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Old Timer: Vashti ‘Tish’ McMichael, inspiring her family at 102

At 102 years old, the diminutive Vashti “Tish” McMichael takes her daily 100 laps around the...

Comfortably seated in her warm and inviting home, tastefully adorned with the gifts from a life in...

In her youth, her family had a small dairy herd and it was her job to milk 10 cows every morning...

She was born during the Great Depression to a truck-driving father who didn’t support his family,...

by Leota Harriman | Sep 12, 2016 | Old Timers | 0 |

Don Youman has rushed to the front lines to save guys in war; he knows how to perform a...

by Leota Harriman | Jun 3, 2016 | News | 0 |

“I was my daddy’s son because there were only girls before my little brother came,”...

Alma Wimsatt caressed the blue and yellow soup tureen she had made with gnarled hands, as if she...

Josephine Bassett’s house is bustling with activity seven days a week. Her sons run a construction...

By Judith Costello Thirty-two years ago, Shirley Davis (now Shirley Maldonado) became the first...

By Judith Costello He comes to the door slowly, his body forming a 90-degree angle. Benjamin...