I guess that I knew Zella Armstrong from the day I was born until she died. I have read almost everything she wrote.
My grandfather was the emcee of the Cotton Ball until he died. I was a printer’s devil at the Hamilton County Herald, and she would walk into there virtually two days a week.
She was always walking and I wonder if she ever took a bus. It is a long walk from where she lived to Patten Parkway.
She wrote one book that teed quite a few people in Chattanooga. I mentioned ... more