All Entries in the "American Stories" Category
Grandad’s Stories | The Cow and the Rattle Snake
Grandad’s Stories ~ Wisdom Lessons By: Tony Rollo Grandad was sneaky. He could give a lecture on life before I realized it was a lesson in life. Sometimes it would be about the immediate situation. Other times he was planting a time-bomb in my young brain, triggered to go off in some distant year, set [...]
Hey Grandad! What’s For Supper?
An Essay by Tony Rollo It was ritual for the family in the 1960s to make regular visits to Great Granny’s house in Greensboro, Florida. It was a large, very old but solid farm house even back then. Huge, ancient oaks reached high to heaven in the yard and patches of native flowers abound in [...]
” The Rose of Dixie ” ~ A Story of Humor and Surprise ~ By O. Henry
When The Rose of Dixie magazine was started by a stock company in Toombs City, Georgia, there was never but one candidate for its chief editorial position in the minds of its owners. Col. Aquila Telfair was the man for the place. By all the rights of learning, family, reputation, and Southern traditions, he was [...]
