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~Winter '05 Featured Articles~ _________________________ Great stories! Great reading! Humor, poetry, history, memoirs . . . and more! Remember David Smiley! by James Lutzweiler Smushed pennies by Newt Harlan Uncle Bob's Empire by Terry Everett Two Poems by Paul Jones (PJ) Blogging by Lonnye Sue Sims Pearson Bridges of cloth by Shirley Blair Keller Dredge by David K. Adams Aging calls for big bluffing by Beth Boswell Jacks The Chattanooga North Pole by Charles Dowdy Putting on the dog! by Gene Owens Growing up in Mississippi by Bobby Joe Moon Forgetting about eating by David Holmes Little Sisters by Monica Murphy Southern Secrets ~ cracked granite and butterbeans ~ by Don Drane Hot glazed donuts by Barbara Robinson Compose by Claude Jones The Williams Broomstick Diet by Ed Williams A funeral to remember by Alita DeBerry Today's grandmothers: daring divas by Ann Ipock Where is yesterday? by Phylenia French Gorilla warfare by Ginger Caudill Book Season by Jackie Cooper ________________________ Don't forget to visit the ARCHIVES! ________________________

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