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Editor and Civil Rights activist George Napier Perkins was born in Williamson County, Tennessee, on January 1, 1842. After a move to Little Rock at the age of fifteen, he served in the U.S. Army for three years, married Maggie A.

The man at the epicenter of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that redefined jurisdictional boundaries for most of eastern Oklahoma, including Okfuskee County, was found guilty in a federal retrial for sex crimes he committed against a child more than two decades ago.

It wasn’t until 1975 that I met my step-uncle, George Armstrong, down in SE Oklahoma near Valiant. Another uncle, Ezra of Petaluma, California, was visiting and he wanted to find this lost brother.

Everyone thinks senior citizens are senile. An elderly couple was celebrating their sixtieth anniversary. The couple had married as childhood sweethearts and had moved back to their old neighborhood after they retired. Holding hands they walked back to their old school.

Like so many other things Sunday has changed dramatically over the years. As a youngster, after church we would go home for lunch and spend the afternoon visiting or napping. No work was done on Sunday unless it was an emergency and there was no shopping.

The mind is a priceless gift, one that sometimes can be clouded by environment and preconceptions. For example: The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

Veteran’s Day 2020 FREEDOM IS NOT FREE I watched the flag pass by one day. It fluttered in the breeze A young Marine saluted it, and then He stood at ease. I looked at him in uniform So young, so tall, so proud With hair cut square and eyes alert He’d stand out in any crowd.

My knowledge of stagecoaches is from watching those old black and white movies of the 40’s.

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.

Just how much longer must we wait? And on who? Well, it is coming they tell us. And we might just add: “come soon.” The Covid virus continues to sweep America causing many of the mask nay-sayers to hush up and reach for their own masks.