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March 31, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky where not much happens in March. That’s for sure. But it is spring and Miss Sally’s chickens are getting cute little feathers and it’s warm enough for me to ride my bicycle or go roller skating. But roller skating is more fun when somebody is roller skating with you and …
Jocie Reporting from Hollyhill – the News of Christmas I love it when I get a new notebook for Christmas. All those blank pages just waiting for me to fill them with words. My favorite thing to do. But right now I don’t know where to start. So many good things to write about. So many Christmas blessings. But I’ll …
Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. I love words. I like the way they sound. Words like tinkle, slither, clap, pop, sizzle, squeak. Did you know they are actually called something that doesn’t sound like what it is at all? Or maybe it does and I just don’t know how to pronounce it. Onomatopoeia. That’s one hard word to …
(NOTE TO READER: Jocie Brooke is the young teen character in my Heart of Hollyhill books, Scent of Lilacs, Orchard of Hope and Summer of Joy. She loves writing articles for her father’s smalltown newspaper. Well, she just loves writing anything. So sometimes she takes up pen and paper to write down some reports for her Hollyhill Book of the Strange she’s been …
November 23, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky on the day before Thanksgiving. Don’t you just love Thanksgiving? I do. And it’s going to be especially good this year because everybody’s coming to Miss Sally’s for dinner. Miss Sally is the best cook ever. People nearly come to blows over the last pieces of her cherry pies at …
Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky Wow, somebody interviewed Dad to find out more about what he believes after those Heart of Hollyhill books about us came out. Do you think we’re famous now? Dad would say I was thinking wrong. That I shouldn’t be thinking about being famous but about our story maybe helping other people. He’s right. …
December 21, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Christmas is almost here, and I don’t know about you, but I can hardly wait. I love Christmas. So many fun things happening, not to mention not having to go to school for almost two weeks! Since I had some time on my hand and I love Christmas, I asked …
Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill: Can you believe that somebody wanted to interview me? Me? I’m all the time interviewing other people around in Hollyhill for the paper, but I never expected anyone to want to interview me. And not for the Hollyhill Banner, but for some other magazine or something. Wes says I must be famous, and …
Christmas Week 1965 Jocie Brook here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Christmas is almost here. I don’t see how Christmas 1965 can top Christmas 1964, but maybe it will. I guess I’ll have to wait and see. You can read all about that Christmas 1964 and more in the book Summer of Joy. I know, it seems a little weird to have …
June 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill. It’s been a while since I’ve had time to do any extra reporting. Oh, I’ve still been helping Dad with stories in the paper. Nothing too exciting. This is Hollyhill, you know. About the most exciting story for months was old Mrs. Jennings turning 100. One hundred years. That means she was …