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Picnic Season In Hickory Heights

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Picnics took on various purposes through the years. Sometimes we had picnics when the men were working. That meant that either my sister-in-law and her family traveled or we did. In those days we ran two farms together. When the men worked at the lower farm, the picnic was there. When they worked on the upper farm that is where we had our picnics. Of course, whoever happened to be working with them that day had a picnic with us. The neighbor’s children were often helpers. Boy could those kids eat. They were good to feed because they ate everything and never complained. They sat by ...

Stillwater Church Marks 25 Years

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​ Call it twenty-five years, two and a half decades, a quarter century or 9,132 days. Whatever you call it, the people of Koinonia Christian Fellowship are excited and ready to celebrate their church’s big anniversary in many ways. One of those ways is the creation of a cookbook. Church ...

Forget-Me-Not Isn’t Only A Flower

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Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most. I wish that old cliche were not so appropriate. I don’t know who said that first, but he or she was a perceptive genius, and definitely over sixty – the age when chronic forgetfulness moves in permanently. What are you saying to yourself? “I’m only 50 and I forget something every day?” Lucky you. You have been blessed with early onset CRS … Can’t Remember Stuff. I’m sorry for you, but I can’t help. And there is more bad news about this insidious disease: there’s no cure. It gets worse. Once you start losing ...

You’re A Grand Old Flag

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One of my favorite projects that I had my students take part in. for maybe about the last ten years of my career, was our annual tribute to one of the symbols of our country, our Red, White and Blue, our Stars and Stripes, our Banner of Freedom, our American Flag. The idea of a Flag Day Celebration came about as a follow-up activity we started a couple years before our Flag Day Celebrations originated, when we began inviting Veterans to a luncheon on the day before or after Veterans’ Day, and had our students break bread with them, listen to their stories, which were not always as ...

Once Upon A Time In Falconer

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Once upon a time, long ago now, I spent a lot of of time in the City of Falconer, which I found to be a magical little place. It was the home of my mother’s sister and her little family of four, and they were ensconced on a tiny little street named Grace, which at the time was inhabited by five or six houses all set on just one side of the street. On the other side lay a vast expanse of nothing, or so it seemed to me, with a highway somewhere far afield. And like all good highways, few kids knew where it went and where it came from. Occasionally my little cousin, who was once a ...

Walters-Burris

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Crystal and Brett Walters of Eagle Bridge, N.Y., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Kerrigan Lorraine to Johnathan Alan Burris. Johnathan is the son of Lisa and Rob White of Jamestown, N.Y., and John and Patty Burris of Sevierville, Tenn. Walters and Burris are both ...