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First of all, my favorite story of the week . . . A man was sitting at a table in a bar and was about as drunk as it’s possible to get.A group of men noticed his condition and decided to be good Samaritans and take him home.

The last Christmas I spent with my dad was my most memorable. We were sitting around the table and talking about unforgettable Christmases. My dad said that the one he would never forget was in 1944.

The Thanksgiving feast—an American tradition that dates back to the 16th century when Spanish settlers held a feast of gratitude for God’s providence as they successfully arrived in what is now Florida.

It would be my first time to cut down my “own” Christmas tree. My dad and I had gotten permission from our good friend John Daugherty to go on his land and take any tree we wanted. We got started a little later in the afternoon than we had hoped.

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.