An Idyllic Weekend Nothing compares with the hype that surrounds a football game in the NFL. You get all the pundits jawing on for ours days before the big game. And then on the day of the game you get three hours before and after of predictions followed by analysis week-in and week-out. But this [...]
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS January 17, 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. could hardly believe his eyes when he left the segregated South as a teenage college student to work on a tobacco farm in Connecticut. “On our way here we saw some things I had never anticipated to see,” he wrote his father in June 1944. [...]
Martin Luther King “I have a dream”
The Care Package My nephew Bryan Vann is now deployed in Afghanistan. It is his second tour of duty there having been in the initial group that entered the country back when the US was tracking down Osama Bin Laden. His wife Marquita sent us a letter letting us know what types of goodies he [...]
We Are Family! Visiting with Bryan in Kentucky.
Winter persists here in the Midwest. The streets are clear for the most part but the temperatures are unpleasant. This is not the kind of weather to ride solo. You could suffer hypothermia if an accident left you unconscious for any length of time. We set out to deliver some books to the shipper at [...]
by BILL CHAPPELL Fifty years ago, the University of Georgia accepted its first two black students — Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter. Back then, the future journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault called him “Hamp.” And she has vivid memories of the day they walked onto campus in 1961. “We were greeted by a screaming, howling mob of [...]
Connie and I visited the Pilcher Park Plant Conservatory today. Despite the cold weather there were visitors coming in and out the entire time we were there. Connie made the photos. Like the larger and better known Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago this is a site of lush greenery and brightly colored plants. It is [...]
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