A Book With Stories Of Long Ago

How about this moisture we’re getting? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it so wet, and still not raining. The mist is so heavy it just clings and seems wetter.

There is another new book in the Lincoln library that locals may be interested in. Titled “Grape Vine Swings and Hill Top Farms,” it is a so-called Living History of the Arkansas Ozark Mountains, tales from the goodold days and treasury of 20th century memories, complied by 346 contributors.

Some of those writers who may be known locally are, from Farmington: Richard Rutledge; from Lincoln, Jerry Leach (who won one of the three prizes for best story), Marie Myers Roy and Cynthia Sugg; from Prairie Grove: Janell Clement, Barbara McClain, Carl Reeves, JoAnn Reeves and Wanda L. Rieff: from Siloam Springs: Anna M. Spears; and from Summers: Don Honea and Jannette Honea.

For those who might be interested in owning one of these volumes, order forms are in the library. One copy would furnish entertainment for the coming long winter evenings, with stories ranging from flour sack clothes and dinner on the ground, through back-breaking work (no electricity) and doing without during the depression, and broken-down old pickups, to Sears catalogs and fearful poison ivy in the outdoor toilet, and hundreds more “haps and mishaps,” telling it like it was.

I enjoyed a visit with nephew Don and Diana Bradley and their youngest granddaughter, baby Evelyn Grace, who looks like her beautiful “big” sister Sophia. I can’t believe Sophia is already in Kindergarten. They grow up too fast! We’re going to miss Don and Diana as they are moving to Oklahoma, near their daughter and family.

Happy birthday to Carol Von Cannon, Deby Bailey, Don Griscom, Billy Wright, Carol Umberson, Sharon Luginbuel and Judy Bradley.

Happy anniversary to Chris and Kim Brock.