Wilson | June 21, 2009
I don’t care much for “Hallmark Holidays” but it’s never a bad idea to remember your parents. And so today thoughts turn to my Dad, Stepdad and Grandfathers. Here is Dad, Grandad and Cousin Bill on the front porch on the occasion of his Roebuck High School graduation. This is taken in Columbia, SC upon [...]
Wilson | May 31, 2009
I was rummaging through a bureau filled with old news clippings, dead batteries and broken radios and stumbled across a container filled with all the minutiae a household collects and never throws away. A few old pennies, odd buttons and safety pins. Dried out pens, tie tacks and a spool of thread with a needle. [...]
Wilson | March 1, 2009
Here is a picture of the Smith homeplace dated 1951. Of all the trees in the photo only the oak on the extreme left remains, and it now dwarfs the house as shown in the masthead photo. The granite step visible in the lower center of the photo is still there. A circular drive used [...]
