That would be mine, and I’ve grown used to grabbing my mask when I see someone pull in my driveway, empty egg cartons in hand. I watch astonished to see the nine-year-old (part of my upstairs family) run out to greet the mailman with his T-shirt pulled up over his mouth and nose. The children are scrupulous about masks.
But now the four of us, along with so many others, have been vaccinated. Our pie-making morning was a coming out party of sorts, albeit a cautious one. There we were, all over 70, a couple on the far side of 75, chattering away as women do, but it felt so fresh. We kept marveling at how
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Once again, it’s the paper, the documents that hold the town’s history that are the backbone of our collection. And because we’ve collected so much of it over the LHS’ 45-year history (Jackie Watts founded the Historical Society at a 1975 meeting in her living room) much of it has never even been read.
The other day, I went rummaging through our collection – no, not literally through boxes and boxes of random stuff – but searching our database for the original deed to the property. Both Connie Parker and I remember there was a deed. Connie, by the way, has been the other half, with me, the duo who catalogued literally a couple of thousand items since about 2003.
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Don’t try to pick out faces. This happy group didn’t live here. See below for who they are
Photo courtesy Jane Liedtke
A selection of Barbara Bentley and Julie Turkevich’s fabric cards. No two alike!
Photo by Julie Turkevich
I’m on a losing streak, one that never seems to end. That’s not a metaphor for my life’s trajectory. I’m
really not winning our game. Night after night I lose the first one, and then, predictably, the second. Rummikub. Ever heard of it?