By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Thanksgiving was great, which has not always been the case. It’s my favorite holiday. All good. None of the pettiness that accompanies other celebrations. Everyone gets along. It was great to reacquaint myself with the five kids of my nephew and his wife. A rough year began with a month …
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Talking turkey and shooting the bull about ballgames
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ I feel as if I crossed over at about the time I placed a helping of ham and dressing on a plate next to the casseroles I missed the first time around. Turkey was assigned green-bean, mac-and-cheese, sweet potatoes and pecans, and turnip greens. Ham got hash-brown casserole, more …
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A Couple More Days Till the Turkey
Clinton, South Carolina, Thursday, November 28, 2019, 8:11 a.m. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. This should come as no surprise. I’m fat, and there’s food. Family. Football. I must be 4-F in the Thanksgiving draft. I’m mostly a happy guy. I love baseball, too. Hot dogs, especially the ones at Whiteford’s Drive-In, the ones with …
‘Happy Thanksgiving from the Fam-uhhhh-leeeeee’
Clinton, South Carolina, Friday, November 23, 2018, 8:46 a.m. When Ray Phillips was a child, he realized that Betty Dutton’s oyster dressing was a national treasure, not to mention a rare and precious thing. Ray is my nephew. Betty is my mother and his grandmother. Ginger Sacarrere is his mother and my sister. For two …
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Nightrider's Lament 