Everybody in
Holcomb had fish stories, including Ruth and William Holcomb, who show off a catch at Dan
Blue's home on Black Hawk Lake in the late 1940s.
Chick Cresswell
(left) and Dot Hayden show off a fine catch.
Mary McRee
(left) and Helen Gibson went after catfish.
Fulton McRee
(right) does the dirty work of cleaning huge buffalo fish on the porch of his Main Street
store.
Recollections of
Fulton McRee invariably include "Fulton was just a lot of fun." He's shown
here in 1941.
Long, flat boats
were perfect for fishing on the lakes edged with cypresses in 1945.
Fulton McRee
wasn't the only one smiling as he reads headlines announcing the end of World War II.
Miss Sally
Workman was the beloved teacher of generations of second-graders.
Jimmie Hill
(left) and Kathleen Oakley ran the school lunch room in the 1950s.
In 1945, Katie
McRee (far left), Mary Alice McRee (above left) and Bernice Curry pose for photos on a
picnic outing. Mrs. Curry also taught third grade.
Karen Holcomb
and Charlie Morrow consider leaving home in 1958.
Andrew Jackson Curry (left)
and Jack Hey Curry ran the drug store in what was later Gibson's Drug Store and then the
post office.
In 1950, Pat
Holcomb and Benny Rose put their toys on parade.
