From Small Town Boy to World Traveler
Growing up in the small town of Anacoco, Louisiana in the 1950’s and 1960’s could be very boring at times. Sports, hunting and fishing were our main forms of extracurricular entertainment. The student body was too small to field a football team. Basketball was king, and baseball came in a distant second. I was first […]
Long gone are the days of trading paper notes in class without getting caught. Kids that text (all 100% of them) will never experience the thrill of receiving a paper note, the anticipation that surrounded getting one if you were expecting it from your girlfriend or boyfriend, the cooperation and assistance, plotting and planning it […]
When I was growing up in Anacoco, Louisiana, a small West Central Louisiana town in Vernon Parish, one athletic stood out as superior to all. His name was Jimmy Hawthorne, who in later life became the radio broadcast voice of the LSU Tigers from 1979 to 2016. Our school in Anacoco was a small class […]