Editorials

I sometimes forget that one of the keys my successful marriage was that Kristi and I held a grudge.
A (supposed) friend, upon seeing the ring a day after I proposed, told the two of us, "It won't last." No congrats, no "that's cool," no "when?"
So, over the years, if things ever got tough, we'd remind each other that we had to stay married out of spite.
I feel like we've hit a significant number at 35 years. I last wrote about anniversaries at 30, which was the year Kristi promised to stop introducing me to people as her first husband.

Recent conversations about Rocky Mount selling its water system to a private company have certainly ruffled a lot of feathers, and rightfully so!
I recall as a teenager observing the equipment near the Tar River Reservoir Dam area. I was incredibly fascinated. As a young teen, who had no idea of what my future passions would be, my imagination would take me all sorts of places as to what was done there. Was it something that would require good grades in chemistry?
As an older teen, I learned it was the waste water treatment plant and that Rocky Mount owned the county's water supply - which made absolutely no sense whatsoever - even to a teenager!

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on March 4, 1965. Members of the 1965 championship Red Oak team are (left to right, first row) Billy Davis, Tony Bennett, Ransom Journigan, W.H. Johnson and Reggie Simpson. Back row: Steve Pittman, Sam Ennis, Jackie Vick, Robert Fisher, Coach Bill Ennis, Tom Ennis, Steve Moor, Ollin Manning and manager Allen Moore.