The most wholesome entertainment ever — Beaver, Wally, June, and Ward As I have been trying to recover from some terrible bug over...

"A Christmas Carol" -- “Scrooge” is a misnomer today He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the...

Christmas Trees By Robert Frost The city had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of...

From the Desk of President Joe Biden · Say the name Franco Harris and most everyone talks about the catch, the Super Bowls, and the glory...

Being a young boy in Lilly gave me such a tremendous amount of joy. I tried to determine one remembrance that would stand above all the...

Bikes were often the major means of transportation at that time, and I often rode my bike up town and remember trying to get up the hill...

From Jan. 2013 with some 2018 edits Staying away from home on Dec. 23, 1972: The Immaculate Reception Story Growing up in a family with a...

Joe Skura I grew up in “Upper Dutchtown” - Farmer’s Turnpike. I loved so much about growing up in Lilly. First, my cousin, Niki Shedlock,...

... a Jewish man succeeded in a predominantly Catholic community The building still stands on the corner of Railroad and Cleveland...

Winter Reading List 2022-23, with previous lists included “My Antonia” by Willa Cather, done “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly, done “It...

… but 2023 will be better To say that 2022 was a tough year may have been an understatement — in certain areas. In others, it was great,...

Photo — Star of David … Judaism never mattered to me I never remember hearing the term “anti-semitism” in my early years in the...

Our childhood homestead in the winter Most of us have special memories of our youth. For so many who grew up in my hometown of Lilly,...

Yes, it can Read the novel at Project Gutenberg: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301001h.html Part One The question was asked by...

Do you have problems writing essays or papers in high school or college? Do you want to improve your SAT and ACT verbal/English language...

My recollection of Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28,1963, starts with the weather: It was bitterly cold, especially at about 7 a.m....

Linda Hudkins is a retired journalist who wrote for decades, and she recalls as a young woman how she reacted to the death of President...

… and Maz’s homer is still the greatest ever As a 13-year-old on Oct. 13, 1960, I was an eighth-grader at St. Brigid’s School in Lilly,...

Father Jonas McCarthy, TOR, a Franciscan marvel who taught me a great lesson about the power of prayer [A version of this appeared on my...

Joe and Franco did not get along well -- but Chuck Noll and Franco did … new book discusses the friction When I was an undergraduate at...