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Remember When: Remembering Gene and Christmases past

The last time I saw Dorothy Wyckoff at White Oak she was meeting with the hospice people for…

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Remember When: Remembering Roger

Have to bid au revoir to another friend, Roger Traxler. An acquaintance really, but we always greeted one…

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Remember When: Remembering Bill and Paul

Bill Lippincott invited me to speak to the local chapter of the AARP shortly after I started writing…

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Remember When: Remembering Virginia and my grandfather

I met Virginia Graves many years ago at one of her son Claude’s grand kiln openings at the…

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Remember When: The evolution of St. Luke’s Hospital

Our beautiful and beloved St. Luke’s Hospital began as a clinic upstairs above the A&P store, now Owen’s…

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Remember When: Remembering Butch and Elaine

Getting that email from McFarland’s was another shocker… did not realize that Butch’s time was running out. He…

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Remember When: Remembering Jack & Isabel

I can’t remember when I first met Jack Campbell . . . it seems as if I have…

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Remember When: Remembering Barbara Ann & Fred

I think I cannot improve on what I wrote around the first of the year: “When I was…

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Remember When: Remembering Georgie, Shirley and Donkeys

Right after I retired in 1988 and returned here to resume living in my “home area,” I soon…

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Remember When: Evolution of the Tryon Horse

The first Tryon Horse was built of wood by Meredith Lankford and Odell Peeler, employees of the Tryon…