by Gerry Furgason | Nov 20, 2023 | FAMILY
While visiting my son and his family in southern Texas, I took a photo of the young soldier who was living on a military base with his wife and children. The base played taps each evening over a loud speaker system as the American flag was lowered. Everyone who...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 20, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
Before the advent of the modern hot water heater, preparing for a bath began with boiling a teakettle full of water on our McKay Street gas cook stove. After the water was poured into the white bathtub in the small bathroom next to the kitchen, cold...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 20, 2023 | CHESTNUT STREET-PHOENIX HILL
For over 18 years, our non-profit Art Gallery oversaw programs in the Louisville, Kentucky area. Those teaching programs ranged from the west end of the city where children learned to paint in oils in the Portland Library to the east end of town where seniors...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 18, 2023 | POEMS
Lift up your sons from cradle rest And give them bread. This day they need defend Our shores, our green of hills. Need fight as men need fight, God’s name upon their lips. Need die as men need die, Helmet on each cross. Call your daughters from their dreams And...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 18, 2023 | JACKSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
I stepped off the bus in August 1957 to start a new life in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Looking up the street I noticed signs of Bars and Hock Shops. Glancing in the opposite direction I noted establishments of the same order. I walked into the Bus Station to...
