Charles Martin:  

Life Just like a few of us did, I hung around Quitman for a few years. In May of 1989, I moved to Sulphur Springs where I worked as a form carpenter on the Cooper Lake Project for a year and a half. I then went into the dairy business with a friend near the Oklahoma line just long enough to realize that it wasn't for me. I moved to Louisiana for a year where I worked as a form carpenter and carpenter superintendent building a water treatment plant, a bridge, and several box culvert upgrades along I-20 near Monroe. While attending a bbq and beer bust in my hometown of Minden, La., I broke my foot in a drunken game of volleyball. I hung out at David Bailey's to recupperate, and decided to move back and begin anew in a cabinet shop in Alba. A couple of years later I took a job as a bouncer and DJ at East Fork, where on the same night of our ten year reunion I met the love of my life. Had I attended our class reunion, Becky and I would have never met. We were married four months later, and have been married ever since. We have two beautiful children-a daughter, Lila, who just turned 4 in April, and a son, Kordell, who will be 3 in November. This September will mark our 8th anniversary. The shop in Alba I worked for had relocated to Emory in 1992, and I took over as plant manager in 1998, having left the nightclub far behind. After three years as plant manager, increasing production by nearly 50%, I found I could not excel any further in the family owned company I worked for. Ending a 9 1/2 year run, I now work in Sulphur Springs for Hopco, where I run the specialty millwork division, in charge of the historical restoration of the Hopkins County Cou...Expand for more