July 4 A Celebration Of Words – But, Oh, What Words!

Posted by John Small | Jun 27, 2018 | Small Talk

(Editor’s Note: The following holiday-themed column originally appeared in the July 2, 2015, edition of the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. It is being re-published in observance of this year’s Independence Day celebration.) Shhh... Listen close. Can you hear them? Wafting over the American landscape like an echo, ghostly voices urging us to remember who we are […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

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July 4 A Celebration Of Words – But, Oh, What Words!

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