by Tina Neeley | Dec 21, 2024 | Feature
Twice a year, in February and August, church doors open and shut out the cares and stress of the outside world. If only for a few hours, music and a common goal bring everyone together. Sometimes, the quartet’s lively banter, four-part harmony, and coordinated...
by Tina Neeley | Dec 21, 2024 | Feature
The pastel tulle tutu fanned out over her sweet bare feet, worn over her onesie. She smiled, not just with her mouth, but with her nose and eyes. It was a day of ones — of firsts. The number one on Claire Parker’s first birthday outfit forever memorialized a day of...
by Tina Neeley | Nov 8, 2024 | Cover
SHE PLUNGED her hands into the water, the towering suds transporting her to the old ladder-back chair pulled up to the kitchen sink at her mama’s side. One dish at a time, in no hurry, she washed them, turning them this way and that before carefully dipping them into...
by Tina Neeley | Nov 8, 2024 | Feature
“HELLO, MY baby, hello my darlin’, hello my ragtime gal …” The tinkling and plinking of an old upright piano danced out of the speakers as he danced around the dining room, straw boating hat waving in one hand while the wooden hook cane punched the air with the other....
by Tina Neeley | Nov 8, 2024 | Feature
AS THE family of four unloaded from their van, their oldest child pulled on his father’s arm toward the train. Cory Osborne’s scaled-back, coal-black engine with its silver cowcatcher waited patiently as its cars and caboose filled with the family and others....
