(Excerpted from the original, which can be found at Buck’s Store Museum in Bena.)
Come walk with me down Memory Lane. The road is wide and well paved. We have walked this road many times before. Just over here to the left is the “Guinea Road.” Did you know or do you remember when…
The Guinea Road was blacktopped in the thirties.
The electric line came to Guinea in the thirties.
The Achilles High School and Grade School was dedicated on November 14, 1924.
Sterling Rowe, Jese Thomas, and William Shackelford, our grandparents, were all merchants.
Grandpa Sterling Rowe’s schooner, the “Seven Brothers,” was captured by the Yankees during the Civil War.
Elmer Robins and Mr. Bob Rowe were barbers at Achilles in the thirties, and haircuts were 25 cents.
Bena Post Office was named for a lady.
Mama used to buy kale from Mrs. Fanny Smith for fifteen cents a mess.
Preacher Andrew Williams used to run Bob King’s Store and deliver groceries all over Guinea.
Our third great-grandfather, Aaron Belvin,...