by editor | Jul 15, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Rex Woolbright was sorting through his late uncle Logan Drake’s estate in Newberry when he came across an old-looking, still-corked bottle of whiskey. “It was a bottle, and that was it,” recalled Woolbright. He couldn’t have been more wrong. That bottle of whiskey is...
by editor | Jul 13, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Are the Democrats headed for their Little Bighorn, with President Joe Biden as Col. Custer? The wish, you suggest, is father to the thought. Yet, consider. On taking office, Biden held a winning hand. Three vaccines, with excellent efficacy rates, had been created and...
by editor | Jul 13, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
VIRGINIA: Local Author Traces Family’s Civil War History In New Novel ROCKINGHAM, Va. — Local author Sam McGee’s new book, “Cartledge Creek,” is based on the lives of his Civil War-era ancestors in Richmond County and their experiences during the war. It’s a...
by editor | Jul 8, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Declaring their independence from British rule 245 years ago, the American colonists held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty...
by editor | Jul 7, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The 1836 battle for the Alamo is remembered as a David vs. Goliath story. A band of badly outnumbered Texans fought against oppression by the Mexican dictator Santa Anna, holding off the siege long enough for Sam Houston to move the main rebel force east and providing...
by editor | Jul 6, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
BUCKSTOWN, Pa. — The Duppstadt’s Country Store, sitting high on a plateau along the Lincoln Highway between Stoystown and Reels Corner, has served Somerset County residents and weary travelers since 1903. When you open the heavy wooden door and hear it creak...