May 17, 2012, The Spring Hill Informer

     Fox Ridge recently bought the 20 or so remaining lots to build out the Campbell Station subdivision. Fox Ridge has completed one home already. The subdivision sat idle for a few years when the previous owner suffered financial woes.

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     If you missed it when it came out in 1992, a nice summer read for local historians or Civil War buffs is Wiley Sword's Embrace an Angry Wind: The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville. Published by HarperCollins it is a hefty 499 pages and offers fascinating accounts of the private lives of the men who battled and the women they loved (I'm sounding like an old Cecil B. DeMille promo writer). Especially intriguing is Sword's depiction of Confederate leader John Bell Hood, the general who, among other footnotes in the bloody history of our internal war, lost his left arm and right leg in vicious Gettysburg and Chickamauga bloodbaths. He's better known not for his limb losses but for not losing any sleep on a fateful Spring Hill night.
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     Fifty-two humans were in line Saturday, April 28, before the Spring Hill Public Library opened its doors at 9 a.m., for the Friends of the Library book sale. That was just the count for the east side of the building. A similar count likely could have been taken for the west entrance. Library workers said it was nothing but a typical turnout for the regular FOL book sales. Friend Beth Cottrell said, "From the book sales, we have been able to buy $46,000 worth of things for the library in the past six years."

     Book-'em Beth-O.

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   An Associated Press Newsfeatures Photo was sent out to service subscribers to run June 8, 1986, along with a story by AP writer Jennifer Johnston. Slugged "Saturn City," the photo was an aerial shot of the old Haynes Haven farm, the "site where the $3.5 billion complex of Saturn Corp., the General Motors subsidiary, is being built. The mansion is being saved."

     The mansion in 2012 is still with, but, alas, poor Saturn.

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     Culture shock. That's a phrase regularly heard from those after moving here from regions elsewhere. The talk is usually about language and customs. For me it was the discovery of the huge fireworks warehouses open for business all through the year. These folks must really be lacking for entertainment. Last week I  found a spent Black Cat brand Exploding Comet Rocket in my yard next to my house. It could have landed on my roof just as easily. Spring Hill is too lax regarding its fireworks laws, and too many days are allowed for their usage. There was no recent holiday I am aware to explain a rocket being shot in my yard. Unless someone decided Earth Day on April 22 was time for a bang-up celebration. That would be ironic. Spring Hill's former public Independence Day fireworks display was cancelled back in 2009 when the Franklin radio station that put on the event could not raise the $20,000-plus deemed necessary for the show. I say ban fireworks in the city and allow only a city-backed event. My house sides with me on this one. I'm betting yours does as well.