Taffy Lewis

Taffy Lewis was fortunate enough to grow up in one of the two places in the country where tennis was popular—Florida and Southern California. Her father started her in tennis at age seven when he was teaching a beginner class at their church’s annual family camp near Big Bear, California. Knowing how heavy wooden racquets were back then, he taught the children a backhand that was a modified version of the two-handed backhand that would become popular fifteen years later.

Article by Taffy Lewis Photography by Joe Morris and Provided Originally published in St George City Lifestyle Did you know that the first tennis ball was stuffed with feathers and wrapped in animal and human hair? Around the 12th century, France was playing a form of handball called "jeu de paume," or "game of the palm," which later allowed the option of playing with a bat or paddle.

Someone seems to have hit the emergency button at the Fed, as even though the central bank said that everything was just fine with the American economy just a few weeks and months ago, the situation has currently escalated into a full-blown panic mode. On Thursday, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve has called an ‘emergency’ meeting for Monday, April 11. That by itself is already very surprising, but a lot can be explained after looking at the most recent publication of the Atlanta Fed.