Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! This week I want to talk about an Appalachian favorite, the pole bean. This vegetable has been widely grown in home gardens across our area for hundreds of years. West Virginia has several unique, heritage bean varieties of both pole and half-runner ...
I know I’m early with this article, but the Parent page comes out the third week of this month, and by next month, the school will be already started so I thought I write it today. So here’s some advice that I use with my own experience as a mother. Maybe you have used all of them as ...
A wedding engagement is one of the pivotal moments in any couple’s life. It is one of the things that they will hopefully remember for the rest of their lives. A few months ago, my wife Lori and I got a call from Erik, our daughter Emily’s long-time boyfriend. Erik had been planning a ...
“You have to do something big and important, or nobody will remember you when you’re gone.” *** Muscles. Muscles imply power and precision. Muscles signify hard work and progress. Muscles contract to pull closer, to tighten up and control, to maintain and convert. There is no life ...
I’ve occasionally talked in this space about being a college dropout. In the past I used to qualify that statement as being a “proud” college dropout, though as I prepare to turn 43 on Friday, I’m not sure how proud I am of that anymore. I went to St. Marys Elementary School, ...
The Past, the Present, and the Future – The following beautiful and correct thought is from a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Peabody, in Portsmouth, on the occasion of the State Thanksgiving: “Ours, it is to be feared, is an irreverent age and land. The number of those who neither fear ...
