Wednesday, October 6, 2021—Scotty Kirkland“A (fast) Walk Through History: Alabama’s Bicentennial Park”Conceived as the principal legacy of the 200th-anniversary commemoration of statehood, Alabama Bicentennial Park is the result of the collective vision, dedication,...
Horace and Doris Farris Everywhere I go I am looking for a little bit of “nice.” I remember a kinder, gentler, time when people treated each other with respect and did small acts of kindness with no expectation of reward or even thanks. There is an old saying, “You...
B.B. Comer Memorial High School I have always been interested in schools of yesteryear and how they evolved into such different places as time rolls on. From Miss Beadle’s school in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series of books, to any book I see about...
These words were repeated countless times by wives and mamas and husbands and daddies of long ago. The neighborhood Mom and Pop Grocery was not far away from the family’s house, but in one car families or no car families going to town to shop was only...
Grocery stores have always been about products (supply and demand), people, and service. The mom and pop stores of the past provided the things that people could not raise on the farm, and they raised just about everything. People even did spinning and weaving at...
Sylacauga has some store buildings that have been in the same location for a very long time, but the store that is open there now is not the store that was open there in the fifties and sixties. One such store is Walco Grocery. I have passed it hundreds of times...
The mom and pop grocery stores of yesteryear will always be memories in the hearts of those who operated them and the customers who traded with them. Ezekiel’s Grocery at the Quarry was one of those stores. Several other Sylacauga families whose names you will...
Where did that running pig go? Everyone in Sylacauga loved the sign that said Old Hickory and the little pig that was always running. He had a lasting impact on this city in the days that Sylacauga was on the Florida Short Route. The old Birmingham...
The year was 1968 and Dean Martin was a popular television personality. It was the year his popular weekly summer programs began featuring a group of young, beautiful, singers and dancers called the Golddiggers, an idea from a group that originated in the...
It’s that special time of year when school is starting again. I can almost smell new blue jeans and see those shiny new pencils, book bags, and pointy new crayons. I can close my eyes and smell the shiny waxed floors, so clean that even a small child hated...
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