2019 Progress by Franklin County

Stories of the Past 2019

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Progress 2019 We love to share memories with each other about “the good ol’ days,” don’t we? There’s just something about reminiscing on those days gone by, dwelling on those thoughts of the past and the good times we experienced then. It gives us a sense of nostalgia, and while life is often about moving forward and facing the future, sometimes it’s nice to remember where we came from and reflect on the experiences that have created the foundation of who we are today. We make it a point to share many glimpses at Franklin County’s past in the weekly Franklin County Times – from our “Peek at the Past” photo feature to the “Looking Back” section highlighting headlines of old. Every now and again, however, it’s important to dedicate a whole section to these precious memories. Thirteen of your Franklin County friends and neighbors have done us the honor of sharing their stories from Franklin County’s past. Although their stories are personal to them, they are also the stories we all share – the memories we all have and cherish. We suspect their tales of the past will spark in you some memories of your own – memories, perhaps, that you haven’t brought to mind in a long time. We speak regretfully sometimes of the past, particularly of our sweetest memories, longing for times that are gone and we feel we can never have again. But esteemed author Lucy Maud Montgomery encourages, “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” We hope this special publication can be a tiny piece of helping you remember. Alison James Managing Editor

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9 Wilbur Underwood 12 Charlene Fancher 14 Alice Ann Pennington 16 Orland Britnell 18 Buford Parker 20 Joseph Baldwin 22 Greg Hamilton 24 Lanny Norris 27 Wayne Ray 30 Derek Ergle 33 Bill Smith 35 Scotty Kennedy 40 Rodney Alexander

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A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE

A devastating ďŹ re destroyed Red Bay Elementary in 1967. PROGRESS 2019

This was the post ofﬁce at Frankfort when the Franklin County Courthouse was located there, when Colbert County was a part of Franklin. This included the 18491879 period.

Tommy and Billy Morgan sit for a formal portrait (year unknown).

Frankfort School students and teacher pose for a class photo in 1915.

Dr. Sevier built the above ofﬁce in 1887 on Jackson Street, Russellville. The building was torn down around 1962. 6

Will Norris and his cart, which he used to deliver mail. Norris was said to be the ﬁrst Franklin County mail carrier. PROGRESS 2019

Miss Betty Jo Shewbart, Belgreen, center, was named Franklin County Maid of Cotton in 1954. She is ﬂanked by Miss Sue Frances Wakeﬁeld, left, alternate maid, and Miss Joan Carter, 1953 Maid of Cotton.

W. H. Isbell, son of the founder of Isbell community, is shown here in a 1959 photo with his granddaughter Sandra Gaye Isbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Isbell, as she presented him with a card on his 85th birthday.

Miss Florene Clanton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. Clanton of Russellville, was Russellville’s ﬁrst contestant in the Miss Alabama Contest, held in July 1959 in Birmingham. PROGRESS 2019

This is how Jackson Avenue, Russellville, looked in the early 1930s. The shadow is cast by the Confederate monument then located in the Jackson-Franklin intersection.

The Russellville High School graduating class of 1933.

Lt. Col. J. Cecil Langcuster served in the U.S. Army from 1952-1982.

Cub Scouts plant a tree in front of Red Bay Hospital upon its opening in 1967.

Pictured is the Elmer Holden Grocery Store in the early 1950s, with Mrs. Minnie Holden, possibly her mother Mrs. Fuller and Mr. Elmer Holden. 8

Dr. Walker Dempsey attends the Red Bay Hospital opening in 1967. PROGRESS 2019

WILBUR UNDERWOOD PROGRESS 2019

Remembering

Russellville’s three movie theaters

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fter World War II, people were able to do things again. You know, rationing was so severe in World War II; you couldn’t buy cars, and you couldn’t buy tires for your cars. Gasoline was rationed, and you couldn’t go anywhere or do anything. After the war, people were looking for things to do. “The Lyric Theater was in what we called the main block, next to what is now Doe’s Eat Place. It had the glass-looking front with a small jewelry store under the façade and an upstairs attorney’s office. It was a very nice theater. “There were two brothers, Johnny and Charlie Thompson, who owned one of the grocery stores. Thompson Brothers Grocery Store was across the street on East Limestone – where Limestone ends, there is a brick church there now. It used to be the Eastside church of Christ, and it’s now a Hispanic church. Anyway, back behind their building, they owned a lot off Madison Street. They built a theater and called it The Home Theater. The Lyric was owned by an out-of-town company in Tennessee – I don’t know the name – and by the time they got The Home Theater opened, the theater company announced plans to build the Roxy.

“I was in high school then, and as a high-schooler, it was the first real large building that had been constructed in my lifetime. We would walk home from school – come to town, stop by the drugstore and get our cherry Coke – and see that big building going up. The Roxy opened in 1949, and of course it was fabulous at the time. “It put The Home out of business; it could not compete. But for a short time, we had all three theaters. The Lyric showed what we used to call B-movies, and the first-run movies were at the Roxy. Of course, The Home was trying to compete. Competition was as active then as it is now. “I went all the time, and of course we always went to the Saturday picture show. They showed a

Western and a serial every Saturday – it would be continued for weeks at a time, and that’s the way they hooked you to go to the Saturday show. “I can’t even remember the name of the first show they showed, but it was not something to my fancy; in fact, I don’t even know that I went. “The downtown area was just vibrant. All of your businesspeople basically worked six days a week then. I would go with my dad after supper on Saturday night to get a haircut. I just liked to go downtown, and sometimes you could hardly park. “It’s just a different era now. We lived a different life. People were so excited to be able to do things after the war.”

s a high-schooler, it was the first real large building that had been constructed in my lifetime. We would walk home from school – come to town, stop by the drugstore and get our cherry Coke – and see that big building going up. The Roxy opened in 1949, and of course it was fabulous at the time.”

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Remembering

the Red Bay swimming pool

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was giving thought to childhood, and I have some wonderful stories of Red Bay. My story starts around 1972 – the opening of the Red Bay swimming pool. “At that time I was in about the second grade, 8 or 9 years old, and I spent almost every day at the Red Bay swimming pool. I rode my bicycle – you don’t see a lot of kids do that in this day and time, but even at that young age, we rode our bikes everywhere. I lived one block behind the baseball field house, on Miller Street, so that was quite a ride, but in those days most kids rode their bikes to get to and from regardless of the distance. Distance was no problem. You rode your bike if you wanted to be somewhere because our parents were working in factories. “Most every day was spent at the pool. At that time, we had a high dive and a low dive. Those were the ‘good old days’ – you don’t see diving boards at pools anymore because of the liability issues. A lot of kids did some spectacular acrobatic tricks off that high dive. “The pool was very crowded and packed most days. It stayed open from one to six o’clock, so that was several hours of good hard swimming time. Most of the time, it was the same kids, same crowd, every day. Things today are so different than back then. We played so many different games, like crosspool tag … We played with intensity. It was just fun. We just loved being with friends, meeting there

every day. Everybody stayed from the time it opened until closing time. “By the time you swam for five hours straight, riding your bike back home was a challenge. We were tired. But the next day it was the same thing all over again – we loved it so much. “Years went past, and it’s really remarkable, I think, that at the age of 14, that’s where I started my first job, as a lifeguard. I lifeguarded there for five summers. So you can see, I spent a lot of time at the Red Bay swimming pool. I made a lot of good relationships with people in the community and learned a lot from my first job. I paid for my first car with that job – a Canary Yellow Ford Pinto. I was proud of it. “The best memories I have are of Carey Mills, who gave me a pretty difficult time as a lifeguard. He did some pretty outstanding tricks off the high dive. It’s pretty neat to know that he later joined the

Air Force and jumped out of airplanes. He was part of the Golden Knights – and oh, he gave me such a hard time! He wasn’t afraid of anything. And then he jumps out of airplanes. It makes you proud. “Rodney Williams, another good friend, is known very well in the community, and the flips he could turn were absolutely amazing – the stunts he could perform off the high dive. Those are vivid memories to me. “There was not much to do until the swimming pool was built in 1972, and we’re continuing that tradition. It just keeps getting better. I guess you could say that’s part of my heritage. That’s one part of Red Bay I would really love to see grow and prosper – to get grants to add to it – because kids need something to do in the summertime. That’s where I grew up, and I’m really proud of that heritage. That’s where I got my start.” “My roots are here.”

hat’s one part of Red Bay I would really love to see grow and prosper – to get grants to add to it – because kids need something to do in the summertime. That’s where I grew up, and I’m really proud of that heritage. That’s where I got my start.”

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ALICE ANN PENNINGTON

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Remembering

getting by in rural Franklin County

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was raised on a farm way back when. I’m approaching 86, so that was a lot of years ago. It was on top of Spruce Pine mountain – that’s where I lived before I married. “When I was born we lived at Spruce Pine. It was a big two-story house, and it was right next to the railroad. The whole house was about to fall down, but it’s still up there. Momma always left her doors open, and hobos would come in at night because they knew about Momma’s place, and they would come in and eat. They never stole anything or hurt anything; they just came in for the food. She would always leave food for them. She had 10 children – of course, some of them was grown, and I had a sister who married they day after I was born, I think. Momma had a reputation of feeding all the kids in Spruce Pine. She would always cook

and have a table full of food, and they knew about it and would always manage to get to her house for dinner. “It was hard work on the farm. I picked cotton – I had a long sack, and you put the strap around your shoulder and went down the row picking cotton. Then they would weigh it and put it on the truck and haul it to the gin to have it ginned – and I helped get corn in. Back then school would turn out for two weeks for us to pick cotton. We would go to my brother’s house in Liberty Hill and help pick cotton. “When I married we went to Illinois, and he got a job to work for Caterpillar Tractor. There were no jobs around here. There were a lot of people who went up there and to different places. We stayed there two or three years, and then we came back down here. “We had a place rented down on the creek over here – I can’t remember the

omma always left her doors open, and hobos would come in at night because they knew about Momma’s place, and they would come in and eat. They never stole anything or hurt anything; they just came in for the food. She would always leave food for them.”

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man who owned it back when we rented it – but my husband worked at rentals and at Robbins Tire and Lumber company. When he left to go to work, everything was left for me to do. We farmed, and I had to haul the pickers to the field and take them home after they picked cotton all day. I had 10-15 or so pickers picking way down a steep grove. One day I picked them up, and I was driving out, and the truck stalled with me. It was on the side of a bluff, and a little narrow gravel road was the only way you could get to it. It was just about at the falling off place, and it stopped. They all got off and walked out. After they got off, it lightened up so I could drive it on out. “I didn’t know to do anything but what was before me to do, so I did whatever it was. And I raised nine kids. “I had a grandma on my husband’s side – she was a Jackson, and she was a faith healer. We had a furnace for heat, and Jackie, my daughter, fell on it when she was little. It burned her pretty bad. We put her in the car and took her to Grandma Jackson’s house, and she said some stuff and blew on it, and by the time we started up the mountain, Jackie quit crying, and it never left a scar or anything. When my babies would get thrush in their mouths, we could call Grandma Jackson on the phone, and she would cure it. I had an uncle who was a faith healer too. “I hadn’t thought about all of that in so long.”

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Remembering

falling in love and managing James Department Store

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came out of the service in 1960, and a friend of mine that worked with me at Clark’s Department Store before I went to Michigan, Ralph Wells – he never called me by my name, Orland; he called me Roland. He said “Roland, you aren’t never going to amount to a damn thing if you don’t get you a good woman.” We walked down the block to H.B. White’s 5&10 Cent Store, and there stood my wife-to-be. She had no idea what was happening. We walked in and he said, ‘Gracie, this is Roland. Roland, this is Gracie. I guess y’all can figure out the rest of it.’ Ralph Wells really did me a favor, introducing me to Grace Ann. I always told Ralph how much I appreciated that. “I had sold my car before I went in the Army. I had the prettiest car – a ’55 pink and white Crown Victoria Ford, Tropical Rose. When I got out of the Army, I bought a new Chevrolet, and Grace and I dated in that Chevrolet. We never went to bars and honky-tonks and that kind of stuff. I always took her somewhere her parents wouldn’t be ashamed of. We’d go eat – went to a lot of places we’d like to go to together, and we’d go with other couples – and there’d be square dances on Friday and Saturday nights in Haleyville and Russellville, and you’d meet a lot of good people there. “We were on date, and I had the ring in my car, and I pulled it out and gave it

to her, and she said yes. She was tickled. I think she was kind of expecting it, so she said yes, and we’ve been married 54 years.”

“James Department Store was down the street from Clark’s Department Store. Their sister Laura James had the store for many, many years when she was single, but she met a man and married him, and that left the two brothers owning the store. Things weren’t going good, and they were looking for somebody. They were dissatisfied with their present manager – he wasn’t a good manager. So they were looking for somebody. “Mother found out about it, so Mother set up the deal that they would talk to me. I got a 30-day absence from my job in Michigan and worked 30 days, and they hired me. I went back to Michigan, quit my job there and came back home. I was doing a good job, and they were happy, and everything was fine. I stayed with them for 12 years. “It was great. I had about six or seven full time employees. It was a two-story building, and we had a balcony at the top. They let me spend a lot of money and remodel the store – completely remodel it. I closed on Friday and stayed closed the whole week and reopened the following Monday, and it was all new and really had a different look about it. We

e never went to bars and honky-tonks and that kind of stuff. I always took her somewhere her parents wouldn’t be ashamed of.”

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had the look of the ’30s and ’40s, and we need to get modernistic. We put in new counters and new fixtures – we wanted to look new and modern, and we did. People would come in and say, ‘Sorry, I’m in the wrong store.’ It was virtually new – the ceilings, the walls, everything. We added merchandise, and we really did good. “My only brother had worked there with me, and we probably would have bought the store one day, but he was coming to work one morning and had an automobile accident and was killed. Mine and his dream was running the store together. I stayed on, but I knew the store could not generate the money I really wanted. “I saw the handwriting on the wall. You can only generate so much money in a store. I just saw that I had a better chance at doing something else, and that’s what I did – went into the mobile home business and then the banking business, as branch manager at Citizens Bank and then Community Spirit Bank, and that’s where I retired.”

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Remembering

running the press for the Franklin County Times

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worked for Russellville Flowercraft for about two years, then I started with G.C. Lingerie, a garment factory in Muscle Shoals. I worked there for a couple years, and then I learned the Franklin County Times was wanting to hire and train a pressman. “Mr. Claude Sparks owned it, and he interviewed me. They wanted somebody to train to be a pressman who didn’t know nothing about it. They had hired people who were supposed to know, and they were tearing up the presses. So, Mr. Sparks hired me, and they trained me to be a pressman. We made an agreement: If I didn’t work out in 90 days, if I wasn’t suitable to him, I would be dismissed. I took the job because I knew I could do it. “So they started training me on the presses, and he agreed to give me a raise. I started working for 60 cents less than I was making at G.C. Lingerie – that was back when you made $1.50 an hour – I was making $2.10 an hour, but I took the job making $1.50 to train to be a pressman. So the agreement was after 90 days, if I did OK, he’d raise me back up to $2.10, and in 90 days, he did. He kept his word, and he kept me on. And every year he gave me a raise – I didn’t have to ask for it.

“I learned every press in the operation. I was mostly in commercial printing, but he also trained me to run the newspaper. We’d take turns about running the newspaper, so I ran the newspaper for eight years – Franklin Times, Red Bay News. I also got up at four o’clock in the morning then and delivered the papers – same thing I’m doing now. Mr. Sparks depended a lot on me. “I really enjoyed working for Mr. Sparks. He was a good man to work for, and he took care of his employees. I was honored to work for him. He took care of me, and I ran the presses for him and made him money. “I enjoyed working in the pressroom. It takes a special person to learn to run printing presses; you have to be well mechanically-minded. We went through a lot of men back there. Some of them never made it. It was my place to train them to run the press, and if they didn’t work out, it was my place to tell Mr. Sparks. If I told him they weren’t going to work out, he let them go. He trusted my word.”

really enjoyed working for Mr. Sparks. He was a good man to work for, and he took care of his employees. I was honored to work for him.”

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fishing on the Bear Creek Lakes

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rowing up living here, if you go to other places and you mention Franklin County, folks will say, ‘Oh, you’re by those lakes. There’s good fishing there. I remember me and my grandpa, Robert Baldwin, we did a lot of that – fishing in the Little Bear and the Big Bear. “Big Bear is basically in my front yard. In the morning I can see the fog over the water. You just see a big cloud of fog on those kinds of mornings. “Hand-in-hand with that goes hunting. I grew up on a farm, and we hunted and fished and farmed every day – like the Luke Bryan song, ‘huntin’ and fishin’ and lovin’ every day,’ except it was huntin’ and fishin’ and farmin’ every day. “My grandpa and I would go out in a boat, and it would be really, really cold. I would be freezing. We would be in the boat, and we would leave at daylight, putting the boat in the water before the sun came up. I would wrap up in a blanket and lay in the front of the boat as we would go from spot to spot. “When you’re on the water, fishing or swimming or whatever you’re doing, and you’ve got a can of potted meat or beanee weenees or something wouldn’t eat at home, it’s like a steak on the water. Pawpaw would bring potted meat and beanee weenees and saltine crackers, and we loved it.

“We spent a lot of time together, and I wish I had those old days back because I would have asked a lot more questions. You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. It was just so much fun. I have always been drawn to older people, and they become my friends. I don’t have a lot of friends my age. My grandpa was pretty much my best friend. Looking back on it, there was so much more time I could have spent, things I could have done – questions I could have asked. “My grandpa fished with a lot of different people. Everybody wanted to fish with my grandpa – but when you’re in the boat, you’re a certain distance apart, and if the other guy was catching more fish, Pawpaw would act like the wind was blowing, and the boat would ‘magically’ turn so he would be where the fish were at.”

y grandpa was pretty much my best friend. Looking back on it, there was so much more time I could have spent, things I could have done – questions I could have asked.”

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Remembering

playing youth baseball

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he first thing that comes to my mind about going to the ballpark is the ping of the bat. When you play the game, it’s the sounds that come with it. You could tell how good the hit was by the sound of the bat – that has changed a little bit now with the compression bats – but that was the telltale sign, the sound that you heard. “A dirt infield was all we knew. You get a different kind of hop playing on a dirt infield as compared to the grass. “I loved baseball. I thrived on never missing one that was thrown to me – on not striking out. I was blessed to have the ability to play, and I did not want to strike out. I worked at it – and that ultimately was what led to me playing in college, that I didn’t strike out but four times in my high school career. “After playing in college, I started being a high school baseball coach. Field maintenance was just an afterthought – you knew everything about how to get the field ready for a ballgame because we did it when we played. You didn’t have field crews and managers – the kids got the field ready. There was nothing I didn’t know about getting a field ready when I became a head coach. “I just have a lot of memories around baseball – how it’s changed, now, but how it really changed my life, too. Not only did I get the opportunity to play in college but it led me to being at Vina, where I coached for 20-plus years. We were fortunate enough to have a lot of success. “If you look at all the stadiums now, how they’ve changed from the ’80s – I mean, look at Vina. You could go right now, and it’s the middle of winter, and at the baseball fields in my school system, the grass is green as it can be. Times have changed because baseball was not ‘the’ sport in the ’80s, but now it’s become a year-round sport for a lot of people … It’s just really grown, and a lot of success in my life that has gotten me to this position has been tied to baseball in some way. It’s had a lot of positive impact in my life.”

just have a lot of memories around baseball – how it’s changed, now, but how it really changed my life, too.”

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Remembering

childhood at the King Frosty and downtown Russellville

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have people come in my office and talk about how much they miss going to get a hotdog or a barbecue because they miss that good taste.”

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’ve got so many stories and memories of growing up. Something a lot of people would remember is, where David Grissom has had the Cash Spot, what’s underneath that building is the original fast food restaurant in Russellville, which was built in 1951. It was a smaller building that was added onto later: Norris-King Frosty. “My dad had it built the year I was born. We were living in Tennessee at the time, and he built that for his mother to having something to do. His father was a printer here in town, and he had the first commercial printing company. We moved back to Russellville – my daddy and his parents and all were from Russellville, so Russellville goes back a long way in my family – when I was 4 years old because my grandfather got in real bad health. He had a brain tumor and got to where he couldn’t run the printing business anymore. “I was the youngest of four children. My dad took over the printing business, and my mother took over the running of King Frosty. King Frosty was kind of an iconic place because it was the first place that served ice cream and milkshakes and slushes, and they had their own recipes for hotdogs and barbecue and cheeseburgers and the things that went with fast food restuarants. “I grew up working half time in the print shop and half time in the Frosty. People who are older will remember how good the hotdogs and barbecue were because they had their own recipe for the slaw that would go on both of those. I have people come in my office and talk about how much they miss going to get a hotdog or barbecue because they miss that good taste in their mouths. “I have often said Daddy built that place or kept it all those years just to be able to feed his family because not only did all of us work there growing up but whenever we were hungry, we would go up there and get whatever we wanted. “Downtown was such a bustling place. All the traffic would come right through the middle of downtown Russellville until the bypass. We lived downtown; the house I grew up in is still standing behind city hall. So I walked or rode my bicycle anywhere I wanted to go. We had a big yard, and our yard was kind of the football field or baseball field or whatever. Eastside Park had a huge grandstand going all the way down the left field line and right field line. Every small town back in those days had a semi-pro baseball team, and I can remember – he was like an uncle to me – the man who coached and managed the team for several years, and I was bat boy growing up. We traveled all over north Alabama to other towns that had the same setup. Baseball was a big deal back in those days. Guys would work their jobs during the day and then a couple nights a week go play baseball.”

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Russellville’s win streak of 1967-68

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came to Franklin County in 1965. My brother Pete coached here in 1952-61 – he died in May of ’61 at the age of 37, unexpectedly. I knew a lot about Russellville; we played Russellville my junior and senior years, so I got to know the Russellville players really well. My brother really loved Russellville. It didn’t take long until I understood why. “I did my student teaching here in the spring of 1965 … John Blackwell was the assistant coach who came with my brother in ’52; he went into the Distributive Education program, and I had a major in biology, and he was teaching biology, so I just took his slot. My wife also came, and she worked here 35 years and was the cheerleading coach for 18 years and retired in 2000, and I retired in ’09. So we were very blessed that we had a whole career here. I coached for 10 years, I was the assistant principal, then principal. I was principal at the high school 16 years, assistant principal seven years, assistant superintendent seven years and then superintendent for about nine. They kept trying to find something I could do, I guess. “Russellville is a special place. Rarely do you find a community that supports the school totally

like they do in Russellville. At one time at the high school, we probably had the longest-tenured teachers of anywhere in north Alabama. “When I came here, the second year we started the win streak … We built the stadium in ’66 when the city passed the tobacco tax, and the booster club helped a great deal. We were playing Walker County, which is Jasper now. It was raining … I think we beat them 40-6. The first play we ran an 80-yard touchdown. Jimmy Lovett ran it, and he came to the sideline, flipped the ball to Coach W and said, ‘It’s christened!’ “We had quite a run there and won the state championship. In the first 3A play-off championship game we played Cherokee County here and beat them 20-6, and the second game we played Colbert County – Leighton – and they were big rivals back then. We played them in Florence and beat them for the ’67 championship. “The second year we played Troy – Charles Henderson – and they were really good, but we beat them 10-7 on a field goal … We played Saks the next week in Anniston. They played at the stadium in Anniston – that was their home field. Our

stadium was a little bigger – it wasn’t a matter of having enough seating. Bubba Scott was the executive director of the Alabama High School Athletic Association, and he coached at Haleyville the ’50s … Haleyville had some good teams, but at one time I think Russellville beat them three years in a row. There was a lot of rivalry – big crowds. Anyway, Bubba wasn’t a favorite of the fans in Russellville because he had such good teams in Haleyville … and he decided then where the championship games were played, so he chose Anniston. Well that riled everybody up because all the fans here thought we should be playing here. “So we go to Saks, and they were undefeated, but it was one of those nights where everything went our way. We beat them 51-13. “They gave their coach a new car after the game – he’d coached there a long time – but we brought home the trophy. “We got into the play-off the next year, but we had some of our best players hurt. We got beat by Muscle Shoals and lost to Sylacauga. “But I was fortunate enough to experience that all during my assistant coach tenure.”

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’ve lived my entire life in Franklin County. I graduated from Russellville High School, and I began teaching at Belgreen High School in 2004. I spent a few years at Belgreen, and then I transferred to Tharptown High School when they built the new high school; I was a teacher and coach here at Belgreen, and I transferred to Tharptown to be a teacher and a coach. “I spent roughly nine years at Tharptown, and then I went to Russellville High School. From Russellville I accepted an assistant principal position back in Belgreen. “At Tharptwon, they were in the process of starting a high school and starting new athletic programs, so I decided to go over to Tharptown and help them with this process. It was a learning process for everybody. You were bringing in secondary teachers and new administration … and I remember when we played the first high school games for baseball and basketball and football. “Just being there when that was all started from the ground up is something I will definitely remember. It was a whole community effort – to come out and really support us starting the new programs.

he one primary reason we do this job is to educate children – to make sure we’re teaching them the things they need to prepare for in life and get them ready for what happens after high school. It’s really been a blessing to do what I’ve done.”

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very year the senior class would do pranks in school. The worst senior prank I ever had done to me was while I was here at Belgreen. We had some seniors who decided it would be funny to put 300 crickets in my classroom. I had the sound of crickets chirping for several weeks until I caught every last cricket. At first I was very upset, but then I got to thinking about it; I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to let them slide by on that one.’”

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You have to buy all-new equipment, you have to have facilities, and you have to learn all the new AHSAA rules, what they require from you. Your teachers have to know what they can teach; you’re hiring a whole new staff, and the staff is trying to get used to the community and new administration. “We all learned from each other. To be able to experience that was definitely something special. You realized, we’ve got to come together, we’ve got to decide the necessary steps we need to go through to do the proper things we need to be doing. There are so many guidelines the state requires to be recognized as a high school. The Franklin County school board did an excellent job with the transition. “At the time it was just a junior high, and the thoughts of this being a very large school – now look at it. Look how much it’s grown. Look at all the buildings that have been built. It’s a 2A school now. “Of course, that is where I came in contact with Coach Smith. He was toward the end of his career, and he had asked me to help be one of his assistant football coaches. To listen to the stories of all the different schools he coached at in the county and all the connections he had made was just amazing. “I had known about Coach Smith for a long time. He was kind of a legend in this county and had coached different places. When he was hired, I had no intention of helping coach football. I was head baseball coach at the time. He comes over to the baseball field one day and said, I really want you to help coach football with me, and Coach Smith is one of those guys who it’s hard to say no to. He’s friendly and enjoyable to be around, and he talked me into it – and it was one of the best experiences I’ve had working with a group of guys, especially him. We were very close. We were just a few seconds away, very close, from carrying Tharptown to the playoffs for the first time. “We had a retirement ceremony for him his last year at Tharptown, and he and I still have a great relationship. I still call him occasionally and ask him questions. He’s still one I lean on for answers. “I tell people all the time, there’s just no place like Franklin County. I personally feel the Franklin County school system and the Russellville city school system are some of the best school systems around. The one primary reason we do this job is to educate children – to make sure we’re teaching them the things they need to prepare for in life and get them ready for what happens after high school. It’s really been a blessing to do what I’ve done.” PROGRESS 2019

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retired with 40 years of coaching, and I coached at all the county schools that had football. One of the bigger things that happened was when I was coaching at Red Bay and we came to Russellville and won. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I left Hackleburg in Marion to take the job at Red Bay in 1989, and I was there three years. We had some pretty good teams, but the last two years, we had contracted Russellville to play. The year we were stronger and thought we had a great chance to win was the first year, but we wound up getting beat. The second year we went back to Russellville and won the ballgame in Russellville by one point.

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“I

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“I remember parents rushing in. At that time there were four of us in my family; my brothers were in school, and my sister hadn’t started. I remember my mother, Gwen Kennedy, rushing up, and she had tears in her eyes – she was trying to make sure she found all of us. Everybody was trying to find their children. People were having to park away from the school because the parking just got worse and worse. “Fortunately, no one was hurt, and everyone got out safely. “We were all shocked. A lot of people were crying. I don’t remember crying; it was just amazing to see. We were shocked and confused and not really sure what was going on, but I do remember a lot of the girls crying … I remember the men teachers, there are pictures of them helping with the hoses – and maybe some of the older boys. Everyone was pitching in, trying to do what they could, but there wasn’t much that could be done to save it. They wanted to save the junior high, which was connected, and the lunchroom. Fortunately it stopped there, so everybody was glad about that. “We were out of school for a week, and then classes were set up in different buildings. Fifth and sixth grade went to the First Baptist Church, and the parsonage next doors was empty, so the first grade went there. I believe the fourth grade went to the church of Christ, and maybe the third grade went to the Masonic Lodge. I think they found places on campus for the second grade. “At lunchtime buses would take us to the lunchroom and then take us back. They would send a bus for the band students.

“It was kind of a difficult time, but you know, we managed the best we could. It was a little crowded. We had regular-sized desks, and I go to church there now and look in those rooms and think, ‘How did we fit all those people in there?’ It was just wall-to-wall desks, and the teacher had a desk. But we managed. It wasn’t a hardship to us. We were young, and it was something different. We had fun times there. “What’s interesting is, the school before this one that was in Bay Tree Park burned in the ’20s, and they also housed the classes in churches. Where else could they have gone? “It was major for the whole town, to lose something like that. There were a lot of memories there. The auditorium was attached to the elementary, so of course it burned, and there were a lot of memories of graduations, and we used to have cantatas and operettas. The school was a large part of the social aspect of town. We had junior high plays, senior high plays, musical revues and recitals. “It definitely left an impression on us.

e were all shocked. A lot of people were crying. I don’t remember crying; it was just amazing to see. We were shocked and confused and not really sure what was going on.

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“I

moved into this community when I was in the fifth grade, and I’m now 58 years old, fixing to be 59 in February. We moved down here from the state of Illinois; my dad bought the property he still lives on now, and I still live in the community here in East Franklin. “The year prior, the schoolhouse in this area had burned, and there was no school to go. So the Oak Grove churches, Oak Grove Missionary Baptist and Oak Grove Freewill Baptist offered their facilities for us to go to school in. So I went from a nice school – when we first moved down here, I went to Russellville for a year – to a church house to go to school in. That was called the Union High School – the one that burned. The only thing that was left of it was the lunchroom. We were bussed from the churches at lunchtime to the lunchroom, and then we went back over to the church to finish the school day. “The day East Franklin Junior High School was completed, which took the place of the old Union High School, we thought we were in seventh heaven – brand new school, big gymnasium, whole nine yards. The gym doubled as the lunchroom; they would set the gym up with tables and stuff, and we would have lunch in the gym.

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“I have a lot of fond memories of people who are still in the community and people who have passed on. I can drive down the road and think back to ‘Oh, so and so, lived there,’ drive down the road and name off the people who have passed out of this world into the next. There was a gentleman in the community that ran a store, Uncle Tommy, or Tom Morgan … Another little store in the community, Pete and Lurlene Harris ran that one. Another little store, I forget the gentleman’s first name, but it was Bishop’s store. All these little stores found the usual things you find in a convenience store – cold drinks and snack and bread, things like that. “There are still a lot of people in the community who are really good people. If I had to pick a community to live in, this would be it. If you get in a bind, people are always there to help, and the churches in this area are phenomenal; whatever need there is in the community, they are always ready to step up and give money to a cause or help somebody who is having a hard time. It’s not called a hand out – it’s a hand up. That’s the way they do it here. “In 2011 when the storm came through here, we lost five people in this community that day.

couldn’t have been luckier than for my parents to pick this area for me to live in.”

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With a tight-knit community, that’s pretty tough loss. But the people in this community really stepped up during that time period. The fire department and community members set up a disaster relief area at the school. Tony Hodge ran that center; he was the assistant chief at the time and still is. “My home was completely destroyed, along with my dad’s and my son’s and my brother’s and my other brother’s. It destroyed everything. And my dad was in the hospital; we had to fly him to Birmingham. Since the tornado had gotten all six of my dad’s poultry houses, I was having to get all that squared away and disposed of and buried, so I wasn’t really able to help with the disaster relief. Tony and the community members did a fantastic job on that. People stepped up, and they were there for people in this community – cutting trees and trying to get to the people who were injured. It’s a super fantastic community. All the people are great. “I couldn’t have been luckier than for my parents to pick this area for me to live in.”

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