There is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan called “Forever Young”. The song haunts me. Looking back through the yearbooks from Dora High School, it seems like every…
My brother Neil Watson graduated in 1961 from Dora High School. He passed away on February 13th 1994. Neil wasn’t a class officer, nor did he play much high school…
Looking Back – While shooting photos for a recent story I happened on the old Dora High School Gym. It’s now the Alabama Mining Museum, but other than the sign,…
Dora, Alabama – The Place That We Call Home -Dora has an interesting history. A place settled by people who were not afraid of work. People who scraped out a…
As school starts at Dora I reminisced about when I was in school. The question of corporal punishment was being discussed recently at work and my mind wandered back in…
Class of 72 Graduate Has Her First Novel Published It was during her fourth grade year at tiny Empire School that Bonnie Powell became a writer. “I had written my…
I’m not sure when it happened… Halloween becoming an evil holiday. I mean, when I was a kid, it was right up there with Christmas. I mean you could dress…
by Asa Faith Randolph Class of 61 Because I have been reading all the interesting pieces that have been written for our website, I have been made aware of something…
