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Donna Locke: I’ve been where we are going
Donna Locke
I was a teenager working at The Daily Herald when this newspaper made its move from downtown when downtown had everything. I remember news coming over the wire, and gasps when wire copy was read that year 1968. News of murders, movements, and sea change.
Maury County has had its own sea change since then, with spirits freed from bondage and with growth spurred by changes in industry and population. Some of us lived through similar, huge changes in other places and are like time travelers from the future in our ability to predict what will happen next in Middle Tennessee because of waves already set in motion.
Donna Locke: A boomer looks at 70
Donna Locke
Having closed in on seven decades of life, I’m thinking back on many things here in my old hometown. I tell my grandchildren I don’t see what they’re seeing when we drive around town I see what used to be there.
I was born in the old King’s Daughters Hospital on School Street when Columbia was truly a small town. I moved to Atlanta when I was grown and moved back here 19 years ago.
I remember when summers were long and unrushed because we got out of school in May and returned after Labor Day. In those long-ago Augusts, we took our time and bought our school clothes in old shops around the Columbia square. Everyone got one pair of leather shoes, usually loafers, to wear all school year.