On December 20th, 2023, the South Highlands Middle School Boys basketball team won the consolation bracket championship game to take 3rd place in the tournament in Eufaula! Congratulations Hornets! (Photo from Facebook)
January 2024
The story of the southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas as the first meal on New Year's Day is generally believed to date back to the winter of 1864 - 1865.
When Union General William T. Sherman led his invading troops on their destructive march through Georgia, the fields of black-eyed peas were largely left untouched because they were deemed fit only for animals.
The Union foragers took everything, plundered the land, and left what they could not take, burning or in shambles.
By Gerald Hodges