About Ed Durham – relative and pro baseball player

Ed is a Woodward-associated person. William Woodward Jr.’s grandfather hunted with Ed Durham. Ed Durham could hunt quail with a .22 rifle shooting solid rounds. Shooting the birds out of the air on the rise.   Edward Fant “Bull” Durham (August 17, 1907 – April 27, 1976) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1929 to 1933 […]

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The Sizemores – Dogs Left in Trunk of Car

The Sizemores lived in the Leighton community in Alabama, not far from Florence.  They ran a classic country store that Percy Sledge used to sweep for them before “When a Man Loves a Woman” became a major hit record. My father and brother hunted with the Sizemores on a regular basis after meeting them through […]

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Greengate Montessori School

I remember the goats and the rabbits. At some point racoons got into the rabbit pen and ate them. I spent a recess going around looking for clues as to how it happened and “tracking” the rabbits’ attempted escape although now I’m pretty sure they were eaten in the pen. I also remember a rope […]

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