Stay in your lane

By Shawn Blackmon Back in the fall of 1883 the small boys of Gadsden were enjoying such things as: Jeter’s world, “preachin’ Jim Abbott’s mauling machine, a flying jenny motored by a pony, slingshot hunting of pigeons that almost smothered the old county jail on Chestnut Street, the activity around Elder Bob Barton’s “Horace Greely […]
Fun for small boys back in fall of 1883

By Danny Crownover Back in the fall of 1883 the small boys of Gadsden were enjoying such things as: Jeter’s world, “preachin’ Jim Abbott’s mauling machine, a flying jenny motored by a pony, slingshot hunting of pigeons that almost smothered the old county jail on Chestnut Street, the activity around Elder Bob Barton’s “Horace Greely […]