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A Hobo’s Life

The town of Shelbyville in Bedford County, Tennessee is a unique town. The town sits on a highland rim limestone bluff overlooking the Duck River. The river runs across the Eastern and Southern part of the town. Today the town is known as the Walking Horse Capitol of the World. In the early 1950s itContinue reading “A Hobo’s Life”

Ruthie’s Ways Part 1

Ruthie’s WaysPart One From 1966 to 1999 Ruthie Ellerby worked tirelessly in the local cotton mill in Trinity, Georgia. She’d still be a “spinner” at the mill if it hadn’t been for “the mill ‘a closing,” as she’d always say to her friends and family. Ruthie never married and never had any kids of herContinue reading “Ruthie’s Ways Part 1”