Around the banks

I vividly remember several of the daily routines and happenings that transpired at my paternal Grandma's house on Mill Street in White Springs. I vividly remember one: Each morning, about 10 a.m., maybe a bit earlier, we would see all 89 pounds of Cousin Texie Bullard Greene, who lived around the corner on Kendrick Street in what is today Mrs. Kendrick's Cottage – owned by Scott and Julie Williams-Gay – walking ramrod straight coming to Grandma's house. Grandma would put on a fresh pot of coffee and get ready for Cousin Texie's visit. Both ladies were in their 70's, and they seemed to have a never-ending supply of family stories and history, how "so and so" was related to "so and so,"