Darrell Huckaby
Darrell Huckaby is an author and teacher in Rockdale County. E-mail him at dhuck08@bellsouth.net.
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HUCKABY: Thanksgiving is the time for some Brunswick stew
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Last Updated: 6:40 PM 11/19/09 - Thanksgiving week is upon us and I am about to have a full week out of school. I was excited about this prospect until I replaced our old oven last week and learned that I would be required to spend my week out of school painting the kitchen. Hopefully the project won’t take an entire week because I have set two days aside for what has become a Thanksgiving week tradition for me — making Brunswick stew. (Full Story) |
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HUCKABY: Sept. 11 attackers don’t deserve trial
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Last Updated: 9:27 PM 11/13/09 - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Recognize the name? I bet you’d recognize his face if you saw it. In his most famous publicity shot, he is wearing a stretched-out T-shirt and a snarl and has the hairiest chest I have ever seen — not counting the bearded lady that used to appear in the sideshow at the James H. Drew exposition that visited the Newton County fairground every fall. (Full Story) |
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HUCKABY: The race card will always rise again
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Last Updated: 3:05 PM 11/06/09 - The student body at Ole Miss is under attack by its own school administration. Students might as well surrender quietly and go about their business because the race card has been played, and in today’s turbulent times, the race card trumps tradition, common sense, history, free speech and every other argument a student body could ever hope to make. |
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HUCKABY: Cosby did more than tread comedy water
Last Updated: 8:05 PM 10/30/09 - In 1998 the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., created an award called the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Each and every year since then, an individual has been recognized that has had an impact on society similar to that of Mark Twain. That would be a person in pretty high cotton, indeed, and, quite frankly, some of the award winners might cause one to raise an eyebrow. Not this year, though. This year the folks at the Kennedy Center got it just right. This year they gave the award to Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby is one of my heroes. (Full Story) |
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HUCKABY: Be a survivor like Michelle
Last Updated: 8:24 PM 10/23/09 - Michelle Darr is tiny. She claims to be 5 feet tall. I don’t think she’s even close. Michelle and I have been friends for about 20 years. She’s from Indiana, but is quick to remind me that she is a Midwesterner, not a Yankee. We met at church. We have raised our kids together. She is a teacher. She taught my kids, and I taught hers. We were band parents together and drama parents together. (Full Story) |
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Savannah offers reminder of all my blessings
Last Updated: 5:55 PM 10/09/09 - I have a week off from school and find myself in Savannah, where this whole Georgia experiment got started. The British government wanted a military buffer to protect its profitable South Carolina colony, and James Edward Oglethorpe and his friends wanted a place where the “worthy poor” of England could get a fresh start, and the rest, as they say, is history. (Full Story) |
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