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Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
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Sun Graphics will color your world
By KEN BECK
The Wilson Post
WATERTOWN -- The effervescent, artistic duo of Patrick Jackson and Donna Delmas has been painting Watertown red for the past 13 years.
And far beyond the city limits of this town of 1,400, their colorful sign work as well as their murals, video props and gym-floor patterns are being viewed coast to coast.
A pair of their larger signs for Historic Watertown and Jim’s Antiques adorn the side of a brick wall just up the way from their studio, while smaller signs help customers scope such businesses as Nona Lisa Pizzeria in Watertown and Shenandoah Mills and the Lebanon Antique Mall in Lebanon.
The husband-and-wife team, who operate Sun Graphic Signs out of the old Oakley Hardware Store building, just a bucket kick or two off of Highway 70, also has created props and signs for scores of country music videos, commercials and TV shows including “Nashville,” a family soap opera, starring Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Powers Boothe and Eric Close, which debuts Oct. 10 on ABC.
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Our Feathered Friends-Aug. 29 |
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
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By RAY POPE
What a week we had at the Wilson County Fair, with all my friends coming through to chat and have their pictures placed in The Wilson Post on the "Seen at the Fair” page. Usually the weather will play a part in the comings and goings at the fair, but this year we had a little rain to start the fair run, and the rest was cooler weather than usual which played a large part in the crowds.
Shirley Manaley stopped by and as soon as I saw her, I knew she was a bird lover. Shirley was decked out in a beautiful blue shirt loaded with pictures of some of my favorite birds. We had a nice talk and I found out that she lived in Nashville.
Taking a trip through Fiddler's Grove brought me to the old popcorn stand that used to sit on the Lebanon square next to the old courthouse. Set up next to the popcorn was an old friend, Marty Rush, who has a passion to work with injured animals. Marty was known for starting the Wildlife Rescue and Rehab Center in Mt. Juliet. She is another that has worked with me at the old annual Wildflower Pilgrimage that took place in the spring at the Cedars of Lebanon State Park. They will bring different animals to show others what they look like in person. |
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The brotherhood of emotions |
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
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By BECKY ANDREWS
Wilson Living Magazine
My children have very different personalities. The oldest is kind, considerate, extremely unorganized and forgiving to a fault. Some of these traits he inherited from his mama. The youngest is cautious, focused, type A and if he’s wronged, he holds a grudge.
Proof of this was when he played baseball a couple of years ago. A little boy from an opposing team ran on the field. My child turned to me and said, “That’s the boy who took the ball away from me when I played soccer!”
He then walked past the kid, stared him down and gave him the universal sign for, “I’m watching you.”
This may not seem like a big deal ifJacksonwasn’t referring to the one season he played soccer when he was 3!
He inherited these traits, especially the grudge thing, from his dad. My husband still talks about a friend from elementary school who tore his Bo Derek poster, and even though he hasn’t seen this person in more than 30 years he insists that kid should be punished. |
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Colin Farrell’s pop was a pro footballer in Ireland |
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
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Dear Ken: Tell us something about actor Colin Farrell, star of the “Total Recall” remake.
Farrell, 36, was born in Dublin, Ireland, where his mum was a housewife and his dad a professional football player with the Dublin Shamrocks who also owned a company that imported and exported canned goods. Farrell studied at the Gaiety School of Acting before getting the role of Danny Byrne in the BBC series “Ballykissangel” in 1998. He got his first film lead role in 2000 in “Tigerland” and hasn’t looked back. Among his other movies are “American Outlaws,” “Daredevil,” “Phone Booth,” “S.W.A.T.,” “The Recruit,” “Minority Report,” “Intermission,” “Alexander,” “The New World,” “Miami Vice,” “In Bruges,” “Crazy Heart,” “Fright Night” and “Horrible Bosses.” Whew, is he busy or what? Later this year, he stars in “Seven Pyschopaths.” The father of two kiddos was a friend of Elizabeth Taylor and read a poem that she had pre-selected at her funeral. |
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Fast pitch softball the name of his game |
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
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Joe Lynch rocket fired ball at 105 mph
By KEN BECK
The Wilson Post
WATERTOWN -- Joe Lynch lives a quiet life of retirement on a quiet street in the quiet community of Watertown, but five decades ago he was making a big noise for himself in the world of fast-pitch softball.
A sportswriter once described the Nashville native as the “bear that walks like a man.” At 6-foot-3 and 240 pounds in his prime, Lynch won 576 games and lost 94 in a career that spanned 1959 to 1981. Sixty-one of those contests on the diamond were either perfect games or no-hitters. And in four games, the Amateur Softball Association of America’s National Hall of Famer struck out every batter he faced.
The five-time All-American hurler won 53 consecutive games, and in 1965 had an unblemished record of 34 wins and no losses.
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