If called upon to compile a list of the ten most interesting people I have met in my now long political career, I’d certainly have difficulty in limiting the number, but one name that I know would be at or near the top would be Ben Fortson, or as he was known by thousands,...

  It’s Independence Day, Monday, July 4, 2016 and I’m up early reading.  This time it’s Light in August by William Faulkner, and as I’m already past page 300, I believe that for the first time, I’m going to finish a William Faulkner book. Janice gets up later, walks through the room and asks if...

This article was written by Larry Walker and published in the Sunday, July 9 edition of Macon’s The Telegraph. It was 1952, and I was ten years old.  I was in Atlanta for several days visiting my uncle, aunt and two cousins.  They had something I didn’t have, or, I should say, we didn’t have at...

Larry’s article appeared in the Macon Telegraph on Sunday, July 3, 2016. Do they still have “fishing ponds” at the carnivals, festivals and fairs where you pay your money, get your pole, drop your line behind a curtain, and some unseen person attaches something (not worth as much money as you paid to “fish”) to...