Although you won’t read about what Obama had for breakfast on the front page of the ‘Kingstree Blues’ our local news is power journalism at its most provocative.  Where else would you read about Robert Allen Cabbage Williamson getting a new pair ...

And then was one with the passing of Jackie Floyd Wall. Peggy is the last one of the children survivors of John Tillman and Orie McKenzie Floyd of Rt. 2 Box 233, Kingstree.Her first name was Jacqualynn, but everyone called her Jack or Jackie. She was ...

When bigger pills are made Dr. Harry Floyd will prescribe them. If a pill the size of a peacock’s belly button is good, a pill the size of Salters Depot is better. The drug companies named the pill after Harry called “the highly unsaturated polyester ...

The dime of today wouldn’t buy much - a nickle candy bar, a stamp, a few minutes in a parking meter. But in the mid 30s and early 40s a little boy and a dime were a miraculous thing. In today’s world, a kid’s idea of a great Saturday morning is to sp ...

It had been so long since I had eaten anything, Dr. Dorn Smith sent my teeth to Florence Darlington Tech for a refresher course in Chewing 101. Carolinas Hospital Systems is like a city within a city. I couldn’t walk without dodging wheelchairs. An a ...

The following column written by Charlie Walker was taken from the May 23, 1974 edition of The News.Fish StoriesImpeachment, inflation, Patricia Hearst....these are stories making headlines everywhere else, but not in Williamsburg County.Right now, th ...

Johnson Tisdale, his mouth full of turnip greens, moans in ecstasy, as he rears back in his CEO Lay-Z-Boy recliner at Millwood and points to a sign over the front door. The sign says “Pray for rain.”  It’s so dry at Millwood, the corn looks like ...

Did you miss me at your house election night? Do you remember when the radio told you how many votes Frank McGill got at Mt. Vernon, V.G. Arnett got at Indiantown, how many Leonard Mishoe got in Greeleyville and LaNue Floyd received in Hemingway? For ...

Mike Wallace and Katie Couric were not present. It wasn’t reported in the Wall Street Journal, or the Hemingway Observer, but the Kings-tree Blues, always on the cutting edge of journalistic jive, carried a picture event on the front page. Half the p ...

We are all entitled to life, liberty and automobiles to pursue happiness. Since 1922, Hemingway Motor Company has been selling Fords to help you pursue happiness. The blue and white Ford sign on Main Street in Andrews will soon disappear, but 85 year ...

There should be a hall of fame for clichés. The first one inducted would be “the check is in the mail.” Another golden oldie that deserves consideration is “practice makes perfect.” I’ve been writing columns for over 30 years and practice don’t make ...

It’s not often we seek your help in tracking down a desperado. But desperate times, call for desperate measures. Perhaps you can put a name to this picture. Not since Billy the Kid, Jessie James, Al Capone, has one individual spread such chaos. He ha ...

TV has reruns, why not newspapers? How many times have you seen the same episode of the Andy Griffith Show, M.A.S.H., The Golden Girls? This week’s column appeared 990 newspapers ago. April 19, 1989, gas was $1 a gallon and you could earn 10 percent ...

Rednecks, good ole boys, intellectuals, Senator Yancey McGill and the cream of Sandy Bay’s society all gathered together at the Sandy Bay schoolhouse the last Thursday in April to eat and converse. The food was prepared by the touch of the master han ...

If you read this column on a regular basis, you are aware Peggy didn’t find a husband in a box of Cracker Jacks. Husbands like me don’t grow on trees, although Gamecocks and the population of Greeleyville would like to see me hanged from one. I am ki ...