The accidental memorial: a Christmas memory

Posted by John Small | Dec 16, 2020 | Small Talk

(Editor’s Note: The following holiday-themed “Small Talk” column was originally published in 2014. It is being reprinted this week by request.) Let me admit here at the outset that this is one of those stories which most readers may decide they don't care much about one way or the other. But it never fails to […]

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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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The accidental memorial: a Christmas memory

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