Editor's Note: This is the fifth column in a series featuring the author's travels along Route 66.This was our eighth day to travel The Mother Road, The Will Rogers Highway, The Main Street of America, all names given to Route 66 over the years. This day could be described as a reverse scene ...
Tragedy strikes us all now and then, once in a lifetime, maybe a few times. When it does, we are sent reeling for quite a while, longer than seems reasonable, longer than we ourselves admit. The landscape itself seems slightly off, unfamiliar. The daily road is rocky. Even the beauty of sun and ...
The news about rural America - a place I consider to be the heart of America, where values and traditions endure - is, in a nutshell, not good.Or better put: a lot of it is bad, but some of it is good.For one thing, the Census released data earlier this month showing that everyone else in ...
If there's one thing I seldom write about it's sports. I love watching sports, especially football and hockey. Baseball can be fun to watch, too, however, as a native of a city without a pro team, it's hard to root for an out-of-market franchise. I don't mind the Pirates, though.That all being ...
After years of hard work, raising two sons as a single parent and putting them through college, Westfield's Linda Lavid made a complete lifestyle change. Her decision to leave the Buffalo area and relocate on the lake brought her to Chautauqua County."These are the happiest years of my life. ...
Disabilities can hit us at any time during our lives. Some people end up in wheelchairs, on prescription drugs for a lifetime, or require constant therapy and medical treatments. For some, living with a disability can be energy draining and may lead to depression or far worse. It is how a ...