FOURTH OF JULY By Inez McCollum Fireworks on the evening of July 4 are always so exciting. When my husband and I first moved to Birmingham, (Alabama) we lived on the Southside below Vulcan. Our second floor apartment had a porch which we would stand on during the fireworks extravaganza. One had the feeling those various lights […]
Month: July 2015
First Fourth of July – letter from John Adams on July 4, 1776
This letter was written by John Adams to a friend the day after the Declaration of Independence and was later reproduced in a newspaper. “Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever decided among men. A resolution was passed unanimously ‘That these United States are, and of right ought to be, free and independent […]
Old Washing Machines and the Good Old Days
OLD WASHING MACHINES by Jesse Suttles A picture of an old washing machine brought back a lot of old memories. When I was a teenager back in North East Texas. My job every Saturday morning was to draw water from a 10 inch bored well. I would fill the old cast iron kettle. Then I had to […]