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Perry Kiwanis Club hosts 14 th annual talent show for young people
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Waiting in suspense. These young contestants, all in elementary school, wait for the winners to be announced. First
place went to Vincent Glover, second place to Emily Wallace and Rachel Allen, third place to Chelsea and Russell
Bugg.
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Cufe cats Emily Wallace and Rachel Allen won second
place in the elementary school division.
RICH
From page 6B
our little country church,
crossed that line and just
kept going. It was a summer
afternoon and we had just
finished dinner (not lunch,
mind you, for the country
folks never call the mid
day meal that) at her par
ents’ house after a morning
service during the August
revival.
The grown-ups sat under
an enormous oak tree, talk
ing while I sprawled on the
ground with a book.
“Looky there,” Gladys’
mama said in a puzzled voice.
We looked up to see Gladys
stomping up the red dirt
road with a baby straddling
her bony hip and trailing a
string of straggled-looking
Photos by Charlotte Perkins
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Lindsey Wells was all smiles over her first place trophy in
the high school division. She is a country singer.
young’ins behind her.
She was wearing a light
weight cotton dress, flat
loafers covered with dry
summer dust and swinging
a black pocket book crooked
in one arm. Even I, innocent
though I was, could tell she
was a mad woman.
“Howdy do,” she said
politely but unsmiling to
her parents’ company then
turned her stony glare to
LIFESTYLE
her daddy and mama.
“I come home,” she said
plaintively, lifting her chin
stubbornly. “I’ve up and left
Royce and I ainT a’goin’
back. I done made up my
mind and it’s gonna stay
made up.”
It stayed made up, all
right. For Gladys moved that
passel of young’ins in to that
tiny white frame house and
stayed put. Still there to this
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Ashley Hall and Hannah Rosebrook took second place
in the high school division for their song and dance rou
tine.
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lan Tew, Kurt Wagner and Jarrod Jackson were the final
contestants in the show with their band. They won third
place in the high school division.
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Vincent Glover won first place in the elementary division
for his piano playing.
day, too.
Royce, I overhead the
grown-ups talking, had
come home drunk one time
too many, his pockets empty
from another night of poker.
Oh, he tried to get her back,
throwing his dignity to the
wind and carrying on with
unbecoming rousts of howl
ing, moaning and begging.
She turned a deaf ear and
that was that.
HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
For what Rodney Crowell
said is true. It’s always been
true. When a woman is
through with a man, she’s
through.
And she doesn’t look
back.
Rondo Rich is the best
selling author of What
Southern Women Know
(That Every Woman Should)
and The Town That Came
A-Courtin’.