Here's my list. Please add to it.
- If I need to find someone I want to interview at the Tanner Truck and Tractor Pull, I can walk up to the announcer and have him holler for that spectator to stand up and wave.
- I can slip my payment through a crack in the doors at Hendricks-Patton-Rancl after hours.
- The guy at the nearby convenience store made me a wooden basket.
- When winds knocked down my tree onto my backyard neighbor's goat shed and neither of our insurance companies would pay, a local congregation cut the wood up for a widow who uses a stove for heat.
- Patriotic songs play from the courthouse chimes each morning.
- Churches and volunteer fire departments took care of tornado victims weeks before FEMA arrived.
- If I miss church, one of my Smith sisters will be texting to see what's going on.
- The locals know the big decisions made by city officials were once made in the back room at Dub's.
- The media gets tips from an Athens based Deep Throat.
- The Ripley community makes Christmas floats and uses the prize money to buy Bibles to hand out.
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