Jim Smith
Think Holiday Open House(s)
Think cool weather. Think fall and the end of daylight-savings time. Think Thanksgiving dining and a long weekend…
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Historic plaques on the agenda
Three homes in Decatur County will be recognized for their historic value when the historic and genealogical society…
Jim Smith
We are so easily deceived
Back in my news reporting days in the mid 1960s, there was a fellow in Daytona Beach of…
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Abuse in a restaurant booth
Driving home from a week’s vacation in the north Georgia mountains last week, we stopped for lunch at…
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It’s still the land of opportunity
Through no fault of my own, Forbes Magazine suddenly caste its shadow upon my doorstep. I didn’t order…
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Voting for all those people
Well, it has happened again. Went to participate in early voting this week, and there on the ballot…
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A pinch of this, a dash of that
Some ramblin’s on this and that: Some coherent and some not so coherent. This No. 1 The Giz…
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Cemetery talk draws large audience
The biggest personal hurdle in merging the historical society and the genealogical society has been mastering the spelling…
Jim Smith
Miss Julia counts her days
When Ralph Jones got the big headline recently in this newspaper that he planned to retire from education,…