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October 30, 2009
Memories: The best is yet to come
Between midnight and daylight on one Nov. 1, Nell Adams gave birth to the only child she and Dick Adams ever had
October 28, 2009
Enterprise High School set for last varsity game at Bates
Note: This is the second of a two-part collection of memories of R.L. Bates Memorial Stadium submitted by e-mail as a result of a recent column in this space.
October 26, 2009
Enterprise fans share fond memories of stadium
Earlier this football season an opportunity for Enterprise Wildcat football fans to share their favorite memories from 54 years of R.L. Bates Memorial Stadium was offered in this space.
October 15, 2009
Memories: Old magazine features simple pleasures
University of Minnesota quarterback Bobby Cox adorns the cover of the Nov. 4, 1957, edition of Sports Illustrated, then 25 cents, Max “PeeWee” Weeks recently brought to the Tackle Box Round Table.
October 09, 2009
Enterprise Wildcats lose two longtime fans
Now beyond the midpoint of the third football season since the March 1, 2007, tornado that destroyed Enterprise High School, a couple of personal observations have arisen about R.L. Bates Memorial Stadium in this, its expected last, season as home to the Wildcats.
October 01, 2009
Enterprise House of Adams at cutting edge of technology.
The House of Adams has long been at the cutting edge of technology.
September 23, 2009
Southern author contributes to stadium lore
Perhaps unknowingly, Southern novelist Pat Conroy contributed to R.L. Bates Memorial Stadium lore in his latest novel, “South of Broad.”
September 17, 2009
Memories of Enterprise: The sports story that began it all
You may recall previous discussion here of mint-condition 1960s Enterprise Wildcat football programs and a page from a 1966 “Cup O’Coffee,” the Enterprise High School newspaper, recently unearthed by Hilda Hagins and donated to the House of Adams archives.
September 10, 2009
Old football programs provide a peek at the past
You can thank Hilda Hagins for today’s look at yesteryear taken from several Enterprise High football programs she unearthed recently.
September 03, 2009
After 54 years, a great era ending
This is the third and final installment of a series of personal memories of the first 54 years of R.L. Bates Memorial Stadium, now in its final season as home of the Enterprise High School Wildcats varsity football team.
August 26, 2009
Memories of Bates
Helping set up chairs in Bates Memorial prior to the last game of the 1961
August 19, 2009
Field of memories
Editor’s Note: This is the first of three Memories of Enterprise columns recalling memorable Enterprise Wildcats players and games played at R.L. Bates Memorial Stadium, where the Wildcats will be playing football for the last time this season. A new stadium will be part of the new Enterprise High School site on Boll Weevil Circle
August 13, 2009
Junior World Series games ‘lovely’ to some
Seen and heard during the recently completed Junior Dixie Boys World Series baseball tournament at the Enterprise Recreational Complex:
“Where’s the infield grass? The dirt is lumpy!”
August 05, 2009
Americana’s distressing disappearance
Periodically, friends spanning the globe uncover, translate and transmit nostalgic glimpses, via e-mail, to that part of the House of Adams, the Canyon of Doom from whence comes today’s glimpse into the conglomerated disappearance of Americana we once held dear.
July 30, 2009
Some things never change
Boo Enterprise!
Some things never change.
May 28, 2009
Boats were more than something to fish from
The 2009 Bass Pro Shop’s Master Catalog lists a 12’ riveted jon boat for $599 and an all-welded “Grizzly” for $2,599.
May 21, 2009
Memories of City School, great people, great years
They’ve long been called the Fabulous Fifties, but when we first-tier Baby Boomers were living those years, ours were lives filled with yesterdays, todays, and tomorrows, mostly todays.
May 18, 2009
Many lessons learned in 90 years
For decades, the large white structure on West College Street has been known as College Street Elementary School.
May 14, 2009
Clem Mynard literally helped build city
Clem Mynard. There’s a name with a familiar ring to it.
May 07, 2009
Classic cars came with luxury items
No doubt, the average modern automobile has more luxury accoutrements than most top of- the-line cars had a generation ago. Or did they?
April 17, 2009
Mott Dunaway was unforgettable
If you don’t have a clue as to the meaning of the above, then you’ve never known Mary and Martha — May and Mott — Dunaway, two Mt. Pleasant lasses who burst upon the Enterprise scene in plenty of time to become unforgettable members of the Enterprise High School class of 1963, and valued friends to the rest of us.
April 16, 2009
Magazine stirs memories of Bonnie and Clyde
Grandson Lane Marler, 10, his sister, yes, he has one, Laci Elizabeth, 1, and their maternal first, second and third cousins enjoyed their annual Easter egg hunt recently.
April 09, 2009
Easter eggs good huntin’, eatin’
The blooming flowers, shrubs and trees that have covered everything around here in pollen lately brought back memories of bygone springs and the Easter eggs hunts that accompanied them.
March 15, 2009
Memories of Enterprise: Mixed signals are everywhere
Remember February’s last Sunday morning? On the House of Adams’ grounds, snow fell on Mother’s blooming azaleas, giving cause to wonder how anyone older than 50 has good sense.
March 12, 2009
Memories of Enterprise: Taking the love of music to extremes
Typical Baby Boomers cherish music from our formative years and are identified by tunes we heard on radio and record.
March 01, 2009
Memories of Enterprise: Misadventures starring young men in uniforms
The U.S. was at war, and as we’d learned from American patriot Thomas Paine in junior high school, “These are the times that try men’s souls…”
February 27, 2009
Memories of Enterprise: Really bad dog might not be so bad after all
We have a leash law in Enterprise now but that wasn’t always the case.
February 26, 2009
Memories of Enterprise: Tough as nails and then some
The following announcement is reprinted here exactly it arrived via an early February e-mail from Carlos Robinson:
February 23, 2009
Memories of Enterprise: A matter of perspective
It’s all in how you look at it.
February 22, 2009
Memories of Enterprise: Signs that spring is coming
“When it’s springtime in Alaska and it’s 40 below” or something like that were lyrics sung by the late, great Johnny Horton, who also sang the title tune for the John Wayne movie, “North to Alaska.”
