I have been given a wonderful book of pictures and stories of the evangelist Billy Graham. My, he was a handsome young man. His face just exuded his joy and compassion for people. He has led audience all over the world, even a huge revival in the Soviet Union. He has had interviews with every president in his time. He has been on TV many times and is well-liked by the media.

Billy’s son, Franklin is following in his father’s footsteps. Billy is now in his 90s but still is full of his message and willing to preach.

Back in the 1920s, there were revivals in almost every town. There was one in Marion, conducted by the Roses in a large tent on the Christian church yard. It was non-denominational so everyone went. Mrs. Rose had meetings with school children.

I attended a revival in El Dorado when I was a junior high student. We lived there, then. My sister, Faith and I and lots of other school children went forward when the minister made a call. It was a serious decision.

When you are told in the Bible to be fishers of men a Maine fisherman carried out that idea by pulling in a drowning man with his rod and reel.

Have you heard that in a spa they are now putting the feet of the patients in water where small carp swim and nibble the dry skin off their feet? Wouldn’t that tickle? What are those creatures called that some doctors put on patients to suck the blood from an infected spot? I pulled too many of those off my legs when wading in the river, so excuse me.

— NORMA HANNAFORD