Country Comments

Language is not the only thing that has gone by the wayside. How many of you remember the pay phones? I read an interesting article about them which I wanted to share… In this installment of ‘Profiles in History,’ we meet an innovator whose family emergency led to the creation of the pay phone.

I recently read where test scores are down across the state in our public schools. The news made me think of the following item sent to me by one of our readers…. Teaching Math: A Historic Overview A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost production is 4/5 of the price.

There are many reasons to subscribe to your local newspaper. Here are just a few….START A FIRE — Wadded-up newspaper is the traditional beginning for bonfires, fireplaces and camp grills.

Jessie Anderson Chase’s Short Story, ‘The Old Things’ People who have lived a long and fruitful life have much to give to the younger generation.As time passes, youth turns to old age in the cycle of life. Often, the young don’t appreciate what’s come before them.

In 1841, American writer-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) published “Self-Reliance,” placing the ingenuity of the individual above an unquestioning acquiescence to the collective.

Division of the human family into two distinct political groups began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains in the summer and would go to the beach and live on fish and lobster in winter.

A preacher said to a farmer, “Do you belong to the Christian family/” “No,” he said, “they live two farms down.” “No, I mean are you lost?” “No, I’ve been here thirty years.” “I mean, are you ready for Judgement Day?” “When is it?” “Could be today or tomorrow.

There are a lot of things being updated for the “baby boomers” including some classic tunes. One of our “baby boomer” readers recently shared some of her favorite “updates” . . .

My father was also my pastor for half of my lief. I have such great memories of that church and those who attended. Recently I read an article written by Walker Moore about “Country” churches and it brought back so many memories…. I grew up attending small, country churches.

Under no circumstances should any white person say the N-word. It has been communicated to everyone that, for historically understandable reasons, that word is per se offensive when uttered by anyone who is not black. But what about the term “illegal alien”?