Know Your Spotsy?

And then there’s the other side of the conversation that begs to be proven wrong, with the TRUTH being the only thing that separates one from the other. This is often times cited as one of the reasons why the “chicken crossed the road.” Been there, done that.

chicken crossing the road what the….. ????

Come on Marty – if you want to play in Spotsy – you got to know Spotsy!

BTW – I could have SWORN that Leggett was one of the very first Mall tenants.

Here’s a question.

Where were the ORIGINAL Sears and Leggett located? Be specific as to street.

I got them all right!!!

The original Sears was located in Chicago on Homan Avenue and Arthington Street (says wikipedia).

I would like to know if anyone can name at least 2 different stores that use to be where Tractor Supply is now. Where Tippy Tacos use to be? Where and how many Spotsylvania High School buildings and where they use to be and what are they now? First graduating class of Spotsy High and what was are names of 2 other high schools before the orginal Spotsy High? The list can can go on a on and I’m only 26 and know alot about this county because it’s all I know. My family has lived here back before the 1900′s in this county. Keep the trivia coming.

Larry: I didn’t join or address the trivia part of Ms. Umbles remarks. But, you already knew that. My focus and remark were centered on her initial WARNING that we ALL be careful how far we can go with our comments and communications, BEFORE WE CROSS THE ROAD, but you already knew that too.

While trivia contest may draw a larger entertainment audience, and serve as a journalist’s efforts for distraction, my recorded history in Spotsylvania County is best served cold, and without fanfare, or did you not already know that as well?

Within the framework of knowing where Sears and Leggetts once were or still are, doesn’t peak my curiosity.

How Spotsy governs itself and its citizens is what fills my plate and your plate too. So, why has this blog site turned from reporting what Spotstlvania Government is bringing to the table for public consumption and reduced it to a triva contest and a Crimes report that’s published, scanned and downloaded by FLS as a FILL item and not what Spotsylvania County and its elected officials are doing to conduct business in its citizens best interest? Or, is that another triva question that no one has an answer to or for?

How many more doors do we need to close on the public, while entertaining them with pieces of history, long forgotten, along with the addresses, as WE move into the 21st Century? While I remain cautiously optomistic I still have reservations. What part of the past 5 years have you forgotten?

The Tractor Supply use to house at 1 point the Lowes and Nichols when it was Nichols they would have big easter egg hunts where my dad would help me when I was little. The Marshall Center is the Orginal Spotsy High with the first graduating class in 1940-1941, then later on built the one across the street and moved in. Then finally they build Spotsy out in Post Oak with the 1st graduating class of 1994 those students went half a year at one school and finished up the rest at the new. Interesting enough before the 1940′s we had a Chancellor High School (In which my great aunts and uncles attended and they just did away with it) and also a Robert E Lee High School as well way back in the day).

The closest I can get to Robert E. Lee is sharing the same birth date.