When times were gentler-----A Trip Back to the Fifties - Intellectual Takeout

Please hop into my time machine, and I’ll give you a short tour of Boonville, North Carolina in the summer of 1959, before bringing you back to the present day. - Jeff Minick 

Strolling around this small hamlet of 600, note the town’s most historic building, the old brick bank founded long ago by Mr. Shore. 

• Take in the two barber shops, Donald’s and Finney’s, the beauty parlor, 
• Harvey Smith’s grocery store, and 
• Grady’s Café. 
• The movie theater is showing Rio Bravo starring John Wayne, 
• the Methodist and Baptist churches stand waiting for congregants, and
• the Boonville school with its attendant baseball diamond is often filled with the voices of noisy children...