My neighbor Gayle and I were together from morning to night from the time I was 8 until I graduated from high school. That isn’t to say I didn’t have other friends, but she lived diagonally across the street and we shared learning to cook, learning to sew, even learning to knit, not to mention […]
When Goldie Tague died at Sunrise Center Nursing Home in Gallatin in the spring of 1984, her passing produced little or no interruption in the everyday life of Gallatin. Though she had been a citizen of the town her whole life, her name never appeared on a church roll, nor was she ever invited into […]
“Your dad’s newspaper is going to go out of business,” Butch said during class one day. What? Did I hear that right? Could it be true? What would it mean to me, my mom and dad and my little sister? “My dad says it’s not even worth wrapping up the garbage in,” Butch said the […]
“Oh, Joseph,” Miss Virginia crooned two days later when we arrived at the McDonald Tea Room. “I just loved this week’s edition. Let’s get your be-yoooo-tiful family seated.” The McDonald Tea Room enjoyed a crowd on Sundays with people not only from our area, but from St. Joseph 50 miles away and Kansas City 75 […]