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SHREVEPORT, LA – Shreve Memorial Library virtual programming is getting a little spooky this October. Just in time for Halloween, Shreve Memorial Library and paranormal investigator, Dustin Pari, will host Halloween: A Haunted History on Friday, October 16. The interactive, virtual lecture will be held via Zoom, and registration is required to attend.

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I write today to address fans of a Covid-19 fashion trend: the mask mustache and mask goatee.

Where does it all come from?

I recall or “recollect” my growing up years in rural Greenwood. In the late summer(s) and early fall(s), my cousins and I would play in the woods near our homes. Various wild fruits and berries, I think that’s what these were would fall from the trees and shrubs to the ground. We knew from experience which ones to eat. Some of these could be classified as delicacies. First bites were often the best bites! The sweet taste and “juicy juice” of some of these fruits and berries satisfied our palates.

Riding in the backseat of my parents Pontiac on a newly built I-20 through Bossier City for the first time, talk turned to interstates and the future of cities. This was between the time that Mr. Shreveport, James Gardner, had been elected mayor of Shreveport at 30 years old in 1954, and later elected the first Shreveport councilman from District B under the new mayor-council form of government here in 1978.

By JOHN E. SETTLE JR. Editor / Publisher

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