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Ralph Gordon: Graveyards and Cemeteries
By RALPH GORDON
Fri,06/09/23-5:00PM , 1,448 Reads
There is a difference in graveyards and cemeteries. The term graveyard usually refers to a place where people were buried long ago. Simple enough. Graveyards are usually connected to a country church. It is becoming an antiquated term, used by older folks. Cemeteries are often dedicated to certain groups like veterans or families.
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Ralph Gordon: The Stratton Booger
By RALPH GORDON
Thu,05/18/23-1:00PM , 5,540 Reads
Has anybody heard a report on the Stratton Booger lately? By lately, I mean in the last 30 years. It has been at least that long since any sighting or hearing of him occurred. You might not have ever heard of the Stratton Booger. If you haven’t you were not around in the 1950s and ‘60s.
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The Class of 1957 includes, from left, Front: Larry Tucker, Betty Fredrick Rawlings, Becky Franklin Eichelberger, Jeanette Beevers Thrash, Mack Shelton, Jean Foster Zimmer. Back: Willis Smith, Claude Doyle, Will Clark, Fred Allen Barfoot, Gary Hillman and Johnny Neil Smith. Not Pictured was Mary Dollar Thomas. | Photos by Brent Maze/The Appeal

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Ralph Gordon: Union High School Class Reunion held for classes of 1957-1960
By RALPH GORDON
Fri,05/12/23-9:00AM , 4,819 Reads
Last week we visited the golden age of Union. The age when Saturday nights came alive with teens making the loop from downtown to the Hudson’s Store and back again and again. We remembered the day of the drive-in, real hamburgers, and milk shakes made from Ford’s ice cream.
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Ralph Gordon: Saturday nights in Union
By RALPH GORDON
Fri,05/05/23-1:00PM , 4,426 Reads
We didn’t have a drive-in or picture show at Beulah Hubbard or Little Rock but our good friends in Union welcomed us to hang out at theirs. There were several cafes in Union back in the 1960s. Most of them closed at sundown or earlier. But the drive-ins stayed open until eleven pm. After the picture show, you had three choices of drive-ins.
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