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Happy slow, quiet, dull New Year
The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day was wonderfully different than every other week of the year on the dairy farm of Alan Guebert’s youth.
How did you learn the joy of accomplishment? Can you say ‘rock pickin’ party’?
The farm ‘chain gang’ toiled in the fields, in the hot sun. But we weren’t planting or weeding or even picking a crop. Unless you call rocks a crop.
Farm and Food File: Christmas joy in the gymnasium
A month ago I enjoyed a church dinner in the gymnasium of the grade school I attended 50 years ago. Back then, the gym sparkled with newness because, like the school itself, it was brand new, finished just weeks before I reported to the first grade as an equally new student.
We’ve come a long way, or have we?
Is anyone else old enough to remember when the worst epithet you could scream to someone on the playground who was bullying you was, “You think you’re smart!” and that would send the chastened bully slinking to the other side of the playground? Today there is just as apt to be a shooting or a
Falling into fitness? It’s all in the jeans
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt says with autumn comes a clothing reality check.
Pennsylvania fair queen promotes ag
The 2017 Pennsylvania fair queen, Butler County’s Madeline McEachin, is dedicated to promoting agriculture and representing the fair community to the rest of the state.
You’ll pay more for Easter eggs and bacon
You’re going to be paying more at the store for your Easter eggs. The American Farm Bureau Federation’s latest Marketbasket Survey shows the total cost of 16 food items was $53.27, up $1.73 or about 3.5 percent compared to a year ago.
Cooking goose brings back memories
For the first year in five, the lovely Catherine and I will not be driving a sack of sweet potatoes, a cooler with a thawing turkey buried under dozens of adult beverages and a jar of sauerkraut to Washington D.C. for Thanksgiving with The Heirs. Different plans Instead, we’ll be slicing a bird and playing
Spring brings joy of mowing the lawn
Why is it that the first mowing after the long winter is such a pleasure — and how is it that by the end of summer the last mowing can’t come too soon? Climbing aboard the dear old John Deere was such a familiar activity yesterday but I didn’t remember being quite so stiff! Winter
Getting real with reality television
Why, oh why, do Americans like watching “reality TV?” Columnist Kym Seabolt wants to know (and to vote off the real network executives).
