We’ve got it wrong about birds. There are some nature facts that people recite by rote. Things like “Birds go south in the winter.” and “Birds migrate to warmer places to spend the winter.” These facts have been repeated so often that they are taken for granted. In fact, they are ...
My Christmas village was destined to remain in hibernation this year since I am moving in mid-December. Totes and secure boxes protecting over 50 buildings, 200 Village citizens, a ski resort and train station, dozens of trees and snowmen will not be unpacked this year, I thought dismally. ...
Although Randolph’s Joan Waterman likes to make the recipes her family has made for many years, she adds new ones while carrying on old traditions. She is a Computer Integration teacher for Frewsburg School District, where she has been employed for the past 16 years having spent most ...
After the glorious warm fall colors and before the white blanket of freshly fallen snow our landscape in western New York and Pennsylvania appears very drab. Even after the blanket of snow loses its freshness, the natural world seems full of grays and browns and more grays. However, ...
Picture this scenario: Business man, dressed to the nines, every hair in place as he squints through the sleet making his way down a sidewalk in a cold and blustery storm. In an effort to keep himself looking crisp and composed, he reaches for the umbrella in his briefcase, and throws it open. Imagine the wind bearing down against the outer surface of the umbrella, causing it to tighten and bow around the ribs that give the umbrella its strength, when the umbrella suddenly snaps inside out. Our poor sap, despite his efforts, will show up to his meeting looking as though he has been ...
Today in the world of almost instant communication, it is hard for many of our younger generations to imagine what the world was like in the mid-to-late 1800s. Through the collections of letters that have survived, we can get a glimpse of what families thought was important when a letter was ...
