Lifestyles
Politics: The good ol’ days
Flies were flying around the cookie crumbs and the spilled Kool-Aid on the concrete picnic table. It was ...
Dianne Smith
Hon. Joel D. Murphree helped shape turn-of-the-century life in Pike County
In 1902, the Messenger did a historical sketch column on several people who helped shape the county. Among ...
Lifestyles
A postcard ticket back home
Without my glasses, it was rather hard to read the Valentine cards that covered the walls of the ...
Dianne Smith
T. K. Brantley was influential in early years of Troy’s development
In 1908, the Messenger ran this article on T. K. Brantley on his seventy-fifth birthday. The Hon. Thomas ...
Lifestyles
Visions of an artist
Troy University hosted Troy Art Day on Friday and I found myself in the company of a large ...
Dianne Smith
The life story of William J. Blan, a soldier and newspaper man
In 1904, William J. Blan passed away. This story of his life was in his obituary published in ...
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COLUMN: Of Work and Generational Conflict
By Allen Mendenhall Allen Mendenhall is Associate Dean and Grady Rosier Professor in the Sorrell College of Business ...
Jaine Treadwell
Wrastlin’s in my DNA
My grandparents had the first television set in my young world. But the first television set I saw ...
Lifestyles
A tree as tall as my heart
The world looked mighty different hanging up-side-down from the stout limb of the crepe myrtle tree near the ...
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Remember when the Dutch Kitchen was the place to be in Troy
In 1947, a new restaurant called the Dutch Kitchen was opened. Hobbs’s Candy Company supplied the confectionary items ...
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