For the past forty-one years Wanda Thompson has been helping students find their voices. Thompson is the choral director at Hartselle High School, and as such she has been a guiding force in bringing music into the lives of her students. “Some of them have never experienced singing in a group before,” said Thompson....
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He walked up and knocked on the door of the Morgan County Jail. Most guys were trying to get out – William Cooper McClanahan was trying his best to get in. The young GI had served in the Pacific in WWII on the USS Mercy; a hospital ship that plied the waters of a...
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With the promise of spring in the air, I have a renewed energy to tackle projects around my home. As I flip through the pages of various shelter magazines, touting organization for the New Year, I am inspired to clear out my junk drawer and to organize the laundry room. Done and done! But...
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Sometimes the course of a life is changed in an instant, a point of time referenced by something so wonderful or so horrendous that we mark everything as either coming before or after the event. For Harold and Debbie Fanning that moment came as they drove along the once familiar streets of their hometown, Ryland, Alabama. This wasn’t a...
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