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eType Editor

  • Joined: December 14, 2022
  • Articles: 2079

Letters to the Editor:

Dear Editor, My name is Tearsa Innis. My mother is Sara Charlotte Smith Pennell. My grandmother, Shelby Fenton Lay Smith Hensley, was a lifelong resident of Marshall and taught generations of High School students at Marshall High School. I am in the beginning stages of writing a book about her life and was wondering if there is any way that I would be able to get some stories from some of the people who were in her classes at MHS or possibly even in her Sunday School classes at FBC. I don’t know if there is a way I could utilize your newspaper to ask for submissions to include in my book or even exactly what the correct protocol is for such a request.

Newbie no more

The Great Southwest Road Trip Part 2 As we travelled on our flying trip through the southwest, we listened to a course AJ (our son) had liked about Ancient Civilizations of North America. That inspired a trip to Chaco Canyon in a remote corner of northern New Mexico, reachable by 20 miles of washboard dirt road one way, with the cabinet bouncing on the back of the car every rut of the way. The scenery was remote, rugged, and the loveliest I have ever seen the desert.

Snowball new

Greetings from Snowball! The last few weeks have been a blur here at our house. We’ve had some sort of event every Saturday for the last month, birthday parties, horse riding, etc. I checked the rest of the month and it’s continuing through October.

Martin Box news

This cooler weather has been nice. Only one thing it means we are to get some colder weather before long. Winter. No one I know of likes colder weather and that is Phylis Hensley. She could live in Alaska without any heat. For real!

Welcome Home and Bear Creek news

Good Thursday morning. I went to feed Bo and the cat. As I was coming home this morning, I saw an eagle in the tree. It was pretty. I visited Leisa Younger and Charity Rolen at the Mountain Wave office. It rained pretty close to three inches at my house. Bonnie Marker visited me, Last Friday I went to Harrison. I visited with Fanny Smith. We ate lunch at the Senior Center. After lunch we went shopping at another store. After that we went to Edward’s. Then we went to Fanny’s house. I came home after that. Kathy and her family came home from their trip. They have been to Florida.

Around our town

Hello to all of you Marshall Mountain Wave readers and greetings from the jewel of the Ozarks, Leslie, Arkansas. What a week of magnificent fall weather we have had. Cool mornings and in the 70s during the day. We got some good rain this week as well. The persimmons are ripe, and we cut open the seeds and found the white inner seed to be in the shape of a spoon. Now according to wife’s tales and the farmer’s almanac spoons mean a wet winter with a lot of snow, and we had 9 foggy days in August so we should expect 9 snowstorms. We shall see if this bit of folklore has any merit as to how much snow we get. In the meantime, I am enjoying the cool Autumn weather. While excavating the garden we discovered a vein of red clay that runs deep and wide so we have been making some earthenware from it and firing it in a pit in the back paddock of the garden. We have had some success in firing these pots with the clay body that we have and the pit we are firing in. So we have decided to build a mudbrick kiln to see if we have better success in firing the pottery that we are making.