Fred McFeely Rogers was born in 1928, 40 miles from Pittsburgh in the town of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. His parents were James Hillis Rogers and Nancy McFeely Rogers. After graduating from high school in Latrobe, Fred went to Dartmouth College. He…
Late yesterday afternoon Ray and I returned from a dream vacation. Perhaps you could say that it all started on a Sunday morning last summer. One of our youngest daughter’s children told me about a trip their family was planning.…
Ray and I recently visited Calhoun County, Illinois, with members of our family. Calhoun County is a peninsula almost surrounded by the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Visitors enter it on one of its three ferries or its lone bridge. We…
Wouldn’t you love to have been in the room while Almanzo Wilder told his wife Laura Ingalls Wilder the stories she included in Farmer Boy? When Laura published the book in 1933, she was 66 years old and Almanzo was…
One of the many skilled people who have helped us reclaim our old house stopped by yesterday. He needed to pick up the drill charger he and his co-worker left here last time. I’m grateful for the plumbers, electricians, carpenters,…
As Ray and I explored downtown New Harmony last Thursday afternoon, we were intrigued by this business on the corner. Was it a theater perhaps? To our surprise, it was a dulcimer shop. We went inside and saw a wire…
