We, Janice and I, our son, Russell, his wife, Krissy Pope Walker, and our grandson, Knighton, were having lunch together after church this past Sunday when I asked Russell: “What do you think I should write about next week?” His reply: “Daddy, I wish you would write about scouting cotton, which Larry and I...
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Slogging Through Dog Days. Like most older folks born in the rural south years ago, I’ve heard about Dog Days all of my life. And, while I know that Dog Days refer to the sultry, hot days of summer, I’ve never known exactly when they are, so I “looked it up.” I still don’t know...
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It’s wrong to forget about a man like Cicero Lucas! I’m trying to help keep that from happening. No, everybody hasn’t forgotten Cicero. The folks over in the Statham, Georgia area where Cicero now lives and those in the Washington, Georgia area where he is from, know Cicero, and I’d bet the farm that almost...
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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,...
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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...
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In 2016, Associate Attorney Brooke Newby joined the Walker, Gray, Hulbert, & Moore firm. She has a general practice in the areas of real estate and business transactions, general civil litigation, personal injury and probate and estate matters.
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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...
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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...
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My Aunt Lillian Walker Maddox, Daddy’s sister, could just about out-work anyone I ever saw. Efficient, too. She could shell butter beans faster than a machine. And although she lived in Atlanta, she came back to Washington County and helped with the hog killings and the syrup makings. She could sew and cook. And...
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