Let’s Play

Told by James Heath
(retyped by April Heath Pastis) One day when we were coming home from school, we came across some kids playing in front of their house. Well like all kids would we stopped to say hi and pretty soon they asked us to come inside. So, we did of course...

Bug Eye

Told by James Heath (as dictated to April Heath Pastis) I spent a lot of nights sleeping at my grandparents house. One night,
I was getting ready for bed after making myself a sandwich. Back
then, we didn’t have our bread sliced and so I used a butcher knife
and...

The Perfect Fishin’ Hole

by April Heath Pastis Maybe there’s something to the Scottish stereotype of being thrifty, because my mother has always appreciated a good deal. And this was a great deal. When I was about 10 years old, my mother had saved enough Blue Chip stamp books to buy my...

Compiled Service Records of My Confederate Ancestors

by Charlton Queen Anglin, John W.—3rd Sgt. Thedford’s Co. 11th Regt. Tenn Vols on 5/25/1861 at Nashville for 1 yr. Age at enlistment: 25. Present on roll 8/15/1861. Present on roll 8/1/1861-10/1/1861. 9/1861 on sick furlough since 9/4/1861. 11/1861 on...

Love is In the Air

Contributed by April Heath Pastis Steve’s great aunt, who speaks in broken Greek-lish (a mixture of Greek and English), told me a lovely story about how her mother married her father when he “crashed” the wedding. Back in 1880 in Greece, they still...