Author: Rick Watson

Five words that you’ll never hear at your local Super Storeby Greg Phillips Having been raised in the Dora/Sumiton Area in the 50s & 60s, I was fortunate to have…

It was in the early 1980’s and Jilda’s first trip to New York City. We were there visiting our friend Keith Watson and pitching songs to a record producer. We…

I’m teaching my niece Samantha how to play guitar. She’s busy with school activities and dance, but I think she will play well in time. In looking at this photo…

Nadine Wickford is from Germany, but she graduated with the Dora High School Class of 96. She was an exchange student who attended Dora in 1995 and 1996. She recently…

by Greg Phillips Hot Cars & Sherer’s Drive-In on Saturday Night – Way back in the sixties fewer things were more important in a teenager’s life growing up in the…

I love our corner of the world. Especially this time of year when it starts to get hot. When folks from up north visit in October and it’s still warm…

by Dan Nix In the summer of 1960, a few of us had the privilege and honor to take a Democracy course under Principal Glenn C. Gant. We chose to…

Jerry Grammer has been a professional musician almost all of his life. He has worked with a Who’s Who’s of famous musicians and writers. It was this work that got…

This year the Miss Dora High contest celebrates its 50th year. The contest is unlike most other high school contests in that it takes not only beauty and brains, but…

The Dora High School reunion was a great success with more attendees than ever before. At last count there were over 130 but the crowd looked much bigger. Bobbye Wade,…