Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Heart of Hollyhill”
August 31, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky where you have to make up stories to have something happen in our little town. Well, that’s not always true. There was all that stuff that happened last year. Some of it was good. A lot of it not good at all. I’d tell you all about it but it …
August 16, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. School starts tomorrow. Dad says I should be excited. He even preached on being excited about learning on Sunday. Of course, he was talking about learning from the Bible or learning more about Jesus. Not school. Maybe I used to get excited about starting school. Back when I was just …
August 10, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Here we are about two weeks away from starting school. Scary! Summer is sliding away into the shadows. My trip with Wes last week was about the only fun thing I’ve done this summer. Well, I did finish writing Bailey’s Bug. Guess that was something. I even got it all …
August 3, 1966 Jocie Brook here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Have you ever ridden on a motorcycle? For a long trip? Your legs can go to sleep and your hair blows around if you don’t put it in a ponytail. Sometimes a bug hits your arm. I love it. I never, never thought Dad would let me take a long …
July 20, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. I’m a little itchy tonight. That’s not right. I’m a lot itchy tonight! Have you ever gone blackberry picking and come home with more chiggers than berries? I think I did this weekend. I love blackberries. They have that special tart taste like no other berry and a blackberry cobbler …
July 13, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Can you believe that there’s only about a month before school starts again? That’s just not right. Summer should last twice as long as other seasons. Each day needs to matter. Dad says I’m the one who has to make my days matter. I can’t be moping around wishing for …
CHECK OUT JOCIE’S NEW PLACE ON THE WEB Find Jocie’s Heart of Hollyhill reports every week at a new place. Click on Heart of Hollyhill under Blogs on my website homepage or go directly to Jocie’s posts with this Heart of Hollyhill blog. New place. Same Jocie. Still the Sixties.
July 5, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Wow, did you see fireworks on the 4th? Leigh talked Dad into taking us to Lexington to the drive-in to watch the fireworks. We got to see the movie too. Sound of Music. It was wonderful. I loved it even more than the fireworks which were really neat and …
June 29, 1966. Jocie Brooke here reporting from Holly County, Kentucky. Oh no!! Look what I spotted in Miss Sally’s garden. If she’s got cabbage about to start making a head, then I’m pretty sure every other member of the Mount Pleasant Church does too. That’s a BIG oh no. I hate cabbage! Who could want to eat that stuff. …
June 21, 1966 Jocie Brooke reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Oh gosh, things have been so busy around here. I thought summer was when you could lie back and be lazy. You know, once school was out. But I’ve been spinning like a crazy top trying to do everything. I helped Miss Sally plant some late garden and wash her windows. …