Today is Wednesday, November 6 [date of submission] and for some reason I am feeling patriotic. Let’s talk about one of our most amazing forefathers. One of the most intriguing men in our nation’s history. He was a newspaper publisher, poet, and inventor. He was a man with many hats. His dad was Josiah Franklin…
Saturday morning we heard some great news and our buttons are popping. Our grandson, an MD in his second year of residency at County Hospital in Milwaukee, spoke at a conference of doctors this week in Chicago. He is going to be an Ophthalmologist. He showed a video of him doing an eye operation. The…
The last of three love stories At my last writing I asked if Brahm’s ever got married and you can guess what the answer is. He was so devoted to his work that he would not have been able to concentrate on a family. Paul talks about this concept in the Bible, but it is…
When I was a lad we had great actors and actresses. Movies were a big thing. I never went to movies until I began dating the girl that is now my wife. It’s hard to imagine if you see a young person today, they did not see 9/11. In fact they do not remember any…
The latest article on visiting old friends reminds me of a close friend that I I had in high school and haven’t seen since we graduated. I don’t know where he is or even if he is still living. I look back and see him as a high school kid. I’ll give you his real…
As I sit and contemplate on a mid July morning, the 4th is past, and now we look forward to Labor Day, then Thanksgiving will be coming. Of course the Olympics will be coming soon. I can’t believe how fast time matches by. We don’t really appreciate the hot weather, but it is so much…
I was sitting in the parlor one summer afternoon just watching the storm outside the window. When the storm stopped there appeared the most beautiful rainbow. Just contemplating, I noticed the rainbow touched the ground just at the edge of the woods where we often went to gather May Apples in the spring. My brother…
Where the roses never fade. Listen… I hear Jimmy singing: “I am going to that City. Where the streets with gold are laid And the Tree of Life is blooming Where the roses never fade” My mind can’t conceive what heaven will be like but I like to think what our life might be like.…
I have often been amazed with the Appalachian people, and the stories they tell. I always wanted to visit the people that have very little education, seldom see a doctor, and perhaps never a dentist. I have gone to visit my daughter near Atlanta and have traveled l-65 to Nashville, l-24 to Chattanooga, then l-85…
I have recently run across a topic which is quite interesting. If I were younger you would be on my bucket list. Much of Appalachia’s history was passed down from person to person through hundreds of years, in stories. Stories of tragedy, faith, loss, and community. I know this story is true, because Dorothy was…
As one ages it becomes difficult to generate a great deal of enthusiasm for most things, but I had heard about the eclipse for almost a year. I told you a couple weeks ago I had thought about driving 20 or 30 miles from my home base. Leaving just in time to get there. According…
Phil and Amanda Miller had two beautiful daughters, that were the talk of the Town, Goring, Missouri. Phil and Amanda were strict Methodists in a town of Baptists, Presbyterians and Lutherans. The oldest daughter Shelby, fell in love with a Methodist by the name of Loring Johnson, of the respected Johnson family. He was really…
The first solar eclipse visible in our area in a long time will take place on Monday, April 8th, 2024, beginning at 1:53 p.m. The next solar eclipse will be in 2044 but it will be visible in South Dakota. You’ll have to travel for that one. Better get a pair of glasses pronto. A…
