Editor, The Times: I am writing in response to Mr. Larson’s comments on my letter in last week’s edition of
Since I was born and raised in Blackshear almost 80 years ago, I think I know more about what Blackshear was like, since he only moved here in the 1980s.
We had department stores, shoe stores, grocery stores, hardware, feed, appliance, jewelry, newsstands (with fresh homemade doughnuts), variety dime stores, a movie theater, drug stores, dentists, doctors, barber and beauty shops, service stations, a cab stand, plus others I won’t mention.
We now have antique shops where most items can be found at garage sales, sandwich shops and lunch shops, manicure, beauty shops, a tattoo shop, ice cream and tropical fish and pets? Most likely the fish will end up in streams and rivers, causing problems for our natural species of fish. Right now, the flathead catfish is a problem.
So, I don’t think he knows anything about the town I grew up in. Looks like we have to agree to disagree. As the old saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. We certainly don’t see eye to eye on art. From the New Webster Dicitonary, graffito — an inscription or drawing on a wall or a rock.
In closing, at least I have my memories of Blackshear as it used to be. No one can take that away from me.
Mary Callahan Blackshear
