Editorials

If you're a parent, I'm sure you've said it. You're going to hear it a lot on TV and the internet in graduation speeches. It's going to come up in conversation.
"Life isn't fair."
My view on that expression has changed a lot over the last few years. As a matter of fact, when someone says it around me now, my response is usually, "Thank goodness."

My husband and I live a few miles outside of Nashville's town limits in a community which was well known back in the day as the Dean's Community. Today, most refer to our neighborhood as the Elm Grove Community.
The community is the homeland of my husband. He was always surrounded during his youth by an incredible tight-knit circle of families.
Fast forward, the community hasn't changed all that much - but times have indeed changed quite a bit.

This photo was found in The Nashville Graphic July 1976 archives. It appears to be a photo taken during a parade held in Red Oak celebrating America's Bicentennial.