Opinion: Blue-ribbon service brings customers back over and over

  • During World War II, my mother’s parents operated the country store on Coca-Cola president Robert W. Woodruff’s Ichauway Plantation in Baker County. My dad hitchhiked back from the war and married Marjorie Vines in the house connected to the store. For old times’ sake, I wanted a Coke sign for my personal library in one of our barns in the Smithonia community. (Photo submitted by Dink NeSmith)
    During World War II, my mother’s parents operated the country store on Coca-Cola president Robert W. Woodruff’s Ichauway Plantation in Baker County. My dad hitchhiked back from the war and married Marjorie Vines in the house connected to the store. For old times’ sake, I wanted a Coke sign for my personal library in one of our barns in the Smithonia community. (Photo submitted by Dink NeSmith)

    As the old saying goes, “You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.” But I think that’s what happened when I stepped out of my muddy truck. And my farmhand attire matched the dented 2004 GMC Sierra. Tho…