ALEXANDRIA – The low-rambling brick rancher sits atop a hill, some quarter of a mile off the snaking highway that runs between Alexandria and Jacksonville.

George Smith's column of Wednesday 11 July 2018

DON’T ASK me why, but it has come to me that you probably really don’t know me . . .

THE REV. TRUMAN NORRED is a former pastor of mine at Blue Mountain Baptist, was for 10 years ... and would still be had not hip problems put him on the sidelines.

GOOD DAYLIGHT has arrived and I’m sitting out on the patio with my first cup of coffee and:

George Smith column of Wednesday 27 June 2018

Outlined against two oversized recliners and a couch as big as East Texas, the “Four Fathers” reigned again, if for only a brief two hours.

Wednesday’s beans ’n greens ’n other things:

IT IS IN the gloaming somewhere in Louisiana, autumn of 1940, and the father of three, including a brand new baby girl, is at the wheel of a dark-green ’39 Ford.

George Smith's column of Wednesday 13 June 2018

George Smith's column of Sunday 10 June 2018

George Smith's column for Wednesday 6 June 2018

SO HOW ’BOUT those blue lights?

In my memories are four brothers.

George Smith's column of Wednesday 23 May 2018

“I went to your wedding although I dreaded the thoughts of . . .

George Smith's column of Wednesday 16 May 2018

Memories sometimes fade with age and maybe your remembrance is not exactly the way the memory was born.

George Smith's column of Wednesday 9 May 2018

George Smith's column of Sunday, May 6, 2018

George Smith's column of Wednesday 2 May 2018

George Smith's column of Wednesday 25 April 2018

MIDDLETON – I am standing on the small hill that is home for what I call “the new Oak Bowery Baptist Church.”

George Smith's column of 18 April 2018