Rich: Southern gothic murder (Part One)

The first time I ever sat in a courtroom for a Southern Gothic murder trial, I was 17. Back then, I didn’t know there was a name for it because I had yet to read “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner or “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’Connor.

Letter to the Editor: Thank you from Ferst Readers

Dear Editor, Congratulations and thank you to all in our communities, whose generous donations made it possible for Ferst Readers to reach its goal to provide books for 500 children in Greene and Putnam counties for the coming year.

Letter to the Editor: An instrument of peace

Dear Editor, On October 11, during his weekly general audience at the Vatican, Pope Francis said, “Often a wounded person wounds in turn; the oppressed easily becomes an oppressor.

Scott a good role model for GOP

Georgia Congressman Austin Scott of Tifton is what a Republican should be – and used to be – before the rightwing crowd took control.

Georgia’s Golden Isles

This town, Darien, is a focal point of the Georgia Coast, where tradition and history are as entrenched as marsh hen, moss-draped oaks and shrimp boats.

Rich: Just a little talk

Tink enjoys looking out a window to see me meandering through the yard, talking to imaginary people. Usually, I’m working out a story but, not infrequently, I’m talking to someone special. Recently, I was out in the yard, picking up limbs from River Birch trees which prune themselves, constantly.

Yarbrough: No Nobel Literature Prize – again

Rats! Can you believe it? Once again, I have been passed over for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is beginning to get on my nerves. Some guy named Jon Olav Fosse won it this year. As you may know, the Nobel Committee is located in Sweden and the award went to a Norwegian.

Smith: Helen reminisces

I have had a love affair with this community dating back to the first time I ventured here in the Sixties which came about when a far-sighted man suggested that Helen was an especial place. He was right. Dr. Hugh B. Masters was an aficionado of the Chattahoochee and the North Georgia mountains.

Rich: Ronnie Green’s gift

A few days ago, I went by the hospital to visit with a close friend, whose mother was ailing something terrible. That particular hospital has grown into quite a monstrosity since I was born, there when it was a small three-story square building.

Yarbrough: More random thoughts on random subjects

Just when you thought our federal government couldn’t get any more dysfunctional, we all watched the political train wreck that was the ouster of a U.S. Speaker of the House for the first time in our nation’s history.