(Excerpt from the original, which can be found at the Buck’s Store Museum in Ben.)

Come with me down Memory Lane. The road is wide and well paved. We’ve walked this road many times before. Here, on the left, is the “Guinea Road”. Do you know or remember when…

In the thirties, the Guinea Road was paved.

The electric line came to Guinea in the thirties.

Achilles High School and Primary School were opened on November 14, 1924.

Sterling Rowe, Jese Thomas and William Shackelford, our grandparents, were traders.

Sterling Rowe’s grandfather’s schooner, the Seven Brothers, was captured by the Yankees during the Civil War.

Elmer Robins and Mr. Bob Rowe were barbers at Achilles in the thirties, and a haircut cost 25 cents.

The Bena post office was named after the woman.

Mom bought cabbage from Mrs. Fanny Smith for fifteen cents a portion.

Preacher Andrew Williams ran Bob King’s store and delivered groceries throughout Guinea.

Our third…

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