Before I go any further -- Merry Christmas!And while I’m at it -- Joyeux Noel. (French)And I shouldn’t forget -- Meli Kalikama. (Hawaiian)And for those of you who can speak Lithuanian -- Linksmir Kaledu!I’m not a linguist. But I do know that if you’d like to extend yuletide greetings to ...
Since the presidential election, Republicans have gradually slipped from defeat, to disappointment, to denial, to despair. Could decay be far behind? To continue the alliteration -- don’t know, don’t care.What I do know is Republicans who persist in blaming other people for their ...
When I was a small child, it was always a mystery to me why, on Christmas mornings, Pearl and Jack Owens used to hover over my older brother Marlin while we opened our presents.Heck, Santa Claus had done all of the hard work.He’d climbed down our (non-existent) chimney, and he littered our ...
I’ve been fortunate. When I was in my preteens, and I decided that I’d make my life’s work “finding out stuff and telling people about it,” I never dreamed that I’d be lucky enough to do actually that.Along the way, I’ve conducted (my estimate) well over 2,200 interviews.I had ...
Just as Uniontown is getting ready for Christmas this year, holiday preparations were well underway 107 years ago this week.There was a front page story in the Dec. 12, 1907 edition of the Uniontown Morning Herald that certainly must have caught the eyes of everybody with a sweet ...
There were two things that were on the minds of Fayette County’s newspaper readers 71 years ago this week.While war was being waged in Europe, in December of 1941, there were ominous signs that a new war -- this time in the Pacific -- could ensnare the United States.And there was that ...