by Alli Marshall | Sep 8, 2023 | Timeline Stories
Hank Garland made his way to the corner of College and Lexington. The building had a painted sign on the window: Hogan’s Watch Repair. But it was almost impossible to read for all the things piled up against the glass on the inside. Old chairs, dusty books, a pair of...
by Alli Marshall | Aug 1, 2023 | Timeline Stories
The makeshift recording studio on the roof of the Vanderbilt Hotel was hot as blazes. It was already steamy enough outside, hot even for August, and being up on the roof got us that much closer to the sun, as I figured it. Walt and I had traveled by foot, wagon, and...
by Alli Marshall | May 29, 2023 | Timeline Stories
It was the eve of Christmas Eve, so a kind of nothing day. Almost a holiday, but really an in-between day. A day for people who cared about Christmas and holidays to rush around buying last-minute gifts. Decorating, wrapping, baking. That’s what was going on at my...
by Alli Marshall | May 8, 2023 | Timeline Stories
Gertrude C. Saunders was born in Asheville, North Carolina, on March 25, 1903. When she was a senior at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., she left the school to go on tour with vaudeville and stage performer Billy King. The Billy King Stock Co. was in residence at...
by Alli Marshall | Apr 30, 2023 | Timeline Stories
The day the LaSalle Phaeton arrived was one of those perfect spring days. May 9, 1927. The pink dogwoods and cherry trees had dropped their blossoms, but the azaleas were in full bloom. Everywhere in Woolsey was a riot of reds and purples and the fresh green of new...
