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Shel Silverstein Comes to the Magic of Marble Festival – Remembrances of Sylacauga by Ginger Clifton

Shel Silverstein came to my elementary school classroom via my son,  the year I became a public school teacher in 1980 and Ray went to the University of Alabama as a freshman.  Ray and I were both poetry lovers, but Where the Sidewalk Ends was a different...

Memories of Marble and Mama – Remembrances of Sylacauga by Ginger Clifton

The Magic of Marble Festival 2022 is over, but the magic of marble in Sylacauga remains with us in the number of jobs the industry provides as well as the beautiful art treasures that make Sylacauga such a unique place. This was the 14th annual event sponsored by the...

When God Winks At the Magic of Marble Festival – Remembrances of Sylacauga by Ginger Clifton

One of my favorite books, When God Winks at You, was written by Squire Rushnell, a former television president and CEO with ABC. It is packed with interesting accounts of how God speaks directly to you day-to-day through events that first seem to be coincidences. Such...

Following the Faith that Never Falters – Remembrances of Sylacauga by Ginger Clifton

Old time-religion Baptists like to say that the faith that falters was faulty from the first because Jesus Christ changes everything. This is the story of Nora Pearl Minter Culberson and Albert Rufus Culberson who met one day at an all-day gospel singing at the Odena...

The Dream Lives on in The Marble City – Remembrances of Sylacauga by Ginger Clifton

Many people, including this writer, are in love with a. town that never existed, a town where Andy, Barney, Opie, Aunt Bea, Comer, and Goober lived and worked and helped each other through the ups and downs of small town living. (We can say with pride that two of...

A Strange Ending And A New Beginning – Remembrances of Sylacauga by Ginger Clifton

The story of what happened at the old Rec Building is a strange one that I did not know until I read The Story of the Sylacauga Recreation Building by Beth Yates. As previously reported, that building which opened in 1942 was built to be temporary and last for ten...
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