Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! It is hard to believe but August is here. Next thing the kids will be back to school. It has been a hot and wet July, but hopefully things will dry up some this month. This month will see a lot of sweet corn harvested in addition to tomatoes and ...
Nearly from the moment Gutzon Borglum carved the stone monument to “The Start Westward,” the centerpiece of Muskingum Park has been slowly deteriorating. An effort is now under way to replace the statue in the park with a bronze copy and move the original indoors. Newspapers have ...
“How did we get here? And even worse, is it worth it?” *** Culture wars. Humanity has very few mainstays — things that have simply always been. From the beginning, we’ve developed and persisted in language, understanding the importance of communication. We’ve insisted on and ...
I have no blood connection with John Adams, one of our nation’s founding fathers and the second president of the United States. But I’ve read enough of his letters to find a real kinship with the underappreciated man. One of his famous quotes is often paraphrased, but below is a direct ...
Handsomely Rewarded — A Young Man Saves a Train and Gets a Gold Watch One night about a week ago a tremendous mass of earth and rocks slipped down onto the track of the O.R.R.R. a short distance this side of New Martinsville. E.E. Williams, a young farmer living in that neighborhood, ...
Slapping the word “patriot” on things that are emblematic of anything but the behavior of a person who is truly patriotic seems to have become a favorite hobby of a few politicians who have forgotten who they were elected to serve and the founding principles they are bound to ...
