Yesterday afternoon we took a walk in Cincinnati’s Eden Park. Tucked into a tiny grove of trees was this fountain. Two of our grandsons were enamored with the rippling water collecting at the bottom of its little waterfall. I was…
The small back parlor was the heart of David and Ida Eisenhower’s home. On one wall was Ida’s piano. Before she married, Ida inherited $1000 dollars. She spent $600 of her inheritance for a custom-built piano. Before dropping out of college…
This past Friday Ray and I, along with our co-worker Donna, toured the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. There we interviewed Anthony Pennay, the library’s Chief Learning Officer, in order to make a video in our continuing series of Notgrass History…
Ray and I recently enjoyed the 105th Annual Stilesboro Chrysanthemum Show. The setting for the show is Stilesboro Academy, built in 1859. The Stilesboro Improvement Club has been hosting the show in teeny Stilesboro since 1912. Several of the volunteers I…
The first time I remember paying attention to politics was when I was about six years old, and John F. Kennedy ran for President. The only thing I remember about that election was that Miss Willie, our elderly neighbor two doors…
As Ray and I drove west through Kansas on our way to Colorado, we veered off our disciplined schedule when we hit Topeka. There seems to be a magnet in our vehicle when we see a state capitol. Somehow we tend to end…
