Roy Exum: My Garden In May Saturday, May 1, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
“Hooray, hooray, for the First of May …skinny-dippin’ begins today!”
That’s a note the late and great Sports Editor Emeritus Freddie Russell of the old Nashville Banner would send to me during the last 20 or so years of his life, and while the “sin” would change from year to year, the laughter the thoughtful note would evoke was always new and ever genuine.
As I sit in my garden today, as is my custom on the first day of every month, all around me is springtime lust and I glory in it. Our water tables are about 50 percent below a typical April but the abundance of rain we had earlier this year puts us well ahead of the year-to-date averages after the first fourth months of 2021.
Winners Of Young Southern Student Writers Contest Announced Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Southern Lit Alliance’s Young Southern Student Writers contest announces its winners. While there were 300 winners from local area schools, two outstanding entries by Carolyn Henley and Leila Babb from Silverdale Baptist Academy have won the overall Verbie and Hugh Prevost awards for their poems. Carolyn and Leila are in 11th and 10th grade, respectively.
A video will later be shared of some of this year’s winners reading their entries, and medals will be sent to each school of the 300 winners. Carolyn and Leila will each win a $250 cash prize for their achievement.