Clara May Hawkins and her children and their families from here went to Lebanon on Saturday evening and attended the birthday celebration for Kenneth Hawkins on his 70th birthday. It was held in the First Presbyterian Church, where Kenneth and Elaine are members. There was a crowd of people in attendance, to wish him best wishes.
Martha Snow celebrated her 92 birthday on Sunday, with lunch at Center Hill Restuarant. Her son, Jerry, and his wife, Linda, Snow and their three children and families of Nashville, helped celebrated. There were 20 present. They sang “Happy Birthday”. She got a lot of gifts and well wishes. She said she had a wonderful birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Pease and Heaven of Ala. spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Artie Daw and Nicholas, while the electricity was getting restored to their home due to the bad storms.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Jewell Reed Arnold in his death. God bless and comfort everyone.
 Linda Grant of Nashville came and visited Faye Adkins for the weekend. Saturday they went to the Young Cemetery, for decoration.
They visited Larry Daw for lunch. Larry’s brother, Buddy, and his wife, Rita Daw, of N.Y. were present. Other guests attending were Artie, Regenia and Nichlos Daw, Willie Noel and Willie Dowling, III and Heaven Peace of Ala.
After lunch, Linda and Faye went to visit Frankie Taylor, then they went to Kilgore’s for dinner.
We were happy to have Linda at New Home Baptist on Sunday. Faye, Linda and Marti Carelli-Gilbert went to Center Hill Resturant for lunch after church.
Recent visitors of Barbara Self were Grover and Cindy Moss of Hermitage and Barbara Burton.
Wanda Tramel of Crossville spent Friday until Sunday with her mother, Lu Autry Malone. They went to Memorial Baptist Church together on Sunday.
Visitors of Ruth Sutton were Jean Patten, Robbie Young, Billy Sutton, Sue McCoig, Michelle and Ali Patton and Linda Sutton.
Someone said that everything in life is a story.  If you think about it for a moment, that is exactly true.  I can honestly say that I appreciate the time when I grew up.  While thinking back to the 1920s and 30s, our entertainment was storytelling; covering family history, news of the day, and sometimes some tall tales. I developed a love for storytelling.
I guess that is why I enjoy talking on the telephone every day and reminiscing with some of my older friends, the ones who grew up during the same time period that I did.  I know nothing about email, texting, social media and any of the things that I hear from others or see advertised on television.
As a child, I was always spellbound by the stories told by Grandma White.  She passed her gift for gab onto my Uncle Claude White, another great storyteller, and I suppose I also got the bug from her.
My son, Ralph, says he appreciates storytelling because of the many that I shared while he was growing up.  Ralph is putting together a collection of my stories and says that he’s going to publish them in a book someday.  While the thought kind of embarrasses me a little, he says that future Vaughn family members should know how life was during the Great Depression and how our family survived by the grace of God and hard work.
My daddy and mama started housekeeping in 1918 with only $10 dollars between them.  They rented a house $2 per month and my daddy sharecropped.
In closing, let me thank my readers who tell me weekly that they appreciate my articles in The Smithville Review.