By Gary Lloyd The questions, outrage and jokes posted to Facebook in recent months have persisted longer than the waits at the Trussville railroad crossings. My intention for this column was to give you some history of the railroad tracks in Trussville, which reached this area in 1870, with locomotives carrying sandstone throughout the Southeast. … Continue reading My Train of Thought
By Gary Lloyd Our son was born in 2020, and for the first eighteen months of his life, we lived off the beaten path in Trussville – does that actually still exist here? – where he saw more deer than people. So, when we moved over the summer of 2021 to a Trussville subdivision full … Continue reading THE CREST OF A WAVE
By Gary Lloyd SCOOBA, Miss. – Former Clay-Chalkville High School and University of Alabama standout defensive lineman Quinton Dial is being inducted into the East Mississippi Community College Sports Hall of Fame. The induction will happen Thursday, Sept. 23 when the Lions host Holmes Community College at Sullivan-Windham Field in Scooba, Miss. Dial is one … Continue reading Former Clay, Crimson Tide standout heads to EMCC Hall of Fame
By Gary Lloyd Ernest Hemingway penned A Farewell to Arms, 300-plus pages about a World War I love affair between an expatriate and an English nurse. I’m about to write A Farewell to Crispitos, 500-plus words about a 2021 love affair between an entire community and a fully cooked tortilla packed with chicken – Tyson … Continue reading A farewell to Crispitos
By Gary Lloyd To find relics of history, we must often turn pages of thick textbooks or sit in front of the History Channel for hours on end. Many of us will never get the chance to walk barefoot on Omaha Beach and scoop some of that sand, or head north to Boston and stand … Continue reading In Trussville, a game of capture the slag
By Gary Lloyd I am an unapologetic morning person, and I’m sure half of you reading that just cringed. I understand. Some folks can’t be bothered until every drop of that venti salted caramel mocha latte with two pumps of vanilla, two more of hazelnut, with whipped cream and caramel drizzle, is gone, but I’m … Continue reading Before the sun rises
By Gary Lloyd I’ve covered high school football games across Alabama and Mississippi for well over a decade now, and just before each season begins, I look back at the previous season. Who was impressive? Which players are returning? Who is going to break out? Which programs have new coaches? But this year, I’ve hardly … Continue reading Ready for some football
The effects of COVID-19 are far reaching. One area that has been particularly impacted is the athletics recruiting process. Briarwood Christian School’s athletics director and quarterback coach Jay Mathews recently reflected on the June football evaluation camp experience and how the process has changed as Briarwood’s Christopher Vizzina accepted invitations to come to camp and … Continue reading A Q&A on the Current College Football Recruiting Process
By Gary Lloyd I have stood inside the ropes at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, among the pink azaleas and tall dogwoods, and played for free at the Country Club of Birmingham, yet, inexplicably, I can’t get a long-shuttered driving range out of my mind. It always seemed to be on … Continue reading Home on the range
By Gary Lloyd The spine is tearing and the dog-eared pages are beginning to curl, but the words inside still hold together. Well, at least they do for me. It’s a book from my freshman year of college, titled Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How, by James Stovall, and its importance was lectured to … Continue reading That’s news to me
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