Red brick covers the outside of the ballpark, but it is no facade. It is the real deal. The concrete bleachers at Grayson Stadium were part of the original ballpark built in 1926, and the seating bowl was rebuilt in 1941 after a devastating hurricane blew through this coastal Georgia city the year before.
Orga Virginia Washington Davis of Hurricane will celebrate her 100th birthday on May 23. A family reunion to mark the event will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 14 at the First Baptist Church of Hurricane, where she is a member. Friends and acquaintances are invited, but no gifts, please. Davis, a direct descendant of George Washington's brother, Lawrence, was born May 23, 1905, at home on the family farm on Washington Hill. She graduated from Hurricane High School in 1926, in a class of five, of which one other member (Emily Mynes) still survives. Attending Marshall College (now Marshall University) in Huntington, and Morris Harvey College in Charleston, studying education, she prepared herself to be a schoolteacher. She taught at different schools, finishing her career with 17 years as ...
cthomas@cnpapers.com 304-348-1232 The vintage Buster Keaton silent film, "The General", from 1926, along with a short comedy from the silent era, will be screened at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at Forrest Burdette United Methodist Church in Hurricane.
A retired teacher who will be 100 years old later this month has been honored with a special citation passed by Putnam County school board. Orga Virginia Washington Davis attended Marshall College and Morris Harvey College after her graduation from Hurricane High School in 1926.
ST. GEORGE -- For the first time since 1926, the annual Washington County Fair parade is moving out of Hurricane, and Mayor Tom Hirschi is not happy about it. I don't want to flame the fire, but they know they did the wrong thing and everybody else knows it," said Hirschi, who was born and raised in Hurricane and is serving his second term as mayor of this growing city about 17 miles northeast of St. George.
ST. GEORGE -- For the first time since 1926, the annual Washington County Fair parade is moving out of Hurricane, and Mayor Tom Hirschi is not happy about it. I don't want to flame the fire, but they know they did the wrong thing and everybody else knows it," said Hirschi, who was born and raised in Hurricane and is serving his second term as mayor of this growing city about 17 miles northeast of St. George.
Today's Obituaries Bolton, Barbara J. Brown, Ruby M. Courtright, Frances Crowder, Joyce A. Daniel, Phyllis G. DeBoard, Judy C. Denna, Reginald Z. Divita, James Sr. Ervin, Marie P. Godfrey, Robert S. Hackworth, Carl L. Herndon, Mildred L. Johns, Thurman C. Jones, William Lewis, Kennison M. Manns, Luther W. Messer, Robert L. Porter, Gail Reed, Mark E. Seabolt, Homer H. Smith, Leo B. Talley, F.T. Thomas, Freddy White, James R. Woodward, William F. Woodyard, Harriet J. Barbara Jean Bolton
...Ida Frances Courtright of Hurricane passed away suddenly November 19, 2011. She was boorn September 12, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Walter and Gertr...
Today Bolton, Barbara J. Brown, Ruby M. Courtright, Frances Crowder, Joyce A. Daniel, Phyllis G. DeBoard, Judy C. Denna, Reginald Z. Divita, James Sr. Ervin, Marie P. Godfrey, Robert S. Hackworth, Carl L. Herndon, Mildred L. Johns, Thurman C. Jones, William Lewis, Kennison M. Manns, Luther W. Messer, Robert L. Porter, Gail Reed, Mark E. Seabolt, Homer H. Smith, Leo B. Talley, F.T. Thomas, Freddy White, James R. Woodward, William F. Woodyard, Harriet J. Barbara Jean Bolton
...Ida Frances Courtright of Hurricane passed away suddenly November 19, 2011. She was boorn September 12, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Walter and Gertr...
Today's Obituaries Ball, Iva N. Bosia, Miriam Clark, Kevin L. Comer, Mary E. Dolin, Irene J. Ferrell, Fred C. Groom, Lila M. Hodges, Ruth F. Hoff, Genevieve S. Lusk, Shirley M. Nelson, Gertrude I. Pauley, Jessie E. Tackett, Margaret L. Tawney, Ernest G. Iva Nona Ball
...Mary Elizabeth Comer, 84, of Hurricane passed away on Saturday, November 5, 2011, at CAMC...Born November 14, 1926, in Charleston, Mrs. Comer was a daughter of the l...
And as we enter what weather prognosticators are euphemistically calling another "active season," citizens and civil servants from Texas to New England are asking themselves: Where's the next New Orleans? The Associated Press has pinpointed five of the most vulnerable U.S. coastal spots.
... counties most threatened by Atlantic hurricanes. That figure has more than tripled since 1950, and...Since the 1926 hurricane and especially since Andrew, the area ha...
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