Reunion
A picture hangs on my living-room wall in Columbia, Tennessee, magnificently framed, of which I am especially proud. It is an original 1902 photograph of Confederate veterans gathered for a reunion — friends, relatives, and comrades-in-arms of my great-grandfather James Lewis White, a private in Company F of the 48th Tennessee Infantry, who later enlisted in Company F of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry. The picture is probably taken...
No Kin to Elvis Comes to Dixie
THE MARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATER JOINS NASHVILLE AND ATLANTA THEATRICAL GROUPS IN DEVELOPING NEW PLAY No Kin to Elvis is a musical comedy based on a book by the same name. The story is set 1957 in the fictitious town of Marlburn, Georgia, a small community situated in the heart of a burgeoning carpet industry, still enjoying a postwar boom. Emmer Lee Prestley, a young woman transplanted from the mountains of North Carolina, must...
D. Man: My Life and Boxing
D. Man, a new book based on a memoir by Richard Paul Westcott and written by Dr. John White, is available at BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon.com CLICK ON THE DESCRIPTION ABOVE Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/D-Man-Boxing-Richard-Westcott/dp/1504911105/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432917034&sr=1-1&keywords=D.+Man%3A+My+Life+and+Boxing%3A+Based+on+a+Memoir Barnes and Noble:...
Random Recollections of a Railway Express Agent
My father was a Railway Express Agent in Columbia, Tennessee. Here are a few topics that came up in conversation after Thanksgiving dinner. Mr. Hardaway was the agent (manager) of the Railway Express Agency (REA) in Columbia, Tennessee in the early 1960s. He was nearing retirement when he became ill. The district manager in Atlanta called my dad, Jack White, in Cookeville and told him to return to Columbia to take Mr. Hardaway’s...
Margaret Mitchell Comes to Charleston
Mrs. John Marsh, The World Knew Her As Margaret Mitchell is a play written and produced more than twenty years ago by Atlanta playwright Melita Easters. In 2010, it was rediscovered and has been produced in prestigious venues throughout the South — Atlanta’s Margaret Mitchell House and Ansley Park Playhouse — and at the Players Club in New York. May 24th through June 7th it begins a run at the Piccolo Spoleto...
Music Man — Rick Clark
Anyone who has ever listened to a CD from the Oxford American Magazine’s annual Southern music issue has probably thought, “The guy who picks this song list is a genius!” It turns out THE GUY is Rick Clark who lives in one of our favorite towns, Columbia, Tennessee. Here’s a recent article about Rick: http://validitymag.com/2013/12/tennessee-music-from-the-heart-of-columbia/...