Today's Features

Dave and Amy Williams of Wheatley are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their son, Trevor Dean Williams to Audree Layne Harper. Harper is the daughter of Shawn and Ginny Harper of Murray.
The ceremony will take place at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, at First Baptist Church in Murray. A reception will follow at First Baptist Church Family Life Center.
Please RSVP at www.theknot.com.

In 1872 the Concord Association of Baptists held a revival in Owen County. It was attended by crowds from Owen, Carroll, Henry and Gallatin counties who met in the woods on the farm of Josephus Vanderen, about a mile southeast of Dallasburg.
Several local preachers delivered stirring sermons which were accompanied by hymns of praise reverberating throughout the sultry summer air.
After three days the faithful proceeded to Mussel Shoals where they continued to fellowship and share their faith.

The Fourth of July was the hottest day of the year so far. My thermometer at the front of the house read 91 degrees at noon, and the sun had already moved to the back of the house. I spent the day inside under the air conditioner. Dobbs and I watched the Fourth of July spectacular on KET.

When I was a kid, my grandmother on my father’s side owned a bakery.

Whenever we’d visit her we would come home with huge pink bakery boxes filled with assorted butter cookies, plus bags of bagels and loaves of bread and the best cinnamon rolls and bear claws you could ever eat.

Fun fact: My dad used to say that when Uncle Benny swept the floor at night, whatever he swept up was what he put on the bear claws as toppings.

I’m pretty sure he was joking, or else he wanted to gross us out so he could eat all the bear claws.