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Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and this colorful krewe was a hit at the 2023 Madison Christmas Parade on Sunday. After being postponed Saturday due to the threat of severe weather, the parade made its way down Hughes Road in perfect conditions. The “big man” himself, Santa, was all smiles as he waved to thousands of people lining the streets. For more photos from the parade, see page 4A and go to our Facebook page for The Madison Record.
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A crowd tries to catch one of the many rubber chickens thrown from the top of a downtown Madison building in the unusual, but heart-warming, local tradition. Photo by John Few
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How tossing rubber chickens off a roof became a Christmas event By MARIA RAKOCZY maria@themadisonrecord.com
MADISON - Chickens flying off a rooftop may not be the tradition that immediately comes to mind when you think of Christmas, but in Madison, it’s a nearly one-hundredyear-old tradition beloved by locals that spreads Christmas cheer and gifts to the streets of Madison. This year, Madison residents and visitors alike are invited to gather on Main Street and be a part of this unique, local tradition on Saturday, Dec. 16
at 4 p.m. The tradition, known as the Madison Christmas Capers, is believed to have originated in the late 1920s or 1930s by local drugstore owner Doc Hughes. Hughes would climb atop his drugstore in downtown Madison on Christmas Eve and drop live guinea fowl from the roof to shoppers on the street below. The live birds, a type that could fly farther than the common chicken of today, added an element of excitement and surprise to the activity. Local historian John Rankin said,
“That was what made it interesting is that there was a scramble. You couldn’t just stay in one place. You don’t know where they’re going to fly or for how far they’d fly.” One story even tells of one of the birds flying all the way across the street and causing a mob to chase after it, destroying a neighbor’s newly erected fence in the process. The chickens were indeed highly sought-after prizes. Each bird had a small prize or a gift certificate to be redeemed at the drugstore attached to it, See CAPERS Page 3A
MADISON - There may be some good news for holiday travelers this year. Average gasoline prices in the Madison and Huntsville area have fallen 5.8 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.79 a gallon, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 261 stations in the greater Huntsville area. Prices are 16.6 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 6.6 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 8.4 cents in the last week and stands at $4.10 per gallon. According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in the area was priced at $2.46 per gallon over the weekend while the most expensive was $3.19 per gallon, a difference of 73 cents per gallon. The lowest price in the state was $2.43 while the highest was $3.58. The national average price of gasoline has fallen 9.6 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.11 over the weekend. The national average is down 23.7 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 10.1 cents per gallon lower than a year ago, according to GasBuddy. “For the 12th straight week, or three straight months, the national average has continued to decline, now at its lowest level of 2023 heading into the prime of the See GAS Page 4A
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The Rocket City Trash Pandas hosted their annual Breakfast with Santa at Toyota Field in Madison on Saturday. The event included a tasty buffet, photo opportunities with Jolly Saint Nick, and holiday activities. The Trash Pandas are currently hosting their Rocket City Christmas Light Show each night with nearly one million Christmas lights. The musically synchronized, drive-through Christmas Light Show and Winter Wonderland inside Toyota Field return for the fourth straight year and this year’s theme is set as “Santa’s Favorite Tales” with a nod to Jolly Ol’ St. Nick’s favorite tales & nursery rhymes like the Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks, Humpty Dumpty, Snow White, and many more! Full details and tickets are available at TrashPandasChristmas.com.
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MADISON – A slogan for the Food Bank of North Alabama summarizes its current request: “Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer.” Author Unknown In 2022, Food Bank of North Alabama successfully distributed more than 12 million pounds of food. This accomplishment depended on volunteers who helped Food Bank employees to inspect, sort and pack food. Volunteers’ efforts assist the Food Bank in allotting food to partner agencies who then give the food to residents. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old. Volunteer shifts involve sorting and inspecting donated food at a Food Bank warehouse. Volunteers also pack produce for students and their families during the school year. The warehouse environment requires extended standing and walking on concrete. The Madison warehouse’s address is 9312 Madison Blvd. (just west of Westchester Road). Slots are available on Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and on Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The Huntsville ware-
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but in the Great Depression era, the bird was a prize in and of itself. Those lucky shoppers who managed to catch one of the flying chickens had secured Christmas dinner for themselves. Rankin explained, “What you need to know about small towns in those days was nobody had any money. They couldn’t afford anything, farmers in particular. This town was populated and grew its business by farmers. So, farmers of all races would come in for Christmas shopping once a year, usually on Christmas Eve.” He went on, “So, the chicken toss was the only hope they might have for somebody’s chicken other than their own to be killed for Christmas dinner. Otherwise, they might have cornbread and turnip greens for Christmas dinner. That’s all there was.” Hughes’ drugstore was one of the prime shopping spots for farmers from surrounding areas as it acted as a onestop-shop, selling most everything except clothing. The Christmas chicken toss also perhaps added to Hughes’ good reputation as a trustworthy businessman, pharmacist, and later as mayor of Madison. “Doc had general toys and pharmaceutical stuff. That’s why he was the ‘doctor’. People could come in and get free doctor advice but he was not a doctor, but he knew everything. He had seen every illness. He talked to people who were doctors in town,” Rankin said. As to why Hughes started the tradition of the chicken toss, Rankin suggested, “He was a good businessman. He wasn’t just a pharmacist.” The tradition carried on for many years and even shifted venues from the drugstore to a water tower that once stood in downtown Madison. The event is believed to have continued well into the second half of the twentieth century until Hughes’ death in the 1970s, after which, it took a prolonged hiatus. Then, in 2019, in celebration of the city’s sesquicentennial, its 150th anniversary, the Christmas Capers was revived with the help of Rankin, Debbie Overcash, president of the Madison Station Historical Preservation Society, and Doc Hughes’ grandsons, Walt and Larry Anderson. “The mayor appointed John Rankin and I as chairmen of the sesquicentennial committee, and we arranged different activities each month in 2019, and it culminated with the reenactment of the Christmas Capers,” Overcash recalled. “We went to area businesses, the airport, and we got prizes valuing a little over, the first year, $4,000.” The sesquicentennial committee replaced the live chickens Hughes used to throw with twenty rubber chickens. Each rubber chicken has a number attached to its leg that corresponds to a gift bag full of goodies and gift certificates from local businesses. The first reenactment was such a success that the tradition was picked up by the Madison Station Historical Preservation Society and has continued for the last four years,
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It was a horrible, sickening phone call. Within a few seconds, my hopes and dreams were crushed like someone stepping on a Coke can. And to think my mom did it! Let me elaborate. Growing up, I was a comic book kid. Beginning about the age of 8, I began to make pilgrimages to a couple of nearby drug stores. There I would spend my allowance in 12 cent increments to follow the escapades of Superman, Batman, The Flash, and Aquaman. I especially loved Batman because of his gadgets, his Bat-cave, and his sidekick, Robin. A teen-aged superhero was something I could relate to. So I got my crayons, and began coloring an old T-shirt until I had a poor facsimile Robin’s uniform. An old piece of cloth became a mask, and an unfinished bathroom in our basement became my Bat-cave. I became a pre-puberty superhero, who’s job was to patrol our neighborhood and stop any crime that I saw - of which there was none. And it’s a good thing, because with a utility belt full of homemade weaponry, I would’ve been a formidable opponent for any bad guy (or another 8 year old).I especially liked one device I created - a long piece of string with large wooden spools tied to each end. Properly thrown, the twine would wrap around a supervillain’s (aka my little sister’s) legs, causing them to trip and fall. Then while they tried to untangle themselves, I would douse them with a packet of itching powder I had bought at a magic store. Take that, law breaker. One day, I spotted a new comic on the drug store rack - The Amazing Spiderman. Spidey was a wisecracking, smart-alec, whose alter ego was an insecure high school kid. I could relate the issues he faced: bullied by classmates, couldn’t get the girl. I was hooked from the first page. Soon, I began buying
For Christmas, residents can show a gesture of appreciation to police officers and firefighters with the “Adopt a Hero” initiative.
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MADISON - Students at James Clemens High School are tackling obstacles to personal social connections in the age of social media with the help of the Department of Homeland Security’s Invent to Prevent program. Invent to Prevent is a program supported by the DHS, EdVenture Partners, McCain Institute, and Credence Management Solutions, LLC to encourage high school and college students to develop innovative solutions and preventative measures to targeted violence. The James Clemens High School chapter of
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grade because that’s where we see most kids getting phones and using it daily.” The team was inspired to take on this topic by their research findings and own firsthand observations of the exposure of children to social media at younger ages than ever before. “We all personally have and utilize social media in our daily lives,” Gowder said. “Because of this, we realized, through our research, that social media was being exposed to an even younger age group than we originally were. In addition, each member of our Invent 2 Prevent team vol- Members of the James Clemens Invent to Prevent team: Oviya Gowder, unteers at various clubs and or- Qyler Bowie, Hannah Park, Neyan Sezhian, Kassidy Tidwell, Erik Wu, and See INVENT TO PREVENT Page 8A Sahithi Myampally.
Fellow elementary student families, teachers and staff provide gifts for Heritage Angel Tree Bob Jones Theatre participated in the state-level Walter Trumbauer Theatre Festival on the campus of the University of North Alabama on Dec. 1-2. The student actors and technical crew returned with a huge number of awards. Drama teachers Jesse Tilton and Mary Davis, second row at left, served as Technical Director and as Director, respectively, of the one-act play, “Where Words Once Were.”
Bob Jones actors win armloads of awards at state Trumbauer By GREGG PARKER gregg@themadisonrecord.com MADISON – Countless hours of memorizing lines, staying in character and convincing the audience to suspend belief resulted in a huge payoff for actors and technical crew in Bob Jones Theatre. After qualifying at the district competition, Bob Jones participated in the state-level Walter Trumbauer Theatre Festival at the University of North Alabama on Dec. 1-2. For 2023, Bob Jones performed “Where Words Once Were” by Finegan Kruckemeyer, a drama “set in a dystopian time where language is rationed, a sentence can
get you sentenced and the silent are rising,” according to Mary Davis, drama teacher and director. Davis handles the on-stage ensemble of actors, while her colleague Jesse Tilton mentors the ‘techies’ or technical crew. Awards for the one-act play included “Best in Show” and “Best Costumes.” Harley Dauma earned the “Alabama Conference of Theatre Scholarship for Acting”; only two of these scholarships are presented for the entire state. Qualifying for the “All-Star Cast” at the state festival were Elizabeth Booth, Harley Dauma, Rian Edwards, Jaxon McClanathan and Drayton Walker. “In Individual Event Awards,
we had 14 trophies for first, second and third places. Our students earned 50 Superior ratings and 28 Excellent ratings,” Davis said. Numerous individuals and duets in various categories by Bob Jones students earned place wins: • Solo Pantomime -- Suzanne Roach (novice), third place. • Reader’s Theatre -- Harley Dauma and T.J. Sanders (Intermediate), third; Teagan Leo and Arden Vanzoeren (Intermediate), first; Liam Robertson and Evan Willis (Varsity), first. • Dramatic Monologue (19752004) -- Lew Petersson (Intermediate), third. • Comedic Monologue (1975See BOB JONES Page 8A
By GREGG PARKER gregg@themadisonrecord.com MADISON – Student families, faculty and staff at Heritage Elementary School are proving that ‘it is more blessed to give than to receive’ with their contributions to the Heritage Angel Tree. The Angel Tree is a tradition at Heritage . . . “so that our people are getting to help our people,” School Counselor Casey Gaines said. The tree “provides holiday support for Heritage families in need. Our families look forward to contributing each year.” Parents or guardians of Heritage families in need can list “a want, a need, something to wear and something to read for their children,” Gaines said. “All children are anonymous with no identifying information listed.” Heritage gift-givers can access an online spreadsheet that lists each family and child (for example,
“Family A: Boy #1”). The “Need” for the child, like school clothes and shoes, appears in one column, as does the “Want” for him or her, such as yo-yos, a skateboard or “anything Spiderman.” The spreadsheet also states the child’s sizes for clothing and shoes; requested reading material, like Harry Potter selections, “Pete the Cat” books or a Bible; favorite color; and age. The sponsor then completes the contact information. Sponsors can sign up for one individual or for an entire family on the Heritage Angel Tree. At their discretion, sponsors can buy a child’s requested gifts or buy as many extra gifts as they want. Gaines has seen a consistent need for winter clothes and accessories from each family that returned their form. These families, although living in a well-to-do community See TREE Page 8A
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“We’ve made history by our big win at Muscle Shoals, and every Journey Jaguar is so proud of our team. We needed more hands to carry our trophies,” Joshi said. At Muscle Shoals, Journey won 14 individual awards and a team award for each grade level: • Team awards -- For team trophies, officials take the top four scores for written test and ciphering. Place wins were: sixth grade, second place; seventh grade, first place; and eighth grade, third place. • Individual awards – Awarded to top 10 students overall per grade level. Sixth grade: Ivy Zhang, second; Wylie Savage, fifth; Tony Hughes, seventh; Rohan Sahoo, eighth; and Marlon Ross, ninth. Seventh grade: Aryana Baria, first; Austin Zhu, second; Valen Bell, fifth; Charvisri Donthala, seventh; Timothy McKee, eighth; and Grace Mehta, ninth. Eighth grade: Sophia Jerez, fourth; Riley Medders, sixth; and Cole
Mrinal Joshi, back and second from left, peers through several trophies that Journey Middle School’s Math Team won at the Vestavia Hills High School Math Tournament. Accompanying Joshi, Journey Math Team members hold their individual awards. Joshi is Mathematics Department Head at Journey and sponsors Math Team. Pieratt, tenth. Math Team is a fastpaced, competition-team class with much higher than grade-level teaching. “We ask those students to join who have a mathematically strong foundation, are self-motivated to
learn and compete, and take full responsibility for their own learning. I always tell my math team members that I can’t do it alone . . . we have to work together to succeed. That’s why it is called a See JOURNEY Page 8A
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The Cottage at 1818 Farms expands beloved Mooresville destination By GREGG PARKER gregg@themadisonrecord.com MOORESVILLE – The idyllic setting of 1818 Farms in Mooresville has expanded recently to include a historic building, The Cottage at 1818 Farms, which will provide space for special events, workshops and a showroom. Owners Natasha and Laurence McCrary returned to his circa 1826 family home in Mooresville in 2005 to live near relatives and raise their children. Laurence’s family has lived in Mooresville for seven generations. The McCrarys founded 1818 Farms in 2012 and adopted a comprehensive mission statement: “Life the way it used to be . . . Preserving history and honoring tradition by working a sustainable farm, producing handmade products and educating the public on the value of self-sufficiency, craftsmanship and a strong sense of community.” The farm’s animal residents include Babydoll Southdown sheep, a Nubian goat, cats, hens, miniature pigs and Great Pyrenees guardian dogs. An adjacent field contains more than 14,000 flowers. 1818 Farms is named for the year that Mooresville was incorporated, one year before Alabama earned statehood. For years, Natasha had dreamed about additional space for workshops and special events. “I’ve utilized every inch of existing space available at the farm.” In summer of 2023, she “was approached by my sweet, farm neighbors asking if I would be interested in their home once they moved to another home in Mooresville,” Natasha said about buying the property. The cottage at 4934 Market Street occupies the corner with Old Highway 20 and Mooresville Road. “Its front porch literally overlooks 1818 Farms. This historic cottage was the perfect answer for expansion,” Natasha said. The McCrarys purchased the cottage from Joelle Ward and her husband Leo Brown, who lived there for five years. Claud A. Oli-
ver built the cottage in 1908. The Cottage at 1818 Farms gives added studio space that will allow Natasha to host educational workshops during winter and early spring months. The Cottage also will serve as a showroom to sell farm products, flower bouquets and eco-printed scarves. The Open House on December 8 attracted visitors to browse products from the farm and guest artisans. The Cottage will carry the full line of customers’ favorite 1818 Farms merchandise. Among the handcrafted products, Botanical Wax Sachets are one of Natasha’s favorites. The hand-poured sachets feature the farm’s beautiful, dried flowers, artfully arranged in a blend of scented soy and beeswax. “The sachets are aromatherapy for your home and perfect for freshening small spaces such as closets, cabinets and bathrooms,” Natasha said. “The hanger for the sachet is yarn that is spun from the wool of our flock of babydoll sheep.” 1818 Farms’ items include scented shea creme, bath soaks, cuticle balm, lip care, pottery, coffee, candles, sachets and naturally dyed textiles. A quite popular item with visitors, each bundle-dye scarf is unique and created using flowers from the farm. The resin art pieces with pressed flowers are especially attractive with gorgeous petals and blooms preserved for perpetuity as coasters, key chains, jewelry, rectangular and circular serving trays and charcuterie boards. Also at Open House, award-winning artist Kathryn Price fell in love with the paint-
ing process that includes problem-solving skills. She finds much pleasure trying to learn to see big shapes, values and composition. “To me, art is a geometry problem,” Price said. “You are given a canvas and an idea . . . then you go through the steps to prove your concept. Hopefully, my paintings will connect with someone.” Price believes as painters grow as artists that they constantly challenge themselves with new endeavors. “Painting is learning how to see and to achieve what your eye can discern,” she said. “It’s a process of constantly learning and developing your skills.” Occasionally, Price will dabble in abstract paintings, in her approach to impressionism. When she starts more abstractly, the impressionistic painting will become looser and more painterly. Beginning with lines and shapes, Price defines where the viewer’s eye will go. As the painting progresses, she continues to refine until the painting takes on impressionistic characteristics. Price is an equestrian, a master gardener and flower arranger. She was taught to paint ‘what you know.’ Thus, she loves to paint horses in motion and still life setups featuring her garden flowers. Her designs include “Hydrangeas” and “The Hay Field.” Price has borrowed from many artists, including Sara Beth Fair, Gary Bodner, Barbara Davis, Roger Dale Brown, Dawn Whitelaw, Gina Brown, Nancy Franke and Amy Peterson. Painting from chaos to quietness, Price’s techniques may be
Natasha McCrary is happy about expansion at 1818 Farms in Mooresville with the opening of The Cottage at 1818 Farms, which will provide space for workshops, special events and a showroom.
a metaphor, not only for a journey in art but also for a journey in life. (kathrynpricefineart. com) Many 1818 Farms products feature sketches of the cherished farm animals by Natasha’s mother-in-law, Shirley McCrary. Their line of Flower Sack Towels and Swedish Dishcloths is a customer favorite. At
Open House, Natasha launched the “Where I Bloom” collection, which features pressed-flower artwork for all 50 states. Currently, The Cottage at 1818 Farms will not have regular store hours but will open to shoppers periodically and for special events. For more information, go to www. 1818farms.com.
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2004) -- Harley Dauma (Intermediate), third. • Dramatic Monologue (2005 to present) -- Tevin Sheehy (Intermediate), third; Rian Edwards (Intermediate), first. • Comedic Monologue (2005 to present) -- Araceli Gomez (Novice), third; Anthony Rivera (Varsity), second. • Duet Comedic Dialogue (pre-1975) -- Olive Ball and Astrid Muffett (Intermediate), second. • Duet Dramatic Dialogue (1975 to present) -- Tera Jackson and Braden Koler (Intermediate),
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third; Liam Robertson and Dylan Henrie (Varsity), second. Andres Gamboa in Advanced Production class wrote Robertson and Henrie’s presentation. • Duet Comedic Dialogue (1975 to present) -Cypress Bryce and Kate Hughes (Intermediate), third. • Puppet Design -- Olive Ball (Novice), third. • Costume Design -- Sophia Kessler (Varsity), second. • Scenic Design -- Maycie Dunkerley (Novice), third; Brandy Quach (Novice), second.
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‘math TEAM,’” Joshi said. Journey’s seventh-grade team includes Aryana Baria, Brody Barlow, Valen Bell, Charvisri Donthala, Timothy McKee, Grace Mehta, Camden Moultrie and Austin Zhu. Journey’s sixth-grade team includes Noah Diallo, Neil Dube, IkeOluwanimi Farounbi, Devansh Goyal, Rachel Harris, Caden Howard, Antonio Hughes, Michael Leaney, Victor Okinbaloye, Marlon Ross Jr., Rohan Sahoo, Wylie Savage and Ivy Zhang. A math team’s “ultimate objective is to build a love and passion for math amongst students. I encourage students to become mathematical problem-solvers, reason mathematically, value math’s importance, communicate mathematically and become confident in their own mathematical abilities,” Joshi said. Each competition has two parts - a written test and ciphering. The written test has 25 multiple-choice problems with three or four additional short answer problems for tiebreakers. Students earn four points for each correct answer but
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lose one point for each incorrect answer, she said. All students that attend the competition will take the written test. During ciphering, students must answer questions as quickly as possible. Ciphering varies by competition; usually, only four students cipher from each school/grade-level. “The quicker the student answers the question, the more points his/ her team receives. At the last competition, all students ciphered,” Joshi said. At Vestavia Hills with 1,100-plus students from 16 schools, 23 Journey students felt “super proud” of their performance. “Vestavia is a tough test and tough competition. Students were super excited about coming in first (place),” Joshi said. “I absolutely love the thrill of competitions and have a passion for teaching math team. I’ve always liked working higher math and that’s where my calling is. When you teach what you are passionate about, the learning for students is greatly accomplished,” Joshi said. “I’m so proud and happy that my
sixth- and seventh-grade teams did an outstanding job at Vestavia Hills . . . one of the hardest competitions with very difficult questions,” Joshi said. Journey compiled impressive results at Vestavia Hills: • Team awards: Place wins went to seventh grade, first; and sixth grade, third place. • Individual awards: Awarded to top 10 students overall per grade level. Journey seventh-graders competed against 89 students: Austin Zhu, first; Aryana Baria, second; Charvisri Donthala, sixth; Grace Mehta, eighth; and Timothy McKee, tenth. Sixth-graders competed against 95 students: Neil Dube, sixth; Wylie Savage, ninth; Ivy Zhang, tenth; and Rachel Harris, eleventh. “Parent volunteers worked hard at home to make sure students practiced the material we were learning in school,” Joshi said. “Parents were also responsible for transporting their children to competition. We have a great and supportive group of math team parents.”
Continued from page 6A Gowder also founded an English tutoring program for those struggling with a language barrier through the school’s new Global Minds chapter, a non-profit, nationwide organization based out of Pennsylvania. “This is the first Global Minds chapter in Alabama,” Gowder said. “The chapter’s main purpose is to foster intercultural relationships. As part of this chapter, I partnered with the EL department at my school and started a tutoring service for those who are struggling in their classes because of language barriers. It also helps them get introduced to the language through conversational English. The unique
structure of the tutoring service allows one tutor and EL student to form a partnership throughout the year.” The James Clemens Invent to Prevent team’s project will be subject to review in the coming month and if selected in the top three out of forty total high schools, will have the chance to be officially recognized for their achievement and present their idea before national leaders in Washington, D.C. You can follow the Invent to Prevent team’s work as they strive to make a difference and improve social connections in Madison youth on Instagram @jchs.i2p.
Continued from page 5A ately picked up on. A pause is never He nodded. I dropped my Seiko. Those boxes good in a situation like this. She finally responded. “Those? full of comics could be worth thousands. Properly invested, the money Oh, I threw them away about six from my collection could pay for my months ago.” My heart fell through the floor. kid’s college! I left the watch on the counter, The last time I felt this way was picked up the phone, and called my when my wife told me Elvis died. “Why did you do that?” It was mother. When she answered, I cut short more a plea than a question. She said, “Well, I decided to clean the pleasantries and yelled, “Mom, I’m coming over to get my boxes of out the basement, so I got rid of comics today!” I was already count- all those old comics. I did save the Sports Illustrateds because I thought ing the money. There was a pause that I immedi- you might want them. Wait! Why are
you crying?” You’ve heard of money down the drain? Well, this was money in the landfill. I finally got over it, but not before I computed my losses to be well into five figures. A few years later, I went in a collectibles store that had a big sign on the cash register that said: “$100 Fine Every time we hear how your Mom threw away your comics.” I kept my mouth shut. I figured it was better to suffer in silence. Find more of Joe’s stories on his blog: mylifeasahobby.blogspot.com.
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Mustangs, with a small team representation at the State Meet, finished sixth with 100 points in Class 1-5A as Amelia Maddox won two individual first-place medals. In boys, James Clemens finished third behind State Champion Huntsville, which easily outdistanced the competition by winning its eighth consecutive state title. To put in perspective the Huntsville victory, the Panthers tallied 348 points compared to the Jets’ thirdplace finish with 221 points and the 174 points scored by fourthplace Bob Jones. Nearby Sparkman scored 14 points with one Bob Jones senior Samantha Chan won the 100-yard butterfly at the AHSAA swimmer to place No. 24. State Swim Meet leading the Lady Patriots to their second consecutive See SWIM Page 4B State Championship. Photo by AHSAA/Riley Campbell
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Winter is the coldest of the four seasons. The first day of Winter occurs around December 21, the day of the Winter Solstice. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. This is when the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth (which includes the United States) is as far away from the sun as possible. Without as much heat from the Sun, temperatures become colder, and the days are shorter. The sun sets much earlier in the day than during the other seasons of the year. In many places, it is cold enough to turn rain into snow. Some animals grow thick coats to keep them warm in the cold Winter. Some mammals hibernate through Winter. Hibernation is when an animal sleeps through the cold months for long periods of time. To survive the Winter, birds migrate south to warmer weather. They return to their homes in the Spring. People enjoy Winter sports like skiing, snowboarding, and ice skating. Kids enjoy warm treats, like hot chocolate, and they also enjoy playing in the snow.
MADISON - The 2023 high school football season is now a recent memory. The season came to a close when Madison Academy lost in its bid to win the Class 3A State Championship falling to No. 1 ranked Mobile Christian 55-28 in the title game held at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. Both teams headed into the game undefeated with the Mustangs twice making rallies to make the game close and within reach, but the Leopards (15-0) scored three touchdowns in the final 10 minutes to pull away to win their first state championship. Senior running back Ken Cherry had 127 yards rushing and an additional 122 yards receiving while having three touchdowns to lead Madison Academy (14-1). Quarterback Jake Poldiak finished 20-of-29 passing for 342 yards and two touchdowns, but he also had three interceptions, which Mobile Christian turned into 21 points. Both teams combined for 982 yards of offense. “These guys answered the call and as a coach you have a vision on what you want that program to look like and these guys brought it to life and made it the standard,” said Bob Godsey head coach of Madison Academy. “When they had to step up they did. That’s what I’ll remember from this team. These guys responded.” “We came up short in this game, but throughout the season we just had a whole bunch of good moments, loving moments, no matter what life brought we were there for each other,” said Cherry. “I made some bad reads early in the game, but the guys brought us back in it,” added Poldiak. “We just couldn’t finish it.” For the senior Cherry, an All-State performer and uncommitted on his choice See FOOTBALL Page 4B
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ty as undefeated teams. Something had to give here. In the end, it was Mobile Christian (15-0) who prevailed over Madison Academy (14-1) to win the 3A title 55-28. The Leopards were leading 21-14 at the half despite the Mustangs out-gaining them with 70 rushing yards to 43 and 221 passing yards to 164. The story of the first half was three costly turnovers by the Mustangs. Mobile Christian opened the third quarter with another score on a 53-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Damien
Gatson to receiver Aaron Rodgers who scored twice in the game. The junior Gatson finished the day 15 of 20 passing for 298 yards with five touchdowns for the Leopards. With Mobile Christian up 2814 at the 10:21 mark of the third quarter, the pressure was on Madison Academy to respond to keep pace in this title tilt. The Mustangs’ ensuing drive stalled and the Leopards went right back to work and that resulted in a 23-yard TD pass from Gatson to Jordan Woullard to make at 35-14 Mobile Christian
with 6:09 remaining in the third. Madison Academy began to make a comeback attempt when Mustang quarterback Jake Poldiak found senior receiver Jackson Reece in the end zone for a 15-yard touchdown grab with 42 seconds left in the third quarter to change the scoreboard to 35-21 Leopards. An important sack by Mustang senior defensive end Tyler Long halted the following Mobile Christian drive and forced a punt from deep in its own territory. Reece was able to return the punt down to the Leopard 31-
yard line. Madison Academy senior running back Ken Cherry would go on to score later in this drive from 15 yards out to make at 3528 Mobile Christian at the 10:40 mark of the fourth quarter. Kentonio Kelly Jr’s 54-yard touchdown catch was his only reception of the game, and it jolted the Leopards back to life with 10:10 to play to go up 42-28. The Mustangs were unable to retort at this point and Mobile Christian proceeded to pull away from Madison Academy with two more scores with the clock ticking down.
A 63-yard rushing touchdown by the sophomore running back PJ Brown made it 49-28 Leopards with 7:44 remaining. After a Mustang turnover on downs, Mobile Christian added its final points of the championship game in the form of a 36-yard TD carry by sophomore running back Jason Todd. While the result wasn’t what Madison Academy was looking for, it takes a special team to go as far and to accomplish what the Mustangs did this season and nobody, not even Mobile Christian, can take that away from them.
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Bob Jones falls to unbeaten Hazel Green in epic game By CALEB ODOM caleb@themadisonrecord.com MADISON - For the second straight week in a row, the Bob Jones girls basketball game was the game of the night this past Friday with its dramatic moments at the end. The Dec. 8 installment featured a clash at home against the undefeated Hazel Green girls team who were able to edge the Lady Patriots 49-45. Bob Jones was led by the dynamic shooting of sophomore Jae Smith who racked up 20 points in the losing effort. Smith was doing everything
she could to drag her team back into this game with clutch 3-pointers and that mid-range touch closer toward the basket. Hazel Green was powered by the scoring of its seniors Amiya Redus with 15 and center Leah Brooks who picked up 12 for the Lady Trojans. “I’m proud of the way our team fought throughout the game,” Bob Jones head coach Jazmine Carr said. “Jae Smith stepped up for us big time by knocking down some big-time shots and playing solid defense.” Hazel Green jumped out to a 20-12 lead after one quarter of
“I’m proud of the way our team fought throughout the game,” Bob Jones head coach Jazmine Carr said after a close game with undefeated defending state champions Hazel Green. action while the second quarter was low-scoring and defensive-minded. The majority of the points before the halftime break came from Redus and Smith who seemed to trade buckets like
they were having a duel on the hardwood. The Lady Trojans were up 2721 thanks to Smith’s field goal with two seconds on the clock that tightened the game up just before the half.
Hazel Green appeared poised to bury Bob Jones in the early part of the third quarter as Brooks drained back-to-back field goals and Redus hit a 3-pointer to push the Lady TroSee LADY PATRIOTS Page 4B
Bob Jones fall to Hazel Green after holding thin halftime lead By CALEB ODOM caleb@themadisonrecord.com MADISON - The Trojans of Hazel Green were able to come to Bob Jones and take down the Patriots this past Friday 46-33 in a game that largely dictated from the foul line. The schools combined to attempt 38 foul shots in a contest that muddled along with numerous stoppages and missed shots. Hazel Green was 12 for 20 from the free throw line while Bob Jones was 9 of 18 at the charity stripe. The Trojans were led by the senior Jalen Bright who finished with 12 points in the victory while the Hazel Green big man TJ Pruitt ended up with eight points. Bob Jones turned to the efforts of the junior Kaden Rickard who ended his night with a dunk to give him 13 points.
The game was tightly contested early on with aggressive play in the first quarter, but Hazel Green was leading 13-9 after the first eight minutes. It was a foul fest in the second quarter as the officials blew the whistles throughout the remainder of the first half. A field goal by Bob Jones junior Jaylen Rice pulled the Patriots within a point of tying the game at 15-14 with 3:25 remaining in the first half. Mitchell Robinson’s 2-pointer at 1:13 gave Bob Jones the narrow 16-15 lead. Bright was able to answer back for the Trojans with a field goal that handed Hazel Green the 17-16 edge with 25 seconds remaining. Sticking to the theme of the game though, Rickard drew a foul and drained back-to-back free throws with no time remaining to tie and push Bob Jones See PATRIOTS Page 4B
JORDAN URRUTIA SIGNS - Bob Jones record breaking track athlete Jordan Urrutia recently chose to sign an athletic scholarship with Ole Miss after being recruited by numerous Div. I programs. The 6-foot, 165-pound sprinter won the Class 7A 200-meter and was runner-up in the 400-meter as last year’s ASHAA State Meet. He was also part of the 400-meter relay team which finished second. All three of his race finishes were new school records. He was also named an Adidas All-American in the 400-meter while competing within AAU events. Urrutia carries a 3.9 grade point average and 31 ACT Super Score and wants to major in mechanical engineering. Photo by Clay McCall
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Bob Jones volleyball team reaps several post-season awards By BOB LABBE bob@themadisonrecord.com MADISON The self-proclaimed “Big Energy” Bob Jones volleyball team has reaped the accolades from a fabulous season with several post-season awards. The Lady Patriots completed their 2023 season at 54-3 and were runners-up in the Class 7A State Tournament losing to McGill-Toolen in the finals for the second consecutive season. Early in the just completed season the Pats were ranked No. 1 in Alabama and No. 11 nationally. The post-season awards include those from the Alabama High School Volleyball Coaches Asso-
ciation and its listing of the All-State Team. Kennedy Vaughn, a junior, was named 7A Player of the Year and second-year head coach, Jenny Jarrett was named 7A Coach of the Year. Additional selections for First Team AllState were Vaughn (OH, 5-11, Jr.), Meg Jarrett (L, 5-8, Sr.) and Eliza Tyrrell (OH, 5-9, Sr.). Besides its early-season national ranking, Bob Jones has received additional national recognition from the American Volleyball Coaches Asso-
ciation (AVCA). The AVCA selected Meg Jarrett Second Team All-American with both Tyrrell and Rachel Mecklenburg (OPP/S, 5-9, Sr.) as Honorable Mention All-Americans. Abby Harbin (DS, 5-4, Sr.) received special recognition from the AVCA by being named to the elite First Team Best and Brightest. The award is presented to seniors who played in at least 50-percent of their team’s sets and carry a 4.0 or higher grade point average. She currently has a 4.21 GPA.
Tyrrell (Montevallo), Mecklenburg (Wallace State) and Jarrett (UAB) recently signed college scholarships to continue their play on the next level of their education. Not only did the team have a banner year on the court, the individual efforts by these Lady Patriots were just as impressive. Tyrrell posted season stats of 53 aces, 339 kills, 127 blocks, 15 assists and 107 digs. Mecklenburg posted 40 aces, 274 kills, 46 blocks, 543 assists and 269 digs in the 2023 season.
Jarrett In 2023, had 63 aces, 175 assists and 625 digs with a 2.34 serve receive rating. Vaughn had 21 aces, 542 kills, .309 hitting percentage, 71 blocks, 17 assists and 127 digs. Harbin was just as superior on the court as she is in the classroom by having 48 aces, 234 digs, 17 assists and a 2.0 serve receive rating. For the elder Jarrett, she captured her first Coach of the Year honor after leading her teams to the finals of the State Tournament each of her
two seasons at the helm of the program. She knows her daughter, Meg, is an outstanding player on the team, but sees there are others with so much talent. In the two campaigns with the Lady Patriots, Jarrett has posted a record of 105-10 as head coach. She was at Bob Jones as assistant coach from 2015-1019 while being head coach of the Discovery Middle School program for one season and led the junior varsity squad for two seasons at Bob Jones.
No. 4 Rachel Mecklenburg was named Honorable Mention All-American by the AVCA.
No. 5 Meg Jarret earned First Team All-State and Second Team All-America.
No. 2 Eliza Tyrrell was named First Team All-State and AVCA Honorable Mention All-American.
No. 3 Abby Harbin has been presented with the AVCA Best and Brightest Award.
Patriots
Continued from page 3B back out front 18-17 at halftime. The Trojans stormed right back after the midway break and took the lead with a 4-point run by Bright and Legend Martin. The teams traded points the rest of the third quarter to keep it tightly contested, but Hazel Green was able to stay out front to lead 32-28. Bob Jones began to fade in the fourth quarter as the Trojans burned them at the free-throw line down the stretch. Rickard was still out there flying around the dunking the basketball, but the Patriots were unable to catch the Trojans who finished the game with a run of seven points.
No. 18 Kennedy Vaughn was named First Team All-State along with Class 7A Player of the Year in Alabama.
Jenny Jarrett, right, head coach of the Bob Jones volleyball team, has been named Class 7A Coach of the Year
Lady Patriots
Continued from page 3B game up at 37-37. Hazel Green was missing shots suddenly and the Lady Patriots could smell blood in the water. This was their opportunity to pounce. A field goal by Jae Smith at the 4:22 mark handed Bob Jones the lead at 39-37, but Brooks stormed back down the court and tied it back up at 39-39. Goode was fouled and the Lady Patriot grabbed the advantage back for Bob Jones at 41-39 with 3:29 left. It was short-lived though as Brooks continued to haunt the Lady Patriots with her relentless effort and timely scoring with a field goal that tied the game at 41-41 with 3:07 remaining.
Redus, who had hit a cold spell in the second half, drove the lane for 2-points to give Hazel Green the 43-41 lead with 1:59 on the clock as the defending Jae Smith went flying into the Bob Jones student section. With time ticking down, Bob Jones was forced to foul the senior point guard Sydney Steward who hit six important free throws down the stretch for the Lady Trojans. Hazel Green was up 47-41 until Smith took a deep 3-pointer that made it 47-44 with 16 seconds remaining. The Lady Trojans next fouled Jordyn Fields who made them pay with a free throw shot to pull Bob Jones within two points of tying the game at 4745.
The ensuing inbounds play was disastrous for the Lady Trojans who were being pressed by Bob Jones who muscled the ball away from Steward near the baseline for a jump ball that was given to Hazel Green. The crowd had worked into a frenzy at this point as Hazel Green was struggling to keep the ball away from the hungry Bob Jones team who could taste victory as a second jump ball scenario was whistled. The ball was given to the Lady Patriots with nine seconds remaining as Jazmine Carr called a timeout to talk strategy with her team. The inbounds play found the hands of Jae Smith who had two Hazel Green defenders in her face as she let a 3-point shot
go with four seconds on the clock. The basketball rattled off of the rim and Steward was fouled and sent to the line where she made two more free throws giving her 10 points in the game and sealing the win for the Lady Trojans in a nail-bitter on the road. As the clock hit zeros and the horn sounded, Jae Smith bent over in frustration near the scorer’s table. She had played her heart out and scored 20, but it had not been enough. It is epic, down-to-the-wire games like these that make teams tougher later in the season and Bob Jones had brought it against a quality Hazel Green unit despite the narrow loss.
Continued from page 1B For Bob Jones, the highlight Peyton Brady and Emile Tesof the action inside the James seneer, teamed up to win the E. Martin Aquatics Center came 400-freestyle relay with a time from senior Samantha Chan of 3:34.71. and her sister, freshman Abby Senior Peyton Brady also won Chan. Samantha won a gold an individual state title winmedal in the 100 butterfly with ning the 500 freestyle at 5:11.37. a time of 53.98, which was just Senior Michael Tretyakov won slightly less than a second fast- the lone gold medal for the Bob er than runner-up Abby with Jones boys with a time of 49.50 her time of 54.78. Abby took first in the 100 back stroke. For Madison Academy, Madplace in the 100 backstroke with a winning time of 55.71. dox took first-place honors The Chan sisters were also in both the 100 breaststroke on the two relay teams which (1:05.42) and 100 butterfly (58.73). Listed here are the final retook home gold. The relay team of Abby Chan, Finnley Koehler, sults from the four local schools Samantha Chan and Meli Mbu- with top three medal perforko set a new state record with a mances: time of 1:44.68 in the 200-medley Girls: 200 medley relay 6-7A- 1. relay. The Chans, along with Bob Jones, 1:44.68 (Abby Chan,
Fr., Finnley Koehler, Jr., Samantha Chan, Sr., Meli Mbuko, So.); 200 IM 1-5A- 2. Bella Daniel, Madison Academy, 2:14.54; 200 IM 6-7A- 3. Samantha Chan, Sr., Bob Jones, 2:04.29; 50 freestyle 6-7A- 2. Meli Mbuko, So., Bob Jones, 23.58; 100 butterfly 1-5A- 1. Amelia Maddox, Madison Academy, 58.73; 100 butterfly 6-7A- 1. Samantha Chan, Sr., Bob Jones, 53.98, 2. Abby Chan, Fr., Bob Jones, 54.78; 500 freestyle 6-7A- 1. Peyton Brady, Sr., Bob Jones, 5:11.37; 200 freestyle relay 6-7A- 3. James Clemens, 1:40.22 (Renee Drayton, Jr., Annabelle Jensen, 8, Rosa Levan, Jr., Isabelle Park, So.); 100 backstroke 1-5A- 2. Bella Daniel, Madison Academy, 1:00.62; 100
backstroke 6-7A- 1. Abby Chan, Fr., Bob Jones, 55.71, 3. Emile Tesseneer, So., Bob Jones, 59.43; 100 breaststroke 1-5A- 1. Amelia Maddox, Madison Academy, 1:05.42; 400 freestyle relay 6-7A- 1. Bob Jones, 3:34.71 (Abby Chan, Fr., Peyton Brady, Sr., Emilie Tesseneer, So., Samantha Chan, Sr.). Boys: 100 breaststroke 6-7A2. Juston Roh, Jr., Bob Jones, 58.58; 100 backstroke 6-7A- 1. Michael Tretyakov, Sr., Bob Jones, 49.50, 3. Christian Wester, So., James Clemens, 51.62; 200 freestyle relay 6-7A- 2. James Clemens, 1:26.94 (Alex Kulkarni, Jr., Christian Wester, So., Nathan Johnson, Sr., Cade McComb, Sr.); 50 freestyle 6-7A- 2. Cade
McComb, Sr., James Clemens, 20.36, 3. Michael Tretyakov, Sr., Bob Jones, 20.61; 200 medley relay 6-7A- 2. James Clemens, 1:29.71 (Christian Wester, So., Omar Elsayed, Sr., Alex Kulkarni, Jr., Cade McComb, Sr.), 3. Bob Jones, 1:36.65 (Michael Tretyakov, Sr., Justin Roh, Jr., Braden Shankleton, Jr., William Yang, Fr.). In all, Bob Jones took home 13 medals, James Clemens 5 and Madison Academy 4. The final team scores included: Girls 6-7A- 1. Bob Jones 298, 4. James Clemens 202.50; Boys 6-7A- 3. James Clemens 221, 4. Bob Jones 174, 24. Sparkman 14; Girls 1-5A- 6. Madison Academy 100.
jan advantage to 34-21 at the 5:42 mark, but the Lady Patriots kept battling. “From the bench to the players on the court, we fought back as a team and I’m proud of that,” Carr said. “We will keep learning and building to become the best team we can be.” Smith went back to work in the third with more big shots and two free throws by senior Alana Obianozie made it 37-30 Lady Trojans with one quarter to play. Bob Jones senior Zamyra Goode helped spark the rally with a big field goal to make it 37-34 Hazel Green. With 5:07 to play, Smith hit another 3-pointer with ice water in her veins to knot the
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Continued from page 1B of college, had another up an average of just 16.4 spectacular season as he points per outing, was led finished with 2,836 yards by junior linebacker A.J. rushing on 206 carries Rice with 133 tackles and with 44 touchdowns. He Brandon Tanner with 80 also had 20 pass recep- tackles. Godsey had 14 setions for 379 yards and niors on his team roster. four scores. Poldiak, also The Mustangs had a a senior Mustang, had marvelous run through 2,694 yards and 24 TDs in the regular season, as passing from his 157 com- well as, the playoffs where pletions on 211 attempts. they defeated Hokes Bluff Top receiver was Jack- (57-20), Mars Hill (21-14), son Reece, a senior, who Sylvania (35-28) and Gerhauled in 87 passes for aldine (48-43). 1,383 yards and 12 touch“The competitive spirit downs. The Mustangs’ is really big on this team. offense was one of the top The next play matters, in the state scoring 47.9 the little things matter,” added Rice. points a game. Godsey added, with On defense, which gave
emotions, “It’s been a heck of a ride. The journey has been incredible, but once again, it’s been all these fellas. They’ve been the ones to establish Madison Academy.” The remainder of the three local schools completed their 23 campaigns earlier than the Mustangs, Let’s take a look at each. Bob Jones The Patriots lost their first three games of the 2023 schedule, including a 40-13 loss to crosstown rival James Clemens, but head coach Kelvis
White had to right the ship, which he did as his squad won five of its next seven games and advanced to the Class 7A playoffs. Bob Jones (5-6) fell to Hewitt-Trussville in round one of extra play 56-14. James Clemens Chad McGehee watched as his team finished 7-4 on the season including a first-round 42-16 home loss to Hoover in the Class 7A playoffs. In his third season as head coach, McGehee’s efforts did secure the Jets as Region 4 Champions with a
6-1 region record losing to region foe Austin. The big fact of the 2023 campaign for the Jets was they scored 313 points on the year, but also allowed 257 to their opponents including 42 to both Muscle Shoals and Hoover, both games which they lost. James Clemens was also just 3-3 at home games. Sparkman What is easily a bizarre season for the Senators of Sparkman came to a close at the end of the regular season as the team did not advance to the state playoffs. Sparkman
had a new head coach in Ronnie Watson and all looked good through the first half of the regular season as his squad won the first five games on its schedule including four shutouts and allowed just 18 points to region foe Austin. At that point, the wheels fell off the fast moving winning machine as Sparkman lost its next five games scoring just 95 points while allowing 149 points to their opponents. For the season, the Senators tallied 321 points and gave up 199. The 5-5 final record included 3-4 in Region 4 games.
December 13, 2023
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HISTORY A look at the Clift Family of Madison
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By JOHN P. RANKIN Madison Historian
that Madison’s Jack and Lillian Clift had daughters of great beauty. Perhaps the Clift genes are predisposed to produce beautiful women, such as Anna Mae, even to the later generations. Today Madison’s most beautiful housing development is Clift’s Cove on Hughes Road. When I first explored that area at the base of Rainbow Mountain’s southwest foot in 1986, horses and cattle were kept on the land that was then owned by Anne Clift and her first husband, Jim Powers. Anne is one of the daughters of Jack and Lillian Clift, who lived in the house that they built at 243 Mill Road on the north side of its junction with Church Street. Jack was a Madison Town Commissioner from 1965 to 1969. Maps and books published before the 1970s show the John H. Clift family cemetery on the south side of Highway 72 between Balch Road and Wall-Triana Highway and north of Gooch Lane. That cemetery is not there now. The graves were moved to the new section of the Madison City Cemetery on the north side of Mill Road, gathering generations of the family members into the one cemetery. Tombstones show that John H. Clift was born September 5, 1821 and died March 25, 1893. Census records consistently showed that he was born in Alabama, but until 1850 the names of the children and wives in households were not recorded if the man of the house was still living. However, that still does not explain why John H. Clift was not found in the 1840 Alabama census when he would have been age 18 or 19. If he had not yet established his own household at that age, there still should have been a Clift father or mother listed. Perhaps he was still living in Tennessee, or his Clift family had temporarily left the state, or maybe they were just missed altogether. Another aspect is that the first land purchase of any of the Clift family in Madison County was in 1848. This land deed was written to sell land of Section 9, Township1, Range 1 West to John H. Clift. The deed states that John H. Clift was at that time a resident of Madison County, and the specified land lay immediately east of and along today’s Butter & Egg Road and immediately north of the Bobo Junction Road. Other lands closer to the City of Madison were purchased in 1850 by John H. Clift. John H. Clift’s wife Mary Carothers Clift was born in Tennessee in 1820, and she died in 1897. Their children were all born in Alabama and included Francis
Some of the older lifetime residents of Madison have related that Ollie Wikle, pictured above with his crew in 1942, named his Boeing-built B-17 bomber “Flamin’ Mamie” after his Madison sweetheart, Mayme Louise Dublin, daughter of Clyde H. Dublin for whom Madison’s central city park is named. She had flaming red hair, thereby giving rise to the aircraft’s name and pin-up style nose art depicting her likeness. However, they were not destined to wed, as Ollie and the Flamin’ Mamie went down in flames over Tunisia on February 1, 1943. M. (born 1844), Nancy E. (1846), Martha J. (1847), Mary L. (1850), John T. (1853), Sarah A. E. (1854), and Josephine (1856). Martha married William McCrary in 1872 with Benjamin F. Camper helping to post the marriage bond and L. Hensley Grubb performing the rites. Sarah married Thomas Wall in 1873, with bonds by Wall and J. M. Hilliard, while J. J. Powers performed the rites. John T. Clift married Sallie (Sarah) Carter in 1878. She was a daughter of Rolla and Mary Carter, who lived south of Madison toward Triana. The rites were performed by J. W. Hilliard, and bonds were given by Clift and John J. Bailey. The next generation of Clift marriages in Madison County include Thomas W. Clift marrying Lessie Balch in 1918. William Edgar Clift married Leola Fariss Nance in 1925. James Earl Clift married Velma Rose Haner in 1927, and C. Frank Clift married Nola Ruth Drake in 1937. Frank was an uncle of Jack, both of whom, along with others of the family, are immortalized in the street names of the Clift Farm develop-
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ment along Highway 72. The Clift land holdings in the Madison area have long included several parcels along Knox and Bradford Creeks and in the Monrovia area. Frank and his never-married sister, Maud Clift, both children of John T. and Sallie Clift, lived with their mother in the Dea Thomas house at 307 Church Street, where Gerald and Peggy Wheeler later came to live. The Clift family has contributed very significantly to the heritage of Madison throughout its generations in the area. Their influence has been felt in many ways as the town has matured in concert with the Clift family presence. Jack and Lillian made significant donations to both the YMCA in Madison and to the First Baptist Church of Madison. Lillian rarely missed a Madison City Council meeting, with her opinions always being offered on most of the topics being considered. Their children and their ancestors have long provided civic involvements and leadership with roots that go back to times before Madison was founded.
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MADISON - Recently, as I was reviewing historic Clift family names of Alabama and Tennessee, I noticed the name Vargas, and it seemed that I had run across it before. Because of awareness of the TV personality Elizabeth Vargas from ABC and Fox networks, I began to look on-line for people of that surname and was reminded in the results of several famous people with that identity. Some members of the older generations of men who were young adults in the 1950 – 1970 times in America may possibly recall seeing the name of Alberto Vargas, who was a world-famed portrait painter. It turns out that our Madison Clift families apparently had a somewhat distant or indirect connection to the world-famous Joaquin Alberto Vargas. Many of today’s later generations will not know the Vargas name, but further research revealed that Alberto was born in Peru in 1896. His father was a photographer, and Alberto as a young man studied that trade in France and Spain, gaining a reputation in the business, but also learning various methods of portrait painting. Internet research showed that when business eventually led him to New York City some years before 1933, one day Alberto noticed a beautiful young girl with flaming red hair going into a theater for rehearsals as a dancer. He was so stricken with her beauty that he asked her name from a doorman, and it was given to him. He waited until the rehearsal was finished and approached the girl when she came out. She agreed to pose for him to paint her portrait, and this led to a lifetime of marriage for them. Her name was Anna Mae Clift, and she was originally from Soddy-Daisy, in Hamilton County of Tennessee, just north of Chattanooga. Her portraits became the first of the “Vargas Girls” that were regularly published in the monthly Esquire magazines and later in Playboy magazines for many decades. Similar portraits were painted by America’s airmen as “nose art” on the aircraft used in World War II, most of them copied from Vargas’ work with many different female models. At least the art brought some entertainment and wishful joys to our military during that war and perhaps later in subsequent wars. One B-17 bomber was named the “Flamin’ Mamie” and painted with the likeness of his Madison girlfriend Mamie Louise Dublin by Madison’s Captain Jessie Ollie Wikle in 1942. However, before they could wed, the bomber was shoot down after also eliminating several enemy aircraft over Tunisia on February 1, 1943, killing all aboard. The Clift name and nearness of Anna Mae Clift’s family heritage to our area led me to look for any connections, and indeed there is such a link – but it is only through six generations of ancestors from Madison’s beloved Jack Clift back to a common Clift as a shared ancestor with Anna Mae Clift Vargas. Jacks’ father was William Thomas Clift (18931969). Jack’s grandfather was John Thomas Clift (1854-1926). However, the history of the Clift family in Madison pre-dates 1850, when Jack’s great-grandfather, John H. Clift (1821-1893), first appears in censuses of the area. Prior to 1850 the census records showed no Clift families in the area, but a Jessee Clift was licensed to marry Nancy Wilson in Madison County in 1818. A Joseph Clift patented land in 1818 in Morgan County, and in the 1830 census there was a William Clift in Morgan County. The 1840 census listed no Clift families anywhere in the state, so perhaps they all were still in Hamilton County of Tennessee in that year. The next generation of the Clift men before Jack’s great-grandfather John H. Clift was William Washington Clift (1803-1875), and he was preceded by Joseph James Clift (1770-1849). It was the next-earlier generation of Joseph Clift II (1740-1790), who with his wife Mary Marie Edgell, were the common link to the pedigree of Anna Mae Clift (1896-1975), the first of the Vargas Girls in the world. She is still immortalized in numerous Vargas portraits. The Clift family line of course also descends from Joseph Clift I (1712-1790), who fought in the American Revolution as part of the 14th Maryland Battalion. It may be that the family genes are an underlying reason
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For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 Today there may be churches that are not preaching the true word of God but delivering a message people want to hear because their ears itch, so to speak. The culture may have influenced even pastors and priests to ‘cave’ and accept what society says is ok even when the word of God is crystal clear. The enemy is definitely on the warpath to destroy Christians, the Bible, our
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families, and life in the womb, and to deceive people by twisting God’s word. It started in the Garden of Eden when the serpent asked Eve, “Did God really say”. Let’s face it, people like their ears tickled. They want their own version of truth. Satan comes for killing, stealing, and destroying it says in John 10:10. The sooner you and I realize he is not a comic strip character, and you have power with the Word of God against him the better you will be. PRAYER: I rejoice in knowing that Truth is way better than Satan’s lies. I know Satan is a destroyer and I refuse to stand by and watch him destroy and lie to my family. In Jesus’ name. Amen. God’s Lemonade Stand is written by former Madison resident Becky Miller. Her daily devotions appear on Facebook or at godslemonadestand.blogspot.com.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths. Romans 15:13 (NIV)
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Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14
A middle schooler recently told his mother he didn’t like Sunday School because he knew all the Bible stories already. I got a little bit tickled but beg to differ with that young man. Even though I am 62, every single time I open God’s Word He speaks to me. Unfortunately, I’ve been there as a young adult when I thought I knew a thing or two already, even groaning silently one Christmas when a preacher told us to turn to Luke 2-again. What a goof I was thinking I had such knowledge. I’m shaking my head as I type. I LOVE the Christmas story and want to soak it all up like a sponge! Reading James Merritt, Mike Slaughter and others this time of year, my favorite Christmas study is the first few chapters of “Jesus the One and Only” by Beth Moore circa 2002. Pouring over the same Bible verses in Luke 1 and 2 and Matthew 1 and 2 bring new insight every time. Oh, I wish I would have loved God’s Word this much decades ago! Just this morning as I read parts of the very familiar Christmas story, the words leapt off the page… anew. I realized many things Mary and Joseph experienced parallel couples in ministry today. I’m impressed by their partnership. To-
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BAPTIST Big Shiloh Baptist 133 Maple St.
Mt. Zion Baptist 228 Mount Zion Road Huntsville
CHURCH OF CHRIST Central Valley 5700 Mooresville Rd.
JEWISH SYNAGOGUES Temple B’nai Sholom 103 Lincoln St. S.E.
Crosspointe 78 Hughes Road
Phillip Tabernacle Primitive Baptist 930 Balch Road
Church of Christ Hughes Road at Gooch Lane
LUTHERAN Faith Lutheran 660 Gillespie Rd
Skyline ABA Baptist 586 Slaughter Road
The Church of Christ on the Highway 7594 Wall Triana Hwy.
Lamb Of God Lutheran 11716 County Line
First Baptist Madison 4257 Sullivan St. Grace Baptist 122 Walnut St. Greenbrier Baptist 7939 Greenbrier Road Haven Baptist 1840 Slaughter Rd.
St. Andrew Primitive Baptist 1393 Swancott Road The Brook 8573 Highway 72
Swancott Church of Christ Swancott Road
Wall Highway Baptist Jan Scott, Realtor 6597 Wall Triana
Korean First Baptist 4257 Sullivan St.
11900 Mooresville Road
Parker Chapel Methodist Church 28670 Powell Road
The Harbor Family Worship Center 1469 Browns Ferry Road
Springhill United Methodist Church 1605 Zierdt Rd.
Hope Church 1661 Balch Road
Restoration Foursquare 5810 Wall Triana Highway Spirit Life Family Worship Center 1469 Browns Ferry Road PRESBYTERIAN Grace Presbyterian USA 5555 Wall Triana Highway
Journey Church 13902 Bradford Road
St. Peter UMC 107 Stewart St.
METHODIST Asbury Church 980 Hughes Road
Monrovia Church of Christ 595 Nance Road
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St. Paul United Methodist Church 620 6th Street
Messiah Lutheran 7740 Highway 72 W
Church of Christ of Madison 556 Hughes Road
Trinity Baptist 1088 Hughes Road
International Baptist 1025 Shelton Road
mation! Joy quickly follows. Rarely do you surrender to God and stay where you are. When we follow Him, the adventure begins. Mary and Joseph took their faith on the road to an unknown city. God used the hard thing of taxation to get them to the right place. It wasn’t a B & B, but they found shelter in a borrowed stable. God provides. Oh, how He provides! The stable was more private. Who wants to give birth in a crowded hotel with everyone watching? It wouldn’t have been their first choice; God’s plan was better. He had His reasons: company was coming. Mary and Joseph had their first Christmas open house as a couple. There were no snacks or punch, no festive decorations. The shepherds came and confirmed that the new parents were exactly where they were supposed to be. In ministry and in life, when everything seems to be falling apart, it can actually just be falling into place. Just like God had a plan for Mary and Joseph, He has a plan for each of us. We, too, are called to carry Jesus and share Him with the world. Are we serving Him? Or only ourselves? If we stepped out of our comfort zone and surrendered to God and His will, where would He lead us and use us? Read the story. Every day ‘til Christmas. Together, we can learn from Team Mary and Joseph.
gether, they were strong. A team. Mary was an unlikely choice. (Been there, felt that.) So ordinary, poor, young, and female. Not at all expected to change the world. God knew what was in her heart-all she was capable of. She was from Nazareth, a small place like Jerry Bottom-where I’m from. We learn from the Christmas story when God speaks it can be in unexpected ways. And terrifying. He speaks personally. Often when we’re alone. Mary was all by herself that day. There were no witnesses. The prophecies said the baby would be born in Bethlehem; they were nowhere near Bethlehem. Lots for the fam to wrap their minds around. Because they are never mentioned I wonder if they were supportive. When surrendering to ministry, loved ones may be perplexed way before they understand. Mary and Joseph’s calling connected them. They were both surrendered, moving at the speed of God, though unsure of what that would fully mean. The same is true for a couple serving in ministry together-perhaps a pastor and his wife. In the beginning, there was fear and disbelief. How could this be? Questions abound today as well. In ministry, one spouse tells the other, “This is how/what/where I feel like God is leading…” There is shock and awe, just as Joseph experienced. Then God speaks confir-
Asbury - Harvest 8089 Wall Triana Hwy
Ford’s Chapel United Methodist Church 280 Ford Chapel Drive
Fellowship United Methodist Church 29768 Huntsville Brownsferry Rd.
MORMON The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints 1297 Slaughter Road
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Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian 3726 Pryor Road
Light of Christ Center 4208 Holmes Avenue NW
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Living Word Fellowship 1477 Slaughter Road, Ala.
Providence Presbyterian 7745 Highway 72 W
Jesus Ministries 331 Landess Circle, Ala.
Redeemer Presbyterian 9580 Madison Blvd.
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