SUNBONNET SOLILOQUIES by Jewell Ellen Smith

Mrs. Smith briefly wrote a column for the Enterprise Ledger entitled "Sunbonnet Soliloquy." For 17 years, beggining in November 1972, this column appeared in the HEDGEHOPPER. The now-defunct HEDGEHOPPER was published monthly by The Officers’ Wives’ Club (OWC) of Fort Rucker, Alabama. The following appeared at the begnning of her first column:

Editor’s note: Jewell Ellen Smith, a member of OWC, is the wife of LTC (Ret.) William H. Smith. At their country home north of Enterprise, Ala., she spends her spare time writing a newspaper column, the Good Friday Biblical plays presented each year at Ft. Rucker, and other things. Her first novel is to be published next spring. Mrs. Smith will do a series of short articles for the HEDGEHOPPER so that, to use her words, "younger Army wives may benefit from my trial-and-error experiences."

Here is a selection of her columns, roughly in reverse chronological order. The article titles were chosen by Mrs. Smith but did not originally appear in the published columns. All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible, and notes by David Smith, the present editor, appear (in parentheses and italicized).