Sorry I missed the 1-year anniversary date of the Haigler Blog. I was browsing through the Blog and saw the post of how the Blog was started. I went all the way back to the beginning to find your very first post. May 20th. 2006. That was the earliest posting I could find, Is that right? Also it looks like the first Blog entry from someone other than you or your staff was by Don Harford / Haigler in the 1920's ---- Written 8 - 24 - 2006... If I were a betting man I would of said Dallas was the first one to get his story published! hehehe! (just kidding) Don had wonderful memories of Haigler and I enjoyed reading it again. August 30th 2006 was the post that we all now can thank you for. This was the invitation to contribute to the site our pictures, our stories, and our memories of Haigler and it's Residents. Thank You Sherri so very much. You've done such a great job with this Blog Site. Thanks to everybody involved for all their contributions and Thank You again for sharing such a w onderful place we can visit and enjoy all those memories. You've given us all a little piece of ownership to a place that feels like Home "The Haigler Blog".
-- Yours Truly, Larry Wall
Thanks, Larry, for the note about the anniversary of the blog. I guess I let it go by without a word!!
ReplyDeleteThe actual very first post on the Blog was Don Harford's article which was posted on August 29, 2006.
The earlier posts were pre-dated in order to "hide" them on the "bottom" of the list.
The idea for the blog actually came about because Floy Ruggles had asked Haigler residents for Memories to be published in the "Haigler Happenings" column in the local papers. There often was not enough room to publish the stories, so the blog idea was born from a conversation with Floy. It grew from there.