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A Columbia County Boy's Recollections and Memories of Columbia County Florida (2012) Lenvil H. Dicks

JUST PLAIN FRIENDS

As each ofus go through life, we seem to pick up friendships with certain people, without any studied
design or intent to do so, but you just end up with a few friends that come to mind every time you think
of a friend.

For purposes of keeping this book not too long, I want to briefly mention four people who have been
life-long friends, and four guys that 1 am still close to, to this day except in the case of one of them who
has passed away.

These four guys are Glenn Jones, Mike Kennon, Morris Williams, and Bascom Norris, who passed away
with a heart attack several years ago.

In the case of Glenn Jones, both his dad’s farm and my dad’s farm almost joined, as there was a man
named Clarence Southwell who owned 80 acres between my dad’s farm and the Jones’ farm, and
therefore we did not live too far apart. When we were growing up of course all of the roads were just old
sand roads, and we did not let that stop us from visiting back and forth.

Glenn was one year ahead of me in school, and he had his first school days at Mason, south of Lake
City, where he was a member of the band that Mr. Carl Roberts conducted 2 days a week while he had
the Columbia High School Band, and Glenn took up the trombone. Then when he started going to
Columbia High, by that time I had gone from baritone horn, to e flat alto horn, and finally to trumpet,
and we found ourselves playing in the band together. Many times I would go to his house and we would
play duets together, or he would come down to the John Dicks’ place and we would play duets together.

In addition we went on many a picnic to the various springs in the south end of Columbia County, and
the north end of Alachua County, to go swimming. Also there was what in those days we called a “wash
hole” about a mile east of Mr. Les Woods’ house between Glenn’s home and Providence, and that wash
hole was known as the Adam’s wash hole. Why, I do not know. It was a part of Olustee Creek, and at
one time there was a bridge across the creek at that point, which went on over into Union County, but at
the time we used to go swimming there, there was no bridge there anymore. Sometimes we would ride
our mules down there to go swimming, and on a few occasions Mr. Jones would let Glenn have the car
on a Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon, to go swimming.

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