BETHEL Choosing a child’s name feels like the first major responsibility of parenthood. But once children arrive, they tend to defy expectations and make their own mark on the world. As they grow into their unique personalities, identifiers sometimes change, too. This story is about nicknames but also about the beauty and creativity of […]
BETHEL Arlene (Remington) Harrington was always full of moxie. It was that brazen attitude that is the reason she lost part of her left thumb, when she was only 4. “My brother was mowing the lawn and I wanted to help, and they wouldn’t let me,” she says. “When that blade come around, […]
BETHEL Arlene (Remington) Harrington was always full of moxie. It was that brazen attitude that is the reason she lost part of her left thumb, when she was only 4. “My brother was mowing the lawn and I wanted to help, and they wouldn’t let me,” she says. “When that blade come around, […]
GREENWOOD Blaine Mills spent summer days bicycling from his house in Locke Mills, along the ponds on newly-paved Greenwood Road to his aunt and uncle’s farm. He had three cousins on Wesley Road. “As kids, we’d range all over the place. Go swimming, run up through the cemetery, and go up on top of […]