some beginnings

Dear readers, coming soon to this site will be posts from several esteemed authors emanating from "the hill" and thereabouts. More on this "hill" stuff as we go along.

Just check out the pic posted here and imagine that these guys are our relatives and that the grins on their faces are a harbinger...of...well, of us. Only we're likely to have more teeth-and hopefully a longer life span...well, maybe. For those guys, working in the cotton mill, smoking Viceroys and drinking PBR was not conducive to long life; but neither is driving the highways and bi-ways of America today. Pick your period. Pick your poison.
In any event, you'll get posts from the likes of Larry Reid, David Ridgeway and, of course, your humble narrator. No pointy headed intellectuals here; hell, just take another look at the guys in the photo-that should tell you something.

Yes, we've all come a long way from the simple, but hard life those guys lived, but make no mistake, they are vintage us.

Your humble writers are worn, torn, battered and bruised in different ways than the guys in the photo. Sure, today we all live comfortable lives of air conditioned splendor, but modern life has its own rogue agents out there; taking their toll in the persistent march of time and the creeping lethargy of information overload.

All that aside, we are still sprite enough to play a contentious game of croquet or even pen a missive that makes all the assigned wickets and ultimately hits the stake. More on the wickets and stakes stuff forthcoming as well.

Meanwhile, watch for the lad's insightful posts in the coming days concerning various and sundry topics-all with a hint of mill hill logic.

Bon appetite!