In April of 1949, movie goers in Parkersburg had quite a choice of venues — the Hiehle, Burwell, Parker, the Smoot, Virginia, Strand or the Palace. Just a month later, on May 2, a new, unconventional option became available for movie-goers when the Belpre Open-Air Theater opened. Their ...
If you are of a certain age, the sights and sounds of your childhood summers were quite different from what we experience now. Remember sitting on the porch swing watching lightning bugs in the yard? (Fireflies, if you’re feeling sophisticated.) Maybe an adult would run and get a jar with ...
I was raised in a section of Pittsburgh, Pa., known as Oakland. Throughout my childhood, an important building was St. Paul’s Cathedral, an enormous Gothic Revival style Roman Catholic church. It has dozens of large stained glass windows and a monumental Von Beckenrath pipe organ. My family ...
Maurita the Crochet Lady here. This month you can get all tied up making scrunchie hair ties. I use regular worsted weight yarn, H 5.0mm hook, and “ouchless” hair ties that do not have a metal fastener. The first scrunchie has loops, and the second looks like a rounded star. These can ...
Finally, nice weather is here with hot days and heavy rain, although I don’t think many feel that they are lucky with the rain that we had a few days ago. How do you like it? Should we complain? We'd better think back in the winter when we had all the snowy days and thank our lucky stars for ...
This week Lynnda and I were in Florida with our youngest and his family. We arrived a day early and went to Epcot for dinner, the fireworks and The American Adventure attraction, particularly in this 250th anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence. We know the grandchildren will not ...
