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I spent my first two years of college in Nashville, TN, which I considered as getting my education in “The South.”But I soon learned that to discover the REAL South, one had to go deeper, like the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, even Virginia and its Western expansion, etc.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Dr.

My friend Charles Biggs of the Tulsa Beacon wrote the following. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.What Kind of Last Comments did Atheists Make at Death?

It will be Halloween in a few days, and we found some interesting items about this annual event . . .

A couple of weeks ago I shared an article that those of us 74 and over are now considered “old.” That was the bad news. However, there is a newer article out from Japan that now says that those of us under 75 qualify as “pre-old”. I now feel so much younger. The article read as follows . . .

Here’s a warning all the way from the Big Lake region in Reagan County (West) TX from publisher Randy Mankin who ran into any number of frustrations while shopping for a new vehicle.My solution to the problem is simple. Don’t buy a new (or used) car.

Texas has a lot going for it. One of the things -- there is a lot of wealth and pride residing south of the Red River and the growth of North Texas continues unchecked. I remember back in the 1950s when I lived in a Dallas suburb and worked for a company called Chance Vaught, building jet airplanes.

Many years ago, Dayna and I would enjoy going out for supper and then going to a movie. After a few years we just went out for supper because we didn’t want to stay up late enough to see a movie.

I have been associated with a variety of newspapers in one category or another for the past 70 years.

You know, after a man retires he has more time to think. To think and perchance to dream. So said the old Bard. I saw in the Daily Oklahoman this past week that experts who do the “Farmers Old Almanac” are, again, predicting a harsh winter for Oklahoma and Texas. Sort of like last year, I wondered.