Getting Started

I have resisted this as long as I could. A couple of weeks ago, David Hoggard called me on the phone and on one of those rare ocassions when I answer my home phone, we spoke about me starting a blog.

I explained to him at the time that I was a little afraid of the amount of work and attention that needed to be paid to blogging to do it effectively, but he insisted that he thought I had some things worth saying and volunteered to set it up for me. Needless to say, I didn't stop thinking about what had suggested.

I recently returned from Mississippi with a lot of stuff that I need to share with people here. I had gone to speak at the 41st memorial service for the deaths of the three civil rights workers -- Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman -- in Neshoba County back in 1964. There is much more to write about that and how it relates to this community -- its history and its future -- than I can possibly put in my bi-weekly newspaper columns or talk about on my radio talk show.

My talk show co-host insisted recently like Hoggard that I had things that I had a responsibility to share and that setting up a blog would be easy. I finally relented. Here it is. The thanks and the blame go to David Hoggard and Joya Wesley although the content will be mine. I hope that the readers who stumble across these musings will gain something from them and hopefully join in an expanding dialog that promises to enrich us all.

Here we go....

Ed