. But, why do we let that gap grow?
I recently finished a book called “The...
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Contributed By Janet Gresham
Back in my hometown of Greensboro, Alabama, catfish was ”in” before catfish was king.
Those were the days when Mustangs were cooler than pickup trucks, when teenage girls swooned over singer Tom Jones and before Barbara Mandrell sang about being country before country was cool!
Most everybody in our town ate catfish. Catfish was...
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Contributed by Cynthia Pinsonnault
From the late 1800s to the mid 1950s, fruits and other produce were packed in wooden crates of various sizes and transported to markets where they were displayed for consumers. Crate labels were printed on paper and glued to the ends of the wooden crates. Attractive or informative crate labels were...
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When I went to this school, it was exactly the same as it was when the kids went to school there in 1917 or any year since it was a new brick building.
Nothing ever changed—the same building with the same old stove inside, and the same outside toilets for the girls and boys. The...
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