Category: Davie Diaries

In 1980, my dad became ill with a rare disease called polymyositis.  He was very weak and was… Read More

When I was a little girl, one of the big events of the summer was my dad’s family… Read More

Since I love history and genealogy, I decided to try to find out how many of my eight… Read More

It all began many years ago when my grandmother, Blanche Dwiggins Smith, gave me a daguerreotype of one… Read More

I had heard from my grandmother Smith that her great-grandfather, Daniel Dwiggins (1779-1856), was a circuit-riding Methodist preacher,… Read More

I had heard from my grandmother, Blanche Dwiggins Smith, that her great-great-grandfather, Daniel Dwiggins, was a circuit-riding Methodist… Read More

Before the days of large numbers of churches in the Piedmont section of North Carolina, the tradition of… Read More

In 1998, after having lived in Garden Valley for a long time and realizing that we wouldn’t always… Read More

When I was growing up on Church Street several decades ago, life was very different than it is… Read More

Although I knew all the neighbors at least by sight, only a few of them were close friends… Read More