By Doug Fincher

August 1, 1933 - September 14, 2024
Doug Fincher was a contributor to Shelby County Today
from August 2011 through August 2024.
His writings often reflected memories of life in East Texas
with family, friends, and God.

To read his obituary, click here.

“Growing the Garden” By Doug Fincher

September 28, 2020 - “In due season we’ll reap if we don’t faint….”   Gal. 6:9

It was not until Pam escorted me into Wal-Mart yesterday that I knew we were planting a garden this fall.  Suddenly she began cramming plants into the buggy …broccoli, Brussels sprouts, spinach…and mustard seed…. I should have known when she had that recent conversation with her dad about his garden, this was bound to happen! 

“Spot Didn’t Return the Third Time” By Doug Fincher

September 7, 2020 - I photographed this beautiful Painted Bunting for two consecutive years.  I named him “Spot,” and after meeting ..and feeding him…for those years in The Sand Hills of East Texas near Center, Texas, he would flutter above my head while I fed him his millet. I wrote several stories about watching him when he returned from Central America every year. But he didn’t return the third time.

“The First Time I Used A Phone” by Doug Fincher

June 15, 2020 - I was in the fourth Grade when I heard a phone ringing in Principal Oran Wheeler’s office one day. Seeing no one was around, I did something I’d never done. Since we didn’t have a phone --- and I had never used one --- I (with fear and trembling) picked it up and did what I’d seen others do. I said “Hello.” When a lady asked me to get Principal Wheeler to the phone, I was a Paul Revere racing down the hall with the good news.

“Sweetgum Tobacco and Stretchberry Gum” by Doug Fincher

June 1, 2020 - When Pam and I were discussing Sweetgum trees yesterday, I had the perfect opportunity to brag about how “pore” we were when I was a kid in Center, Texas. Back in the 30s and 40s, we couldn’t afford buying chewing gum so had to make our own. My brother Bill and I cut shallow “V” grooves in sweetgum trees, returned a few weeks later, collected the hardened resin, and chewed it.

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