Dora Bulldogs

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,…

The recent outbreak of severe weather brought to mind a memory of long ago. I thought I would share it with you. As the bell rang for school to be…

I remember within 10 feet of where I was on November 22nd 1963. It was just after lunch and I was sitting on the bleachers on the east side of…

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…