Miss Lizzie Porter
When I was a boy, there was a mysterious elderly lady who lived in an old decrepit house on the corner of West 6th and North High. Sadly, she was the subject of a lot of jokes and wild stories, mainly because she sat on her porch in all kinds of weather, surrounded by chickens, and occasionally with a side by side shotgun across her lap. Nobody, especially a kid of twelve years old, considered that she had an especially rich past tied...
The Pointing Dog Social Club
The Pointing Dog Social Club is a 30-minute outdoor/musical variety show produced through a collaboration among WKRM Radio (Kennedy Broadcasting Company), lilDRAGON Entertainment, CountryRoad.TV, Marshall County Community Theatre, The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, and Spotted Dog Productions. 🎥 The show is filmed and recorded at the famous Dixie Theatre, a classic 1930’s venue located in historic Lewisburg, Tennessee, The...
On Hot Days After the Dusty Mexican Squirrel Fight…
On hot days after the dusty Mexican Squirrel Fight, no one likes Yazoo — nor does he expect them to. He has been an incendiary and worked hard at it: heckling the mean, little Latin-tongued squirrels, tossing hickory nuts onto the mat breaking up the game…No one likes that; and when we go to Peggy’s for good lemonade and fried raising pie, he is not invited. Yet, he is there anyway — with Dwayne. I remember...
The Pinkstons of Bryant Station
If your family lineage traces a long way back in Maury County history, you’d do well to study the names chiseled in rock at Haynes Cemetery, a fine old resting place high on a hill in Scribner’s Mill. Ancient red cedars border a plush, rolling green adorned by 400 headstones and sprinkled with spontaneous patches of purple irises, the Tennessee flower. Carved into the native rock, names encountered represent Duck River...
The Boy Driver
(Editor’s note — The names have been changed to protect the guilty.) My mother told this story about my dad, Jack White, when he was the 14 year-old bus driver at Culleoka School. He had been driving the bus since he was twelve, having been recommended for the job by his mentor, Bill Orr, the principal at Bryant Station. Jack White as a teenager It seems that the previous driver, a Mr. Harris, had been scaring the daylights out...