Carol, Terry, & Debi at the Trinity United Methodist Church parsonage at 307 Timothy Avenue in Rome Georgia. This was likely in May of...

Miss Lottie Duncan, church secretary, Trinity United Methodist Church, Rome GA about 1964 or 65. I remember the set of portraits of each of ...

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A small flyer/poster from my Mother's papers.  April 20, 1963 -- My Daddy preached lots of revivals and camp meetings. In 1963 he preach...

On this date my Dad's first cousin Onna Lee Wilkerson was married in Terre Haute, Indiana to James I. Fishman. The ceremony was conducte...

In August of 1961 our Gilmer County 4-H Club was invited to participate in the 4-H Hour television show on WAGA-TV channel 5 in Atlanta. Sin...

 My Daddy was my scoutmaster when I was a Boy Scout in Ellijay, GA just before we moved to Rome, GA, in February 1962. I do not know the exa...

  It was interesting to find this card among my Mother's things recently. I was surprised to see that Paul Hanna was the leader.  Paul w...

One time when my father returned from a week of preaching at a camp meeting - I forget which one - he brought back this portrait stone paint...

Mrs. Parks Seventh Grade Class Ellijay Elementary School Ellijay, Georgia 1959-60 Comments from 2010 Tony Pope Wish they still did class pho...

Judging from the ages of the kids I guessing this was 1959. It is Mary Carol Shaw (Johnston)'s birthday party in the back yard of the pa...

  I loved the Boy Scouts and was a scout during our years in Ellijay. My Daddy was our scout master during part of that time. I loved the ca...

------- From the future 2024: Another great find in my sorting of my Mother's papers: Back in the fifties, every Sunday, the Atlanta Jou...

  This picture was posted by Don Hall on Facebook in 2018. Mrs. Janelle Knight (standing at the the back) was my sixth grade teacher and thi...

 I found this old program in a box of my mementoes that's been packed up since the 1960s. It is my sister Janice's not mine. Janice ...

My students will be interested to note my early interest in hats. Comments Terrell Shaw Note the Redcedar, the true Christmas Tree -- a tr...

My youngest sister Beth who died in 2022, set up a Rootsweb website in the early 2000s for my first hometown, Milstead Georgia. This is one ...

These five index cards will fall out of a book in 2024 in Rome, Georgia and remind me of my first few days in Ellijay and with my new friend...