Editorials

Before you ask, yes, it is hot enough for me. As a matter of fact, it's too hot.
You can also skip the "it's not the heat so much as it is the humidity." It's all the same to me, I'm sweating too much and that's all that matters.
I've been on this rant most of my life, and I finally got it on the page in 2007 with one of my favorite columns that carried the headline "It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.") It is an important chapter in my book, It's a Time in the Land: The Best of the Soapbox.)

This week brings news of maybe why the Nash County Detention Center should have been built (expanded) somewhere else other than downtown Nashville. (See page one regarding an inmate setting fire at the jail.) There's nothing new about an inmate attempting to set a fire in a cell, should the right tools make its way into their hands. However, a look at the criminal level being housed at the facility now is certainly far beyond what the initial jail was built for. Not to mention we're hearing rumblings that we're still having to house inmates at locations across the state, moving them back and forth, due to space and security levels, even after the multi-million dollar expansion.

More than 200 years ago, Rackley enlisted for a tour of five months in the South Carolina Militia in Captain William McKenzie's Company of Colonel William Hill's Regiment which was part of General Thomas Sumter's Brigade.
Francis Rackley was born July 27, 1757 in Granville County, now known as Franklin County, near Mapleville. He was the son of Passon Rackley and Sarah Parker.
The family moved in 1779 from Franklin County to the South Fork of Catawba River, now known as Gaston County. While living in this area, Francis and his brothers Joseph and Passon, Jr. enlisted as privates in Captain William McKenzie's company of the South Carolina Militia for a five month tour of duty.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on August 31, 1976. The Brooklyn Caps posted an 8-6 victory over Peoples Bank in the tournament championship taking first place in the event and were 15-5 during the regular season, finishing second place in the standings.