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Auctions can be fun. One never knows what will come into their possession while attending an auction. Earlier this year while attending one such “entertainment” I became the owner of a portrait. Since then I have been moving Jerome Preston around my house as I move contents of rooms for ...

Remembering 41

WARREN — Today has been designated as a day of national mourning as we remember the life of former President George H.W. Bush. At 11 a.m., a memorial service will be held to commemorate his life at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. On Dec. 5, 1985 — 33 years ago today — ...

The Places You’ll Go

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose, according to Dr. Seuss. Even the famous rhyming author might not have imagined the places you can go when a group of Corvette owners put the pedal to the metal and steer themselves ...

Greek Monument At Tatnall, Del., Was Once A 1920s Gas Station

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — You could say the Grecian-style monument that’s been sitting on the grounds of The Tatnall School in Greenville for the last 54 years is a real gas. And you wouldn’t be wrong. Though you’d never know by looking at it, the structure was a gas station in downtown Wilmington during the 1920s. Today, the former roadside attraction is much more than a curious relic of a bygone era. It’s extremely rare. The structure, inspired by the classic Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, Greece, is possibly the only service station of about 50 built by and ...

Plan Seeks To Designate Route 66 As National Historic Trail

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new proposal moving through Congress seeks to designate Route 66, the highway that connected Chicago to Los Angeles and was once an economic driver for small towns across a post-World War II United States, as a National Historic Trail. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Jim Inhofe announced this week the introduction of a bipartisan bill that would amend the National Trails System Act and include Route 66 in an effort to help revitalize cities and small towns that sit along the historic corridor. The plan comes as cities and towns where the once busy Route 66 ...

Continuing Tradition

“I started, like my dad, as a young kid mopping floors,” says Richard Ecklof recalling his early years at Ecklof Bakery. “After high school, I started working in production.” The tradition of baking had been in the Ecklof Family for at least two generations before Richard became ...