An evening newscast recently lifted my spirits temporarily with the announcement that a new drug for the relief of headaches, arthritis, sinusitis, and other so called minor aches and pains…
Many a mountain child has been made to feel richer than a king when on a cold Christmas Eve night he or she climbed the ladder to the attic room…
Pheasant under glass must be mighty good, and lobsters from Maine, and all of the other fancy things, but for ones most pleasing to the palate, my thoughts go back…
One of the pioneers who lived in the land that became Pulaski County, Va., was a man by the name of Asiel Snow. Coming from the northeastern part of America,…
Several years ago I wrote an article entitled, “A broken clock and a bent guardrail.” I don’t know why, but it is things like this that bother me. Maybe it’s…
I have spent a lot of time boasting about all of the American habits, traditions, and customs that I have lived to experience. One that stands out is the great…
I think it’s good to reach back into the memory bank and pull up names and events of years gone by. So many things about the past are etched so…
This great nation of ours is made up of all kinds of people. I won’t try to describe the theories, beliefs, or actions of any particular category that people fall…
Summer is almost gone. Many of the things we spent the winter and spring thinking we would do come summer remain undone. The long, long days are just not long…
From the minute a person is born, that person is reaching out. Reaching for something that is always very easy to find, but oft-times very hard to keep. As we…
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