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Job Was Not the Safest
Looking Back with Lloyd Mathews, originally printed in 1979? (exact date unclear) “Hear me my friends while a tale I tell, Of the cold-blooded murder of John Caddall. In…
Old Saying Found to be True
Looking Back with Lloyd Mathews, originally printed June 13, 1979 I have always heard it said that as we human beings get older we get more set in our…
Credit Runs Our World
Looking Back with Lloyd Mathews, originally printed February 19, 1979 It’s a great big credit card world we’re living in. Wallets are bursting at the seams trying to carry the…
Women Had Part in Area Battles
Looking Back with Lloyd Mathews, originally printed January 29, 1979 Southwest Virginia played an important role in The War Between the States, in supplying both men and materials, as…
Tinkling Spring Revisited
Looking Back with Lloyd Mathews, originally printed July 24, 1978 Old settlements hold a great fascination for those of us with appetites for the excitement of the past. One…
Valley’s Infant Phone Systems
Looking Back with Mathews, originally printed May 31, 1978 Alexander Graham Bell was about ready to try to communicate with his assistant, when he suddenly upset a battery, spilling…
Remedies and Rumors
Looking Back with Mathews, originally printed May 15, 1978 Every good thing has a price, and the price paid by the mountain people for the good environment has always…
Hopes and Wishes for New Year
Looking Back with Mathews, originally printed January 8 1979 Christmas 1978, that seemed so far away when the colorful leaves of October were falling, has come, and all too…
Slow Return to Early Christmases
Looking Back with Mathews, originally printed Christmas 1979 In the early days in these Appalachian Mountains there were many small communities of people situated in the deep hollows that…
Pulaski’s Foremost Hero
Originally printed February 6, 1978 On a cold sleety afternoon in January, I made a pilgrimage through the foot-deep snow to a far corner of Oakwood Cemetery, to satisfy…
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