Jocie Shares a Scene from Summer of Joy

Ann H GabhartHeart of Hollyhill

February 17, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky three days after Valentine’s Day. It’s been snowing and snowing. That’s given me lots of time to think about all the different kinds of love and back to some of the things that happened in those Heart of Hollyhill books I’m in.    You know it’s funny that last Hollyhill …

Mystery Flowers and Secret Admirers

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, Heart of Hollyhill

February 17, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Main Street, Hollyhill. Strange goings on in the newspaper office this week.  Valentine’s Day was last Friday. The day when everybody goes bonkers for love. At least everybody but Wes and me. He says folks are just having “heart” trouble and it’s trouble he intends to stay out of. I wouldn’t mind …

Valentines and Hearts

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire  What would life be without love? Isn’t it great that we have a day set aside to celebrate love? In of all months, February. That month of the year when those of us in the northern hemisphere are beginning to be weary of winter. The month when …

A Day for Romance

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. (Voltaire) Happy Valentine’s Day! What makes Valentine’s Day good for you? Candy? Roses? A card with loving words? Maybe sugar candy hearts with “Be Mine” on them. Seems I remember hearing that they had jazzed up and modernized the Valentine messages on candy hearts. So now the sayings on …

The First Valentine

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

Hi, everybody. Hope you’re not too stuffed with chocolate candy after Valentine’s Day yesterday. Our preacher was telling us the origin of Valentine’s Day in church today. Br. Fred says that back many moons ago, around 268 A.D. in the Roman Empire, it was decided that men should not marry before they entered the Roman army. But a priest named …