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I wrote various columns in the Forsyth newspapers for about seven or eight years. Starting in the late '70s, I wrote a music column in the Forsyth Independent. It lasted a couple of years before I ran out of steam with it. My next foray into print was a column called "View from Up Here," which was published in The Enterprise News, a free newspaper, starting in around 1983. The column's title came from a picture of me looking out from one of the upstairs windows at the Roxy. Eventually the owners of
The Enterprise
News bought the Forsyth Independent, and merged the papers into
"The Independent-Enterprise." My column was retitled
"The View From Here," which I thought sounded a little
less pretentious. That title has since been stolen by about a
thousand other papers and columnists over the years, but I have
not initiated any lawsuits yet...that's just the sort of kindhearted
guy I am. The column ran for a few more years before politics,
censorship and (occasionally) a lack of ideas silenced my byline. Since then I've kept up writing, and I've got a few unpublished columns saved up. I'll put them into these pages when time permits, and will probably spew some new stuff too...which should be easy, because since the "View" column ended, I've gotten married, so I've got all kinds of new stories to tell. This area will also contain some of my favorite "View from Here" columns. I'll try to embellish them with appropriate pictures when possible. The whole thing should be fun. I'm looking forward to traveling down memory lane, and maybe thinking up a few new stories along the way. -- Mike Blakesley |
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Welcome to the "Blakes" area of the
Roxy website. This is where you'll find all my personal ramblings and
newspaper articles that are not related to the Roxy.
If you're looking for movie info, this is not the place...although
you may eventually find some articles about matinees and such.
