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Butch Asks Former Students About Their Old School

In 1988, I wrote a book about my old school, and in one chapter I...
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Butch Is Up-To-Date On Technology !

My wife and kids think I live in the past. They want me to keep...
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Butch Proclaims That Elvis Is Still “The King”

My wife and I watched the new "Elvis" movie at the Eastside Ten theater in...
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Butch Meets A Candidate For U.S. President

As a high school student in the 1960s, I never took much interest in politics....
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Butch Says Don’t Go With A Woman To Shop For Clothes

How are you feeling today, guys? Is everything going well for you? You say you...
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Guess What Butch Won?

When I was a youngster growing up here in the Darlington community, the American Legion...
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Random Thoughts, Observations, And Questions….

First...on the national scene...OK, what about Donald Trump? Is he a criminal? Or was he...
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Butch Cannot Live Without His Coffee!

With inflation and the recession...(YES, WE ARE IN A RECESSION despite what Ol' Joe says),...
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School Days in the 1950s

(Note: This was written by Sharon Hankins Lough in 1988 and it was included in...
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PE Class Was The Best And Worst Of Times!

Like many boys, I participated in all of the sports that Darlington offered back in...