This old house: Older is better
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Union Square News
Ruby Johnson
I have always believed and said that old antique things are the best, even old people (smile). These young people better get with it. They want all these new fancy things, clothes, cars, jewelry, young blood, etc., but these things fall apart easily, and the young blood starts looking old.
Growing up living in an old, big, wooden house made me have many negative ideas and thoughts until I learned better. I had a Christian mother who was truly a woman of faith, and she taught me and my siblings to think positively, see the good in things, trust God, and always do the right thing.
As a young girl I wondered what the right thing was, thirsty for knowledge. I feel there was always more to learn, and sure enough at my age now, 75 years and more, I have learned so much about many different things.
I learned something new a few days ago. I received a phone call from a person, Jerry McEwen, whom I grew up with and have not seen or heard from since I was a young teenager. He lives out of town, but he reads “The Coosa County News” every week and read something that I had written about Sears Chapel Church and was amazed to know who I was.
I was born and grew up in an old wood house behind Sears Chapel that his parents, Herschel McEwen Sr. and Virginia McEwen owned, with a pond and an apple orchard, which we had the freedom to fish and pick apples. That’s where I learned to fish and can apples as a little girl.
Now this old house belongs to the McEwens’ grandson, Scott McEwen, Jerry’s son, and he now uses it as a hunting club. These antlers were mounted from a piece of wood off the front door of that old house I first lived in by Scott McEwen.
My godparents, Alex and Essie Riggins, and family were our neighbors, and we all were family, so bonded together. We didn’t need a phone. All we had to do was stand on the porch and call each other’s name, “Come and let’s play ball, go fishing.”
Those were the best days, as well as old wood is the best wood.
Thank you, Jerry and Scott, for that great information, and we are praying for you, Jerry, and Lydia Waters.
“Rich or poor, powerful or vulnerable – we all get a front row seat to the master’s heavenly artwork.”
“True wisdom is knowing that you don’t know everything, but you know the one who does.”
Call Ruby at 256-935-1330 to spread your good news.
These mounted antlers are on a piece of the wood from the front door of the old house I grew up in.
This picture was taken in the early 50s, and the piece of the old wood where the antlers are mounted in 2025, 70-some years later, and the wood is still strong.
