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by William Young as published in the Pickens County Progress It’s writing contest time for students in Pickens County. The Sassafras Literary Exchange has set the beginning date for its Creative Contest for Youth for Monday, September 25th. The contest will end at the end of the school day on Friday, October 20th. All students …
by Mary Ellen Johnson The Firefly Story Hour, a part of the Georgia ForestWatch Fall Retreat, October 10, 2020, guided by Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, is a virtual storytelling session around a virtual campfire, 3-4-minute stories around the theme of CHANGE. Epiphanies relating to Nature began for me in my …
by William Young, President Sassafras Literary Exchange originally published in the Pickens County Progress, Thursday, October 1, 2020 Despite the difficulties this year has brought, we must persevere. Holding on to our traditions is of extreme importance now. The Creative Writing for Youth contest from the Sassafras Literary Exchange has become a tradition for Pickens County …
Youth Writing Contest Prepares for 39th Year – Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Read More »
originally published in the Pickens County Progress, Thursday, September 17, 2020 A new book, “Once is Enough,” has appeared on the Pickens County arts scene. It includes a fascinating account of life in the 1940s through 1960s in Atlanta, Georgia, and written by Maria Boling, a well-known Pickens County Realtor who lived it. Among other stories …
Author Maria Boling’s Latest Focuses on Atlanta in the 40s-50s Read More »
by Mary Ellen Johnson, Sassafras Literary Exchange originally published in the Pickens County Progress, Thursday, August 27, 2020 Sassafras group members were excited to have their first in-person meeting since March on Thursday, Aug. 20th, 6:30 p.m. at the pavilion at Lee Newton Park for a summer themed picnic: hors d’oeuvres, grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, and …
Sassafras Writers Group Holds First In-Person Meeting Since Spring Read More »
By William Young, President, Sassafras Literary Society as originally published in the Pickens County Progress, August 13, 2020 A wee, tiny want ad in the Pickens County Progress is how it all started; the Sassafras Literary Exchange, that is. You see, Pickens County native Cordia Byers read a book and didn’t like the ending. “I …
by B. Joan Gordon Life in the village has a static rhythm that assures one that all is well in the world, and if that changes, neighbors will help you. The sun rises before 6:00 A.M. and is announced by pigeons cooing to each other. Soon sugary smells stream through the bakery door onto the …
by Valerie Millar It was a clear, cloudless night in the late summer evening of 1974. Our parents had gone out to dinner and our sister, had a date with her boyfriend, leaving my younger brother, 11 years old, and I, 14 years old, home alone. David, my brother, was in his bedroom and I …
by Mary Ellen Johnson (if you don’t even know what clotheslines are, better skip this) There is one thing that’s left out. We had a long wooden pole (clothes pole) that was used to push the clotheslines up so that longer items (sheets/pants/etc.) didn’t brush the ground and get dirty. And now a POEM… A …
by William Karry Kent You color my dreams with laughter you give comfort as I sleep your smile, your touch refresh my heart my eyes never again will weep Your soft whisper soothes my soul like a calm breeze on the sea and tickles me like magic as you lay softly next to me yes, …
