Gentle Giants

Gentle Giants

In the Disney animated classic Dumbo, the song “Pink Elephants” tells the tale of having raised one too many glasses and afterward being visited by dancing visions of pastel-colored pachyderms. Thinking one is seeing a herd of elephants roaming the plains of Oklahoma...
Answering the Call

Answering the Call

They say blood is thicker than water, but the connection that Dale Seiter and Gary Lawrence share goes beyond that well-worn idiom. The two men, both of whom are in their mid-fifties and live and work in the communities where they grew up, are not related except in a...
The Fire

The Fire

  It was a Monday, already sticky under the heat of an Arkansas summer morning, David Scherrey dropped his wife off at work and nosed the car toward home. David was assistant manager of the Piggly Wiggly in those days, and the father of three young kids, along...
The Long and the Short of Things

The Long and the Short of Things

  Tradition can take many forms. It resides in high school pep rallies, a favorite campsite or a tailgating ritual and abounds in family holiday celebrations. But in our increasingly disposable society, there are fewer and fewer businesses that can legitimately...

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