Macon Telegraph: Ed Grisamore

Stars and stripes ... forever

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:58 EDT

Bryan Shelburne has led trombones through the rocket's red glare. He has directed woodwinds by the dawn's early light and urged bass drums and tenor voices to rise above the fruited plain.

He feels his presence now

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:43 EDT

He can't be sure, but he might have seen Bobby Jones' eyes that day.

When the wind came out of nowhere

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:56 EDT

Before the sun made an appearance the morning of May 11, civil defense sirens could be heard up and down Forsyth Road.

New meaning to the word 'sweetheart'

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:10 EDT

There are reports that newspaper readership is on the decline, but don't try telling that to Joey Bunn.

She still has a cheering section

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:52 EDT

Folks have been rooting for Jessica Elliott all her life.

Quilt is a survivor, too

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:46 EDT

Judy Lilley feels a kinship with a pink quilt.

Around the world without leaving the premises

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:08 EDT

Some folks can walk around the world and not notice a thing.

The apostle of Walnut Street

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:28 EDT

The box fan on the chair inside the gas station has three speeds to stir the air.

Postcards from a summer day

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:28 EDT

Today is the first day of summer, so I am sending you a postcard.

A picture by Down syndrome photographer is worth a thousand words

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:57 EDT

Jim and Ann Berry brake for sunsets.

Gris & more

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:22 EDT

Cool thoughts and Monday mutterings from the Gris pile. Don't look now, but Friday marks the official start of summer. Hope you've been enjoying this nice "spring" weather we've been having. ...

'I be fine, Daddy'

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:20 EDT

Mike Kozloski hears four

A father's gift that keeps on giving

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:05 EDT

Sitting in the swing on his back porch, Ralph Pannell can listen to the train whistle from miles away.

Phone calls not same without Nick

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:48 EDT

Seven summers ago, the late Earl Zimmerman called me at my office.

Thanks for the memories

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:39 EDT

Maybe one day I'll have time to go back and count all the nouns, verbs and adjectives that have come from the tips of these fingers.

The mighty oak comes down

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:13 EDT

The mighty oak stood guard outside the window at Park Memorial United Methodist Church last Sunday, just as it had every Sunday morning for more than a century.

Must be something in the ice

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:44 EDT

It didn't simply rain the night of June 7, 2003. It poured.

Her D-Day was living history

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:02 EDT

Paulette Greene spent the first 18 years of her life a lot closer to our sister city of Macon, France, than to Macon, Ga.

Memorial Day and the rest of us

Wed, 28 May 2008 07:29 EDT

Frank Buckles ought to have his mug on Mount Rushmore. Or, at the very least, on a $10 bill.

Everything came up 'Rosies'

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:11 EDT

One is named Thelma. The other is Lucile.

Some things you never forget

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:39 EDT

Loan Kim Tran doesn't really remember the first snap of cold air she breathed in Macon.

Crawford twins pack 1-2 punch

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:15 EDT

On the day before the first day of summer in 1990, Tonya Collins gave birth to twins.

Gris & more

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:59 EDT

Random thoughts on a Monday with some leftovers from the storm. My heart goes out to those still suffering and displaced from a Mother's Day none of us will soon forget.

Two churches, same name; two twisters, same fury

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:22 EDT

DRY BRANCH — When the mother of all storms broke through the dawn of Mother's Day, it tore off the top of the Stone Creek Baptist Church.

Her uncle flew with the Wright brothers

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:12 EDT

At her uncle's funeral, Margery Smoke noticed the gray-haired man across the aisle at the church.

Marrow drive in honor of special teacher

Wed, 14 May 2008 01:08 EDT

Quest for the great woodpecker

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:42 EDT

If there is a bird in this town, Paul Johnson has seen it, heard it and illustrated it.

A mom looks back at all those mailboxes

Sun, 11 May 2008 01:03 EDT

She missed the winter here. She was in Tulsa, Okla., where the shivering winds blow in from the prairie.

The daily reminders of Miss Magnolia

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:12 EDT

Lonzy Edwards keeps the memory of his mother close to his heart.

Sun refuses to set in the Wes

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:57 EDT

Some mornings, if it’s not too hot or too cold or raindrops aren't splashing all over the city, Wes Heath will slide into his motorized scooter and ride from his home in Castlegate to the Waffle House on Zebulon Road.