I was probably twelve years old or close to that age. This would have been 1954, or thereabouts – pre-television, air-conditioning (at least for us), etc. Perhaps I was entering puberty, and perhaps not given my size and physical maturity. If I was, I assure you I didn’t know what was going on. I had...
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Oddly, I begin my 2013 book report with talk about two 2014 reads. “Can’t be,” you say, “2014 isn’t here, yet.” Ah, but I know. It’s those two books that arrived in the mail, last week, from Dink and with clever inscriptions in the front, written on an angle, in a typical ‘Dink way’, titled...
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Confession is supposedly good. So I will. I got my idea for this from the title to an article in Janice’s November 2013 edition of Southern Living in their online version called Why We’re Thankful To Be Southern. I haven’t read their version, but here’s mine. Ten reasons I’m glad to be Southern: We real...
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On Saturday afternoon, August 4, I as going through a box of old photographs, law school papers, letters, etc. when I saw it. It was a Wednesday, September 8, 1982 article that Lewis Grizzard wrote about the Monday night (the first time the new $800,000.00 lights went on for a football game in Sanford Stadium)...
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It’s early Sunday morning, July 14, and I’m sitting here thinking about the last two days. What did it all mean? Was it all real? Was it as significant and profound as I think it was? I pick it up again. I read it, again, as I’m sure I will do, again and again, for...
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We, Janice and I along with Philip and Mary Hart Wilheit, were at Dink and Pam NeSmith’s place on the Pacific in Costa Rica when I spied it in the bookshelf. It was Lewis Grizzard’s book, If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground. I’d read it before,...
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Larry Walker is a native of the gnat line, (a distinctive area of Georgia), having lived in Perry, Georgia all of his life. As they say in the country, Larry Walker is “an old coon in the barn.” He started practicing law in 1965 and hasn’t slowed up since. He was even a judge, Perry...
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