Sugar Hair Cut by Larry Dixon Read

Jerry Hardin was my hero. He was also my cousin. He was three years older and I desperately wanted to be like him. When I was in the second grade, Jerry got a flat top haircut. When mother carried me to the barber, I begged her for a flat top hair cut. She didn’t approve of my hair being cut that short

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The White Cousins, and much more, by Larry Leon Dixon Read

"He's not moving! Is he dead?" The little ruffian stared down at the large black rubber tire and Jerry lying lifeless at the bottom of the steep hill. When the huge truck tire with Jerry securely tucked inside accidentally went hurdling

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A Lost Little Boy
The Book by Larry Leon Dixon 2008 © Read

To my daughter Terri,
I wrote this because I wanted to give you something very special this Christmas. What better gift can a person give than of themselves, their time and their memories? These short stories will

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Just Trying to Make a Living
A Story About Ausie White by Larry Dixon Read

A solitary rider sat silently on the seat of the of the one horse farming wagon filled with freshly cut limbs and brush. The dusty brown hat with its wide brim was loosely sitting on his nodding head. It was shading the solid black hair protruding from

J. W. White musings about the meeting of his mother and father, to Larry Dixon 2009 Read

Mother and Daddy met at Pine Grove Church. They probably married there where their earthly bodies lay. Mother was probably with a singing group from Mays Crossroads Methodist Church. She was real good at playing an organ and had a voice that was great. The only time I

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J. W. White on his Father, William Ausie White Read

Daddy's Dad farmed and went from church to church singing. I think he was looking for a better life in California. He must have worked because all of the younger kids that went there ended up well off. Mother and daddy got off the train in Little Rock, Arkansas and came back to Alabama.

Ausie White and Home Remedies
J. W. White to Larry Dixon in an email Read

Dad (Ausie White) got a fishbone hung in his throat. Lost down to skin and bones. Time was in the very early 1900's. Country Dr said he would have to cut daddy's throat or he was going to die. You know about the high infection rate back then. A black man said he would die

J.W. White to Larry Dixon on his Grandparents William Macon Lane and Joella Johnson Read

Mother's dad Macon Lane was gone a lot. Have been told that he was a Lumberjack. That fits the meeting of him and Grandmother Lane. Grandmother Johnson-Lane was from Piedmont, Ala. Location at the foot of the mountains. In the V of the Jacksonville and Gadsden highways