By: Tuffy Fields This past weekend I experienced an event I first witnessed 63 years ago, The Farmerville Watermelon Festival. It has grown from a festival that began with two semi-trucks loaded with watermelons drive through town accompanied by political speeches to a festival spanning over a weeklong period with a two-mile parade, over a hundred vendors selling everything from …

By: Sallie Rose Hollis Parents’ Day was Sunday.  It’s been around since 1994, when Congress unanimously passed “The Parents’ Day Resolution,” establishing the fourth Sunday of July as a perennial day of commemoration. Through all those years, I’ve mostly been ignorant of it.  Even without my help, though, on that day each year, Americans have recognized outstanding parents, celebrated the …