Scarlet roses and Creekside shadows: Leland’s history and spirit lives on in these pages
Deer Creek Roses ca. 1941, Photo courtesy of Daryl Lewis
Along the gentle curves of the creek, where scarlet roses once bloomed in quiet abundance, lies the heart of Leland—a town steeped in stories, resilience and community spirit. Though many years have passed, the echoes of its past remain vivid, woven into the fabric of everyday life.
Recently uncovered in the pages of The Leland Enterprise from 1924, a heartfelt message reminds us that this spirit isn’t just preserved in memories shared on porches or in local shops—it lives on in the hometown paper that’s chronicled our joys, milestones and challenges for over a century.
Today, The Leland Progress remains free to the public—serving as a bridge between generations, neighbors and stories. But, like those scarlet roses by the creek, this paper, too, needs nurturing. We don’t want it to fade.
If you find meaning in these pages, consider taking out an ad for your business, the city, councils, your organization, celebrating a birthday or anniversary, remembering a loved one or perhaps sponsoring a column. Your support keeps these pages turning and helps preserve something rare: a local paper that still belongs to its people.
Let’s keep Leland’s stories blooming.
The Leland Enterprise, October 1924—Not a big city daily with shrieking headlines of murder, mush, and scandal—just a reasonable, conservative little sheet that tries to give you what you want in news of your town and your friends and something of what the world is doing. That’s your hometown paper. When there’s a boost to be given for the old hometown, a friendly tap on the back of a deserving citizen, with courage to fight whenever the old hometown needs its help, clarion of our merits, defending when others run it down, the hometown newspaper is there. Your hometown paper may not be all that you expect of it, but it’s yours. Support your hometown paper, because it is supporting you to make the old hometown the finest place in the entire world to live.
