By Elizabeth Smith. Originally published in the November 1963 issue of the Magnolia Monthly.

The most colorful, as well as the most despised, era of Wakulla county’s past was the days of Reconstruction following the Civil War, from 1866 to 1870. H. Clay Crawford’s account of this time when scalawags and carpetbaggers from the North administered the affairs of the county, goes as follows:

By SLIM RANDLES

“Mavis, dear, is that coffee HOT this morning?”
“Sure is, Windy.”
“Well then, slaver a bunch of it in a cup and flop it down here in front of a freezin’ guy, would you? Thanks, Hon.”
“Freezing, Windy?”
“Ain’t the first time, Doc, but they never seem any easier as I get older.”
“You want to come in for a checkup later?”

By AL HARTMAN
The Old Pro

Hope you all are doing well. Boy, time just seems to be on wings.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Federal fishery has opened recreational Red Snapper season, weekends only, Sept. 1 and runs until Nov. 30.
They also opened Snook season starting Sept. 1 and closes Nov. 30.