Editorials

It's come up with readers a few times in the last year --remarks about how much they used to enjoy reading about our kids growing up in these pages.
For the better part of two decades on a regular basis, Holly, Kent and Lowell made life crazy, and fended off many a case of writer's block.
I realized how many times they had been main characters when I collected all their column appearances in 26 of the last 29 years and made them each a book when they graduated high school. Those things are the size of small encyclopedias.

We will celebrate the 28th Nashville Blooming Festival this weekend, an event founded, and still organized, by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce.
The chamber launched the first event in 1997. The event number is 28 due to missing two years during the pandemic shutdown. The entire event is still organized by volunteers - not a paid staff. That speaks volumes of the level of commitment people have poured into our hometown festival.
Over the next few days we will witness a million smiles and giggles from thousands of children and adults alike. We will watch thousands of people dance in the street or pull up a chair to listen to some amazing live music.

Dear Christians,
This Thursday, May 7th, 2026 is our annual National Day of Prayer. The leaders of this annual event have named this a day of national Praise & Repentance using II Chronicles 16:23-24. V23 "Sing to the Lord all the earth; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. V24 "Declare His glory among the nations, and His wonders among the people." They are asking all Americans to take a few minutes out of our busy lives and bow our heads and submit our will in solemn repentance and praise recognizing that only God can save our nations.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on May 23, 1968. New FFA (Future Farmers of America) officers were elected at Northern Nash High School. Pictured, left to right: Kenneth Craft, sentinel; Roger Barnes, treasurer; David Manning, secretary; Randy Pendergrass, president; Jim Reges, Jr., vice-president; Bruce May, reporter; and Gene Evans, chaplain.