Staunton Star - Times - Published in the Interest of the Staunton Community for Over 143 Years

Ode to my grandfather

I am writing because I would like to surprise my grandfather Fred Horky. He is a regular reader of your paper despite moving away years ago and living in North Carolina. He was born and raised in a house on Wood Street in Staunton.

I've grown up listening to the stories of adventures from before I came around, these stories from many different important times that gave a real perspective to events. Concordia is a fairly large social club which was directly behind the family house my great-grandfather built not long after he arrived from "the Old Country"... then part...