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(Editor’s Note: Atlanta historian Dr. Dan Wimberly wanted to find out more about the Sulphur Fork Factory located near the fork of the Sulphur and Red Rivers, 1817-25. Here are some of the highlights of his findings.)

Sometimes life comes full circle and that sure is the case for Linden-Kildare’s new Athletic Director Dillon Surratt.

My father, Richard Eldred Blalock, was named for his grandfathers but was called “Dred”, by all and sundry even as his grandfather was. I am the older of his two children, and the nearest they could get to “Dred” for a girl was “Mildred”, my younger brother later being called “Arden”. I had a lot of fun when I was a kid when asked by other youngsters what my father’s real name was. I always answered “Mildred” of course”. Since his initials of R.E. refuted that statement, it should not have carried any weight but kids don’t think very far and I had my laugh.