Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com In a recent column, I discussed the brief use of milk as a substitute for blood in transfusions. I was certain that nothing could be stranger than that odd…
Category: History
Remembering Madison’s World War II hero Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr.
Kathy Egan news@greenepublishing.com Before U.S. involvement in World War II, Madison’s Colin P. Kelly, Jr., having recently graduated from West Point and been promoted to Captain, was stationed in what was considered…
Your four freedoms
Kathy Egan news@greenepublishing.com President Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union Address has become known as the Four Freedoms Speech. Spoken eleven months before the Japanese invasion of Hawaii, the speech took on…
Madison’s monument to four freedoms
Kathy Egan news@greenepublishing.com On Jan. 6, 1941, President Roosevelt spoke to the nation through his State of the Union Address. The speech came eleven months before the U.S. involvement in World War…
Way Back When
1965 Madison – The Men of Song quartet will be one of the features on the North Florida Junior College-Madison Artist Series Association for the coming season. The group, to appear in…
Keeping it collegiate in North Florida
Hailey Heseltine news@greenepublishing.com As most colleges and universities in Florida started the fall semester between Aug. 18 and 25, class is back in session for students around the state. Many North Florida…
Cowboys Soak Indians 39-8
Members of the Madison County High School Varsity Cowboys lunge at the Ocilla Indians during a game on August 31. The Cowboys were hot all night, allowing the Indians only one touchdown/two…
Way Back When
1965 Governor Haydon Burns mails checks totaling $71.335 from the Haydon Burns Scholarship Foundation to 311 student recipients. The checks represent half the scholarship grant to each student, with the remaining half…
Farm Bureau celebrates with Annual Banquet
Lee Cason was presented a plaque for his many years of outstanding service to Soil Conservation. Presenting him his plaque is Johnny Glee. [Greene Publishing, Inc. Photo by Emerald Greene, September 19,…
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup: a patent medicine that packed a powerful punch
Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com Any parent can recall the many adventures that came with living with an infant during their teething stage. The frequent crying caused by the discomfort of sore gums could…
Way Back When
1965 At Central Florida Baton Camp – Five baton twirlers from the Madison area recently spent a week at Howey Academy, Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., taking instructions in baton twirling, strutting, charm, and everything…
Snapshot Rewind:Tri-County Electric Cooperative Holds 60th Annual Meeting
Carson Cherry (left), a former Tri-County Co-op Board member, talks with George Webb, Office Manager for the Cooperative, during the Annual meeting. They were both Election Observers for the annual election at…
When the medical practice was malpractice
Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com Today, we find plenty to complain about in the medical field. Lengthy waits for appointments, high insurance premiums and medicine side effects are just a few of the concerns…
Way Back When
1965 Rev. Jack Shaw, of Madison, has been named as co-director of the Stetson University Alumni Association, according to Edwin L. Mason, president of the Stetson Alumni Association. He is a 1953…
Locals who lit up Hollywood
Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com Madison County has a pretty good list of famous athletes, actors and singers whose laurels are resting in the history books. From Ray Charles to Jessie Solomon, Chris Thompson…
Madison County’s first baseball great: Archie Ware
Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com Before Greenville native Lorenzo Cain made Madison County proud with his World Series win with the Kansas City Royals in 2015, Archie Ware put Greenville on the map with…
At a loss for words: more idioms to consider
Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com If you have been to the grocery store lately and checked out egg prices or any number of other food items, you may have thought “this is costing me…
Thelma Thompson leaves a legacy in Lee
Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com Thelma Thompson’s road to Lee is a long and winding adventure that began in her native Monticello, Ill., where she was born in 1919. After her parent’s marriage failed,…
Robert Robinson: Did his hymn help to restore him?
Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com Robert Robinson is best remembered as the writer of the beloved hymn, “Come Thou Fount.” Born in the 1700s, he was a contemporary of evangelist George Whitefield and fellow…
Two-step trauma: The Dancing Plague of 1518
Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com In my search for interesting moments in history to share this week, I may have stumbled upon the inspiration for the song, “Dancing the Night Away,” which was a…