The Posey County News

The first Olympic Games were held at Olympia, Greece in 776 BC. They were held at Olympia because they were a paean to Zeus who supposedly presided there. The games were designed to be held every four years until the Roman Emperor Theodosius the Great ordered them stopped because his Christian sensibilities were offended by the worship of Zeus. Theodosius was born in 347 AD and ruled from 379 AD until his death in 395. Rome had finally conquered the Achaean League (Greece) in

Several years ago (several) a movie was released about a beauty pageant (scholarship opportunity) with some sketchy promoters. During the question and answer portion of the pageant one of the contestants was asked to describe “the perfect date.” She answered “…April 25, because it’s not too hot and not too cold.” While she wasn’t wrong (April can be amazing), she was embarrassed to realize the question was really asking about the activities that might be taken on that perfect

A birthday post. My mentor Lee Roy’s birthday was Feb 19th, the day after mine. We always celebrated together on the evening of one of them with a game of dominoes with some type of sweet dessert. I remember one particular year my birthday fell on Presidents’ Day and I was outta school. I went to Lee Roy’s to work for the day, because whenever I wasn’t in school I wanted to work to earn lunch money or whatever. It was a cold morning and I was gonna ride a breaking plow for th