Tonight, my friend and her kiddos came over. My house was a wreck, there were fish crackers on the floor and my dishes weren’t done. But, yet we still managed to have a meal and catch up on what’s been going on. It wasn’t fancy, and Good Housekeeping magazine wouldn’t want a picture ...

“I loved my career.” Barbara Vanderwark’s summation of her life in nursing was short and sweet, but the memories it created meant more than words could express. A resident of Jamestown, Vanderwark graduated from what was known at the time as the Jamestown School or Practical ...

On any given Sunday, my sister and I are likely to take a ride on the backroads of Chautauqua County. We are driven by the love of place and history. Recently, I was recalling a trip to French Creek with my father when I was a child, maybe four or five. We had stopped at a spot along the ...

“I’m an art school drop-out, but I always knew I was going to do art, just not edible art,” says Andrea Latona, owner and pastry chef at Full Moon Rising Bakery. She goes on to tell about how she used to spend three months prior to her children’s birthdays talking about the ...

YOSHIKAWA, Japan (AP) — It’s drawing time at this suburban nursery school in Japan, but instead of crayons, tiny fingers are tapping on colors on iPad screens and taking selfies. Digital schooling has arrived in this nation long known for its zealous commitment to “three R’s” ...

Landscape and memory are forever intertwined in my mind. Few places in Chautauqua County evoke memories and old narratives for me like Barcelona harbor and beach where my family spent many summers in little cottages at a place by the shore encircled by vineyards. I got lost in those ...