It is not uncommon for those of us who have lived for over half a century to nostalgicize a Mom’s-apple-pie-in-the-sky America of the late Fifties and early Sixties that was kinder and gentler than it…
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The new season opened last Friday evening with a return match against Drew High School of San Francisco who had visited Boonville this time last year when the home team Panthers managed to secure a…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I have been very remiss of late and failed to mention the August birthdays of the following seniors, many of whom are…
I met Elaine at her home on Gschwend Road a couple of miles back beyond the Christine Woods region. I was greeted by the 14-year old Chocolate Lab, Pepper, and 7-year old McNab Mix, Ziggy,…
The heat of last week seemed like a good reason to stay inside and sort through junk. Amongst the piles of stuff, most of which ended up in the dumpster, I found a treasure, a…
The drive from Ithaca, New York, at the southern end of Lake Cayuga to the old-and-new money town of Skaneateles at the northern end of Skaneateles Lakes takes a little less than an hour, but…
If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it; If I be in it, I pray God keep me so. — Jean D’Arc Various accounts of the life…
For weather fans, this summer the globe over seems to be one to remember. I'm never quite sure, though, reading about monsoon floods in Iowa or Asia whether the catastrophes are that far out of…
I have been at a loss as to how to go from a post about death to justabout anything else. Suffice to say my dear friend is no longer using her hospital bed. She went…