Columns - Topics from October, 2011
A ghostly Halloween
If I sent out a survey to determine how many local folks have had a close personal encounter with the infamous Surrency ghost or any other ghost for that matter, I’d bet that the results would be quite interesting. I’ve never gone looking for this vaporous being myself, nor do I intend to, but students for the last twenty-six years have given me much information about it.
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Health and lard
Lord have mercy but I am depressed. My land auction business is slow, hunting season just came in and no one invited me to a bird shoot, all the national news just repeats itself and generally it is all bad, Europe is melting down financially, Obama is going to save us all, and my hip is killing me.
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A day at the Okefenokee Festival
Breakfast at The Inn at Folkston included coffee with cream, a variety of sweeteners, orange juice, a delightfully delectable fruit salad, fluffy blueberry pancakes and crispy bacon all in a charming atmosphere of fine dining in southern living fashion. In addition to the excellent food and southern hospitality was a lot of happy camaraderie with other guests.
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Rules, rules, rules...
From the time we are born until we die, we have to deal with rules. First our parents provide the rules. Don’t chew with your mouth open. Keep your elbows off the table. Wear clean underwear in case you get in an accident. Clean up after yourself.
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Cast iron and Cialis
What is it with some of these commercials these days? Take the Cialis commercial.
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The Great Okefenokee Festival
The town of Folkston, Georgia was officially incorporated on April 3, 1895 as a circle one mile in diameter with the depot of the S.F.& W. Railroad as center. In 1901, the Charlton County seat was moved to Folkston from Traders Hill on the St. Mary’s River. Folkston soon became the commercial center of the county, growing from a population of 167 in 1900 to 355 in 1910. In 1911, the city of Folkston was chartered and according to McQueen and Mizell’s History of the Okefenokee Swamp, by the mid-1920s boasted an “artesian water system and electric lights, two miles of graded streets and cement sidewalks, 14 stores, bank, newspaper, two hotels, two barber shops, three garages, two restaurants, two drug stores, bottling works, ginnery, grist mill, turpentine works, and an all-night telegraph office. Today Folkston has 2500 residents. In addition, Folkston borders on the largest freshwater swamp in North America, the Okefenokee.
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Usa Goodle!
I am really bad at finding my way from one place to another. I know not to travel without a map. I can follow a map if necessary, but Map Quest was designed for people like me. It serves me well most of the time.
Go 1 ? miles to Georgia Highway 341. Turn right. Travel 7.4 miles to traffic light. [Full Story »]
Go 1 ? miles to Georgia Highway 341. Turn right. Travel 7.4 miles to traffic light. [Full Story »]
Daddy and the hornets
My Daddy was the finest man I ever knew and it was always a treat when he would ask me to go with him to the Douglas Fishing Club on the Big Satilla River below Atkinson Community. The trip he invited me on in the winter of ‘73 would be memorable.
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Boiled weeds and such
For some weeks now the signs have been there. As my huge sycamore tree drops its brown leaves, the winds strew them over the whole yard. When I turn the car into the driveway, the sight of autumn in my yard hits me in the face, but so does the heat when I open the car door. Since mid July, I’ve been hungry for cooler, brisker air. It’s the eternal cycle, rejuvenation of mankind—womankind, too, I might add. Please, Lord, just a few degrees cooler. I beg of you.
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Precious frog
We have had a terrible drought but I hear it is even worse in Texas. I always heard my wife, a Texan, say everything is bigger in Texas. I guess this even applies to drought. I told my brother, Marq, that I was going to have our Preacher include a prayer for rain at our church and he said, “Please do.”
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Yet another fiesta
September 27 is a very important date in my family history; it is my birthday. My sister Flo said that I cried all day the day I was born and that the rest of the family has been crying ever since. I like to celebrate great events and I consider my birthday to be one of the greatest.
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