by Lee Ann Caldwell | Parting Shot
Fire on the mountains— snakes in the grass. Satan’s here a-billin;— oh, Lordy, let him pass! — Portion of the poem The Mountain Whippoorwill by Stephen Vincent Benet, which was the inspiration for Charlie Daniel’s song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” MANY HAVE...
by Lee Ann Caldwell | Parting Shot
When the reverent David Floyd died on October 9, 1900, the newspaper wrote that it was “one of the largest funerals of a colored person every witnessed.” In spite of a downpour that continued through the afternoon, there was not a vacant seat in Trinity Christian...