Blackbelt Gazette
Days Gone Bye: Remembering laughter in the woods
It has been quite awhile since I would call myself a hunter or even much of a fisherman, ...
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OPINION: Include community in your plans for the New Year
Here we are at the opening of a brand new decade. Am I the only one who feels ...
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Old age memories can be amazing
I chuckled the other day as I related to a friend that right before 2020 dawned upon us ...
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Some of best hotdogs made in Alabama
In several of my “musings” recently I have talked about getting a good hotdog. There are a few ...
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Give me a dollar’s worth please
I’d pull up to a service station in Daddy’s Pontiac, and hold one finger out the window, indicating ...
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Welcome 2020
It was so long ago that the principal at the elementary school greeted us at a school program ...
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Where we might ought not to have been
We didn’t often venture too far from home way back yonder, ‘cept maybe walking over to Indian Mounds, ...
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“Days Gone Bye”: Yes, we were young
I have a ceramic mold of an old Englishman’s head I bought in London many years ago. The ...
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The old man came knocking
In all these many years, I didn’t expect to miss even one newspaper deadline with my weekly column, ...
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MCAAPA: October is Family History Month
Now that we are into the month of October and we all notice the trees turning color around ...
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Time to enjoy the most comfortable time of year
(Jerry Smyly write this outdoors column special to the Demopolis Times.) The rain and cooler weather have finally ...
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After victory, back to living
The year was 1946, and it was a good time to still be living. So many millions had ...
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A funny thing fell out of the sky
I reckon about as serious set of circumstances as you can face is going through all the procedures ...
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Learn the quarry you pursue
(This column was written by Jerry Smyly for the Demopolis Times.) It’s getting so very, very close to ...
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Summer heat turns to fall coolness
I’m glad to live where there are seasons, although as much as I love the sun on my ...