Stories

At age 4 my mother signed me up as a model at a kid’s fashion show  at Davison Paxon (one of 2 large department stores in Atlanta). I...

My mothers’ brother, Maxwell Berry, built a very successful business before and during the war called the Electric Products Company, in...

I met a lot of interesting people during my youth. Mose Claude Preston Drewry Whit Hart Milners & Troop 1 PH

Born: July 14, 1928 Died: September 29, 1998 Charles was a major presence in my early life. I was, all too often, his punching bag. One...

Who I was home with an illness, my mother would give me old Christmas cards. I then made constructions using the colored parts of the...

Family-Placed Death Notice McWHORTER, Fonville, Jr. Fonville McWhorter, Jr. age 82, from Atlanta, GA, passed away on Sunday, October 17,...

No recollection of my youth would be incomplete without a discussion of the Broome family, which lived across West Wesley from us....

During the summer of my 4th birthday, I was playing with marbles on the beach at Saint Simons Island, GA. In spite of a lot of...

We had an early Victrola, one of the tall wooden ones where the case was built around the speaker enabling a much longer “horn”. No...

Born with 1 white hair! I was told that at birth, I had one white hair. It did not las long but finally came back late in life with a lot...

Henry Jackson Sandy Gill Jim Manry Harold McKenzie Hix Green John Grant Frank Jarrell Booty Livingston Jim White Seth Mellen Dick Osgood...

n the spring of 1969 or so, Sally and I took the boys camping in Joshua Tree National Monument (now Park). On the last day the boys and I...

Button: Button was an all-black kitten with a white spot (button) on his throat. I got him on my 4th or 5th birthday. All mine, but not...

Mid-1930s: our family would drive to Meridian, MS, every summer for a week or so. We would stay at Grandmother Currie’s little brick...

One night our cook Esther had a date with Horace. They came back late and parked at the end of our driveway on Vernon Road. My parents...

Discipline was rather strict most of the time at our house. Charles was the main infractor and got into trouble frequently, mainly by...

“Big Charlie”, or as Charles and I called him during our teens in his absence: “Snazro” or “Bic”, was our father. Life had not been easy...

My first home was on Morningside Drive in Atlanta, not far from Piedmont Avenue. I don’t recall a lot about Morningside. There was a...

Cocoa Florida was my favorite destination in the late 30’s and early to mid 40’s. My mother’s sister Margaret Lyons, who Charles & I...

Somewhere Manry found rocks with asbestos fibers hanging out. We would scrape them off and mess with them in our fingers. They would not...