Monthly Archives: January 2020

Lord Help Our Colts

January 1, 2020 | by Steve Nicewanger

Mercifully the season is finally over for the Horseshoe. A 37-20 spanking at the hands of the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars left the team with a 7-9 season record and a third place finish in the AFC South. The game was sort of a microcosm of the season itself for the … Read More

January 4, 1974: A Reflection

January 1, 2020 | by Al Hunter

It’s the Friday after Christmas. Trash cans are filled with cardboard. Garbage bags, stuffed with ripped wads of wrapping paper. News channels are remembering the events of the past year and recalling the names of the dearly departed. The news story recaps are sometimes painful, occasionally lamentable and often met … Read More

Intensely Personal

January 1, 2020 | by CJ Woods III

A new reader said to me that she found my columns to have been written from an “intensely personal” viewpoint. I mulled that over for a period of time before I admitted that she may be correct. The first words from me that were published in the Eastside Voice (now … Read More

The Timeless Cameo

January 1, 2020 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

Styles of jewelry go in and out of vogue. The geometric rhinestone creations of the 1930s, the teardrop earrings of the 1950s, and 1970s love beads have all come and gone. But one piece of jewelry has endured for centuries. Valued by many as a family heirloom and elevated by … Read More