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Butch Ate CHEAP During College Days!!!

    After my wife I buy our groceries each Friday, both of us complain about...

Butch Remembers Those Teenage Summer Days of Work

   When I was a teenager back in the 1960s, during the summer months I...

Butch Remembers Neighborhood Farm Tractors

   A few years ago I wrote a column about the 1951 Farmall Model H...

Butch Recalls “The Mother Watch”…

   One of my regular patrons, a lady who I have known most of my...

Butch Turned Off and Tuned Out!!!

   Recent research has brought to light a trend that has grown rapidly in the...

Things Butch’s Dad Said to His Kids

    There are certain things that fathers tell their kids over and over again, not...

Butch Remembers Old Wooden Benches

   Like many small towns in days past, Darlington had several wooden benches located on...

Butch Says His Town is the Champion of Nicknames!

   A few years ago, I mentioned that several people in my hometown had nicknames....

Butch Recalls Strange Visitors From Another Planet

  During most of the years that I was a police officer, I worked the...

Butch Remembers Those Tearjerker Animal Movies

   Since one of our granddaughters has a horse and competes as a barrel racer,...