Growing Up In Waldron

Mrs. Hazel Smoot was my sixth grade teacher.  The "middle school" concept didn't exist in those days, so sixth grade was still...

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This really has nothing to do with Growing Up In Waldron, but occasionally, as a public service, I feel the need to share an experience from...

The summer of 1974, between my graduation from high school and my freshman year at Westark, I needed to make some money.  I had a part-time ...

It's ironic, actually, that I spent 16 years teaching math to sixth graders.  Math was not my favorite subject in school.  In fact, I ma...

Photo courtesy of http://onceuponawin.wordpress.com/vote/page/42/ It was a mysterious, lurking threat each summer.  Something in the air,...

Not all of these are strictly Waldron businesses, but here's a list of all the advertisers in the 1974 Waldron High School yearbook: W...