Every Zippo lighter every made is and has been manufacrured in Bradford, PA. Likewise, every Case knife — W.R. Case & Sons is now owned by Zippo — has been…
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Bluebird
After I graduated Jacksonville High School at the tail end of the ’60s, I enrolled at Lon Morris College, a small Methodist junior college across town. Among my LMC classmates…
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… as Jethro Bodine would have said. Not all days feel like I’ve landed in paradise. Today was one of those. We’re short-handed by one. That leaves three. Two were…
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Back about 1960 I was a Cub Scout in Maysville, Oklahoma. Mom was a Den Mother. Apparently there was a merit badge available for making a scrapbook; I can’t think…
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Today is Monday. The picnic areas are empty. All but a few campers and a handful of fishermen are home, on the job in their office, their store, or their…
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Willow Creek — clear, cool and from time-to-time home to tasty trout — provides a restful place for a mid-day break. But the water level is dropping. We’ve had .25…
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But when we were watching the beaver paddle around, she was absolutely uninterested.
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IN the 1950s and early ’60s, Turner Falls was a lightly developed swimming hole south of Davis, Oklahoma. We lived north of there in Maysville, but Turner Falls was fairly…
Continue readingGood neighbors
And good people. They are where you are and they will find you.
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