The late Charlie Tremendous Jones said, “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read.” Sunday, in Phoenix at Influence, the National Speakers Association’s annual conference, my wife Lynnda, got randomly ...
Parkersburg’s favorite fall celebration, the Downtown Throwdown Food & Beer Festival, is set to return with a full evening of food, drinks and music in the heart of downtown on Aug. 23. As the city’s premier fall event, the Throwdown draws residents and visitors alike for a unique ...
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 ...
