Today's Features

BRONSON — Jackie Strickland was enjoying gently rocking in the chair.

“A buddy of mine got me started 10 years ago,” he said.

“I do all the work myself. It’s all hands on by me.”

“I log my own wood, mill it and cure it out,” he says. That’s an investment of a year’s time from cutting to rocking.

Strickland obtains his wood by taking down trees for property owners. He will cut the tree and haul the wood, he says, but the owners must haul the brush left by the job.

It was an evening like every other evening last week, as Linda Scoggins set out to enjoy her time away from work.

But about 6:30, she spied a visitor jumping across her fence on property she and husband, Ron, own off Hwy. 321 in Chiefland.

A baby deer sauntered into the yard and started making herself at home-by eating her flowers.

For more that 20 minutes she watched the deer feed and frolic through binoculars, then she came right up to her and yearned for affection.

Shelton Irwin has played with and written songs for some big names in the music world.

Alabama, Johnny Nash, Bertie Higgins, Dennis Yost, Starbuck, Artimus Pyle and Bo Diddley are just a few of a diverse group of stars that Irwin has worked with in his long and storied career.

Seeing the music industry eat up a lot of his friends, Irwin chose to take the low road some 20 years ago, moving to rural Levy County to chill out, spend time with the family, collect some royalty money and play a little music.

It's worked out well in some respects.

A reception for Doris Rogers is planned for Sunday, July 20 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall of First Baptist Church of Chiefland.

She came to Chiefland in 1954 with her husband Lindsey and her two children, Carolyn Langford and Earl Rogers. She will soon be leaving the area.

During the 54 years she was a part of the community, she served a term as a city commissioner and was a member of the Planning Commission for some 27 years.