Editorials

In the next week, we will have Halloween and Election Day. I am not sure which is scarier. One will cause people to binge eat, drink too much, pretend to be someone else, scare total strangers and make regrettable decisions.
The other is Halloween.
One thing I've always enjoyed about this season is ghost stories. We only have a good local ones.
The Tarboro Banshee is one of the oldest you'll find, as it dates back to the Revolutionary War.

I received a message last week from a young man who will always be one of the most famous Nash County citizens known to Nashville in my book!
Back in 1996 when the Nashville Chamber of Commerce decided to launch a festival, we first had to decide a name. The inaugural event was slated to happen in 1997 on Mother's Day weekend.
The chamber held a contest among all Nash County 4th graders. Charles Logan Vester of Spring Hope was the winner of the contest with an essay that couldn't have been more perfect for the chamber's new festival, thus came the name "Nashville Blooming Festival."

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on March 25, 1965. Mrs. T.V. Wheeless and Mrs. E.N. Sykes, home beautification leaders for Philadelphia Home Demonstration Cub and Nash County, respectively, transplant crepe myrtles at the Philadelphia club house as memorials to Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer who had passed away. Mr. Sykes is shown lending assistance with the job.