Author: Rick Watson

by Rick and Jilda Watson “I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.“Everybody wants to be home for Christmas, but sometimes it can only be in our dreams.…

Julie Watson McCann graduated in 1985 from Dora High School, and she’s packed a lot of living in past 19 years. Julie is a certified scuba diver, she worked as…

Every Veteran’s Day is an important day, and this year is no different. Our country is at war and our troops are engaged in fierce fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.…

By Jerry GrammarI find it ironic that the song came out a few years after the death of a dear friend who bore an almost identical name. Billy Joe McMurray…

DON’T BE SORRY BE RIGHT!If you ever had Coach Jim Coston as a teacher, you heard those words. If you ever felt like you had made a mistake and said…

Fay Thomas Bobo graduated from Dora High School in 1941. She began college at the University of Alabama in the fall of ’41, but then war broke out and she…

I was surprised and delighted recently when I got an email from Glenn Allen Bobo which said “did you realize that another writer that graduated from Dora has a book…

The following story is one sent to writer Dale Short by Faye Bobo after an article he wrote for The Daily Mountain Eagle about summers in the south. It relates…