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Alabama Fire Destroys House of Family Who Lost Their Previous Home in Tornado
On 4/7/21 at 3:57 AM EDT
An Alabama family who survived a tornado in 2019 have seen their new home rendered unlivable by a house fire that took place on Tuesday and has forced the couple and their children to move out.
Reedy and Amy Long and their three young children were not at home at the time of the fire as they were spending Easter with family, according to WRBL. Their children are 10-year-old Tucker, 7-year-old Machaiah and a toddler named Owen.
The Longs had lost their previous home during the 2019 tornado outbreak that devastated the area from Beauregard through Smiths Station in Alabama largely rural communities as well as Talbotton, Georgia.
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Gram Parsons, Derry Down and preserving a link to Winter Haven s past
Thomas R. Oldt
Though dead at 26, Gram Parsons remains a presence through his wide musical influence, which first blossomed in Winter Haven. This year marks the 75th year since his birth, but it was only by the slimmest of margins that he didn’t end up an obscure, dead teenager long before his notable life and notorious death unfolded. Because, as it happened, I came within a hair’s breadth of killing him.
Gram had serial friendships and ours bloomed briefly at Winter Haven High when I was a senior and he a junior, a relationship based largely on my limited ability to play piano, which may also explain its short duration.