Church Romance: Valentine's Day Love Stories Romance is still alive and well and here are the stories to prove it
By:CHERRY WAGSTAFF Living Reporter Are you ready for this thing called love?Ok, so it never seems to happen the way it does on the silver screen. But take heart. If our readers are an accurate indicator, romance is still alive and well.We asked readers to tell us their love stories and more than 40 letters arrived, filled with touching tales of love.While more women were eager to talk from the heart, the men who did reply spent a great deal of time on their romantic stories....
Church Romance: Musical chapter and verse,
Thomas Hardy
The only poet to rival Shakespeare in the subtle and extensive use of musical metaphor is Thomas Hardy. To read through his more than 900 poemsa magnificent imaginative journey upon which, I hope, every English literature student has been sent as the 150th anniversary of Hardy's birth approachesis not only to sample the petrifying darkness of Victorian pessimism at its most undiluted.The reader also enters into a folk-music world drawn in such intimate detail that he or she...
Church Romance: OBITUARIES
Claud L. Berry TAMPA, Fla. - Claud Leonard Berry, 88, of Tampa, formerly of South Charleston, W.Va., died Monday, April, 8, 1996, in South Florida Baptist Hospital, Plant City, Fla., after a long illness.He was a native of Danville, W.Va., and an 11-year resident of Tampa.He was a retired power plant operator from FMC, South Charleston, with 36 years of service.Surviving: sons, James L. of Tampa, Robert G. of Orlando; stepson, Robert Dennison of Phoenix, Ariz.; adopted son, David...
Church Romance: Return to Orangewood
AS a 9-year-old growing up in Paterson, I plotted a cozy future of writing best-selling novels. Staring from the highest point of Eastside Park, I studied the Manhattan skyline. I wondered which buildings housed authors, editors and those all-important publishers who determined which books saw print. I didn't know then that fiction often follows fashion, and that all those editors were looking not only for talent, but also for a fresh idea that would sell. I stubbornly wrote...
Church Romance: Friends call her tenacious.
Others call her domineering and manipulative. Polk County authorities call her a killer.She pleaded innocent last week and now waits in jail for a murder trial that might begin in February. In the meantime, a picture is coming into focus, revealing The surreal life of Bimla Boyd Story by Alan Gustafson - Statesman Journal Born and raised in the Fiji Islands, she came to the United States more than 20 years ago, a divorced young mother determined to...