Friends recently invited us to spend a day with them at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Ray and I were excited that one of the possible dates was during Dollywood’s Harvest Festival, when the theme park brings in special music…
The Notgrass team gathers each weekday morning to pray together on Zoom. On Monday I asked if anyone did anything special over the weekend. Bonnie, who works remotely from West Virginia, spent Saturday at an annual woodcutting day at her…
At the Centre for French Colonial Life in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, we saw displays about pewterware used there in the late 1700s and early 1800s. We usually associate pewter with the English colonies on the east coast of North America,…
The first house that Ray and I toured in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, was the Louis Bolduc House, built in 1806. Bolduc was involved in lead mining, salt mining, and agriculture. Town residents shared a 7,000 acre agricultural tract. The field…
Through the years, I have heard many people groan about reading the genealogies that God included in the Bible. That is sad. God included those long lists of names for His own perfect purposes. Family is a major theme throughout…
The United Kingdom said farewell to their Queen on Monday. King Charles said farewell to his beloved Mummy. After watching her fulfill her role so beautifully since he was a small child, he has now stepped into that role himself.…
