The Madisonville baseball team returned to the field Tuesday after a hiatus due to the winter storm to host Malakoff in their season opener after just a pair of scrimmages. The Mustangs will host a tournament at MHS beginning Thursday and compete against Fairfield (9 a.m.), Woodville (5 p.m.) and La Grange ( 7 p.m.) on the first day.

This is the first, in what will hopefully be a long series of articles, about the reclamation and preservation of the many cemeteries in Madison County. The main purpose of this effort is to protect and preserve the final resting places of all our family and friends, regardless of color or creed.

Weather has been a popular topic of conversation for the last two weeks and was on my mind when I sought a Musings topic. Currently Volume 1 of Madison County history is not available for purchase, but we are working to convert it into a searchable computer document that will later be available for purchase on a USB flash drive, or, for you non-techies, an inexpensive computer plug-in device. I took advantage of what we have so far and searched “weather”. I’m sharing some of what I found.

Last week was miserable with single digit temperatures, snow, inches of ice, loss of electricity and then loss of water. On the surface it was just a distressing, depressing, memory maker.