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Rebecca Leigh Akridge and Steven Taylor Prance
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Rebecca Leigh Akridge and Steven Taylor Prance were
married on Jan. 21, 2006 at the First Baptist Church of
Perry. The Rev. Larry Wood officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Jack Stephen Akridge
of Perry, and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Joseph Sopp of Milledgeville and Mr. and Mrs. James Clyde
Prance of Eatonton.
The bride was given in marriage by her father. Her sis
ter, Tara Mclnvale of Woodstock, was matron of honor.
Her friend, Dana Collier of Perry was maid of honor.
Bridesmaids were Tami Goddard, Erin McCoy, Jamie Peeler,
Kimberly Pope and Dana Wiggins. Carolyn Bresnahan and
Taylor Prance were junior bridesmaids. Sara Mitchell and
Payton Prince were flower girls.
The groom chose his father as his best man. Usher/
groomsmen were Chip Carter, Stephen Coxen, Joe Hodges,
Jim Prance, Jason Prince, Brian Sopp, Britt Treadway and
Josh Wheeler. Jack Bresnahan was ring bearer.
Program attendants were Mrs. Casey Coxen and Mrs. Bill
McGouirk. Sheryl Milligan was the wedding director.
Music was provided by David Loudermilk, organist;
Brenda Bullard, pianist, and Jay Turner, vocalist.
The bride’s parents hosted a reception at Massee Lane
Gardens, Fort Valley.
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Debra Ann Tucker and James Carson Carlisle 111 exchanged
wedding vows on April 8, 2006. The ceremony took place at
Houston Lake Country Club with the Rev. Bruce Brookshire
officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Elton and Vernease Tucker
of Warner Robins. The groom is the son of J.C. and Helen
Carlisle of Warner Robins.
The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore
a white wedding dress designed with classic simplicity and
a tiara. She carried a bouquet of white hydrangeas and pink
roses. She was attended by Becky Taylor, maid of honor, and
Mendi Winston, bridesmaid, both of Warner Robins.
The attendants wore black full-length halter dresses.
Music was provided by K-mo and friends.
The bride’s parents hosted a reception at the country club
following the wedding. The couple are living in Cancun,
Mexico after a honeymoon in Cancun/
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Ronda Rich
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Oh beautiful language,
wherefor art thou?
Lately, I’ve found
myself in mourn
ing over the esca
lating loss of something
that clearly distinguished
the South from the rest of
America’s regions for over
200 years.
“Where,” I have mum
bled repeatedly to myself,
“has the beauty of our lan
guage gone?”
It comes and goes -
mostly it goes - like the
fog that settles over the
Smoky Mountains on an
early morn then burns
away with the sun’s hot
glare. Once, though, our
pretty words lingered on
our lips and fell sweetly
on our ears. I so enjoy
my conversations with
my beloved Southern
mentor, Miss Virgie, who
hails from Pascagoula,
Mississippi and still salts
her stories with words like
“mirth”, “shan’t”, “hear
ken”, “prance”, “here
forth”, and “tis”.
Her language, once the
norm not the exception
in the South, is lyrical,
poetic and just downright
interesting.
After I read a quote
in Time magazine by
Mississippi Gov. Phil
Barbour, from the horren
dous after throes of vicious
Katrina, I was more per
plexed by this, even deeply
saddened.
He pointed out that so
much attention was being
focused on New Orleans in
the horrendous aftermath,
“but it was Mississippi
that received the most
grievous blow.”
Grievous blow. What a
unique way to say what
others would have said by
using more generic adjec
tives like “terrible”, “big
gest”, “worse”, “horrible”,
or “massive.”
Having been enthralled
by Gov. Barbour dur
ing a speech he gave at
the Peabody Hotel in
Memphis, I consider him
to be a great orator and
vigilant protector of the
Southern language.
For months, I pon
dered that our beautiful
language, though not yet
lying in repose six feet
under, is definitely strug
gling for the breath to sur
vive.
It occurred to me that
perhaps it was that we
are so many generations
removed from our Scotch-
Irish and English ances
tors that we had simply,
over time, lost the mem
ory of their lilting, poet
ic words that had trav
eled with them across an
ocean’s span.
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Then, suddenly without
expectation, I was able to
pinpoint what is happen
ing.
I was reading a biog
raphy of the legendary
Atlanta Constitution’s
Pulitzer Prize- winning
editor Ralph McGill, the
book having been loaned
to me by his beloved pro
tege Reg Murphy. There,
buried in its pages, I found
the answer.
McGill, raised a Calvinist
Puritan, retreated from
religious beliefs for many
years, but eventually the
roots of his Tennessee
raising returned him to
the Bible’s ancient truths.
Even during the time that
he was agnostic, accord
ing to the book, he faith
fully wrote and spoke in
the language of the Bible
Belt’s people.
The riddle was solved.
What has happened
here is that the Bible Belt
is no longer reading the
King James version of the
Bible. It, with its difficul
ty in language, has been
traded in by the majority
of Southerners for simpler
translations that tell sto
ries straight out by using
today’s contemporary lan
guage. These versions are
bland, uninteresting but
completely understand
able.
By moving en mass to
plainer versions of the
Bible, we have sacrificed
our gorgeous language,
laying It, without thought
or concern, at the altar of
simplicity.
Though I have always
preferred the King James
Bible, I must admit that
I, too, own less compli
cated Biblical tomes, all
of which have been gifts.
I, too, own up to the fact
that I have read them.
But going forth, I shall
embrace exclusively the
poetic language of King
James and pray - in my
simple language - that I
absorb the mystical beau
ty of its words.
I started this morning.
And now I have a new
mantra, courtesy of the
book of James.
Be ye doers of the word,
and not just hearers only.
So it is my hope that I
will do unto my words as
my blessed ancestors did
unto theirs and as Miss
Virgie still does unto hers.
‘Tis important, I
believe.
Ronda Rich is the best
selling author of What
Southern Women Know
(That Every Woman
Should) and The Town
That Came A-Courtin ’.
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Lacey Marie Herman, to Stephen Phillip Pritchett
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Michael Herman of Perry, David and Mary Ann Thompson
of Columbia, S.C. announce the engagement of their daugh
ter, Lacey Marie Herman, to Stephen Phillip Pritchett, son
of Clifton and Nancy Pritchett of Hawkinsville.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Sara Alice Herman
and the late Harry Herman of Hwkinsville and Mr. and
Mrs. -Theadore Myers of Warwick. She is a 1998 gradu
ate of Perry High School and a graduate of the College of
Cosmeknowledge in Macon. She is employed as a hair stylist
with Mane Cutters in Perry.
The groom-elect is the grandson of the late Dr. and Mrs.
Stephen J. Burich, Jr. of Hawkinsville, Virginia S. Pritchett
and the late Algia P Pritchett of Cochran. He is a 2001
graduate of Hawkinsville High school and a 2003 graduate
of the Middle Georgia Regional Police Academy in Macon.
He is an officer with the Hawkinsville Police Department.
The private wedding'will be held Sept. 9. All friends and
relatives are invited to a reception honoring the couple Sept.
9 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the First
United Methodist Church, Hawkinsville.
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