A lot of what we read about today concerns educating our young with guidance toward becoming productive, happy adults. Of course, ideas and opinions are as numerous as the population. Education is a moving target for trends and movements like new math, open classrooms, online education, magnet ...
By Roy Hess Sr. It was just a small ad selling a shoulder mount of an eight-point buck in the local paper. But reading it unearthed memories of an event that terrorized my childhood for a short period. After my older siblings had married and moved, it left just me and my youngest sister ...
In our lives, we are sometimes privileged to interact with exceptional individuals; maybe few, maybe many. They may impress us, amaze us, baffle us, or even enrage us. They may fade from our memory or return there at any time. One such character that I still remember fondly is an uncle to ...
Growing up, I thought we were rich. We were, but not in the way that I imagined. A lot of my early impressions came from living in Dawson. That might sound strange, but in my lifetime we always had indoor plumbing and running water. Our street and the other streets where we romped were ...
I鈥檝e been told that I resemble my brother Lou. I guess I do, so much so that even today someone will ask me if I鈥檓 still on the mail route he had. (Usually, I explain that Lou passed away a few years ago after having been retired from the mail route for about 20 years.) I was very ...
We were only on a short trek from the Dawson post office for coffee at the Pea Pod in Vanderbilt when the strangest memory crossed my mind. As I navigated the curves of Route 819 with the care of an octogenarian great grandfather, I was suddenly driving from suburban Dundalk, Md., into ...
