A passion for learning and love for her childhood church, local history, and people, led Joyce Milford Hutchins to research, transcribe, and record this history of Hightower Baptist Church. She is the daughter of devoted Hightower members Robert and Cleo Milford, who were the inspiration for her dedication in researching and writing this collection, her first book. A Cherokee County native, she is a graduate of Young Harris College, The Universities of Georgia, West Georgia and Alabama. She has used her studies for teaching health and physical education in the Cherokee County School District (retired), as well as life lessons in being a devoted wife, mother, grandmother to her family and a friend and neighbor to all whom she has come in contact. Joyce currently resides with her husband in Kennesaw, Georgia and enjoys sports, playing music, reading, and planning for life’s adventures to come.
Many have heard of the Old Spanish Trail, but have misleading ideas of its use and course. Robert Hurst takes the reader on a 465 mile journey through the eyes of early Spaniards and others across the marshes, swamps, rivers, natural bridges, and highlands of Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola.
Somewhere on the border between reality and fantasy lies the land of “What Ifs.” A little boy wakes from a busy dream to discover something has changed in his safe, familiar bedroom. A horn that looks exactly like the ones in the pattern of his bedspread is lying on the rug beside his bed. “What if,” he thinks, the cotton soldiers on his bedspread came alive and left it behind? A child’s fantasy. Or is it?
