Columns
Days Gone Bye: Where Did You Run?
With life’s pressure and troubles, do you ever think about just plain running away from it all sometime if you really could? Well, back in ...
Tom Boggs, Author at The Demopolis Times
Columns
Days Gone Bye: Not All Frigidaires, Kleenix, Xerox
Well, that’s what we called refrigerators, facial tissue and copy machines back in those days, ‘less you want to throw in those messy mimeograph machines ...
by Tom Boggs, Monday, March 11, 2024 11:08 pm
Columns
Days Gone Bye – Before The Half Century Passed
By Tom Boggs Before The Half Century Passed (Retread from 17 Jan. 17, 2001) We find ourselves flat dab in a new century, but there ...
by Tom Boggs, Friday, March 1, 2024 9:58 pm
Columns
Days Gone Bye: Critters I Have Known
Missing some of the adventure and excitement of earlier life, I conducted a little recon by canoe down the ol’ Chickasaw Bogue the other day, ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, January 10, 2024 8:59 pm
Columns
Days Gone Bye: Horses, Dogs And Norwegian Rabbits (Retread From 14 March 2001)
Well, I never was much of a horse rider. A couple of times a borrowed horse ran off with me, and as luck would have ...
by Tom Boggs, Sunday, December 31, 2023 9:00 am
Columns
Days Gone Bye: The Christmas Coat Revisited One More Time
By Tom Boggs Well, since I’m mostly using retreaded columns these days, I figure I might oughter rewrite about that Christmas coat one more go ...
by Tom Boggs, Sunday, December 24, 2023 9:00 am
Columns
Days Gone Bye: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way Down
By Tom Boggs How many times have I heard somebody say to me about my years as an army paratrooper, “I can’t believe you would ...
by Tom Boggs, Sunday, December 3, 2023 10:09 pm
Columns
Days Gone Bye: How Come It’s Called Sweet Milk
I got to pondering on stuff we say down here in the Southland, and the first thing that came to mind was “sweet milk.” Any ...
by Tom Boggs, Sunday, November 19, 2023 9:00 am
Columns
Days Gone Bye: When you were twelve (Retread from 25 July 2001)
In 1952 I had to start paying full price at the picture show on account of turning twelve, which was the 51-52 school year. Linden ...
by Tom Boggs, Thursday, September 14, 2023 5:18 pm
Columns
Days Gone Bye: Summer Vacation (Retread from 1 August 2001)
When I wrote the name of this week’s column, for no particular reason, I thought about that National Lampoon movie about the Griswold’s entitled Christmas ...
by Tom Boggs, Sunday, September 3, 2023 4:42 pm
Columns
Days Gone Bye: Double Dog Dare (Retread from 29 Aug 2001)
I don’t know that I’ve double dog dared anybody to do anything lately, but sure did back in the day. Matter of fact, seems like ...
by Tom Boggs, Sunday, August 13, 2023 4:07 pm
Columns
Days Gone Bye: The Mail Still Runs (Retread from 25 Sept 2001)
Been awhile since I’ve used a three cent stamp on a letter or a penny one on a post card. Seems like the mail is ...
by Tom Boggs, Saturday, August 5, 2023 5:18 pm
Columns
Days Gone Bye: Where’d Y’all Go For Fun
Fun was pretty simple back in those days, at least by today’s standards, I reckon. Had a close call at the M&L Club in Demopolis ...
by Tom Boggs, Saturday, July 29, 2023 5:53 pm
News
Days Gone Bye: That Good Ol’ Party Line (Retread Column from 18 Aug 1999)
Our dear friend, Margaret Carter, came by, and was talking about her late husband, Pete Carter, who she always called “Mr. Pete.” Anyhow, we got ...
by Tom Boggs, Sunday, July 23, 2023 3:51 pm
Columns
Days Gone Bye: Number Please (Retread from 4 Aug 1999)
How many of y’all left around to remember Gulf Shores right after the war? Not much more than a wooden hotel, and then later some ...