Sonja Britton: Growing up on Old Route 66
Comfortably seated in her warm and inviting home, tastefully adorned with the gifts from a life in...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Dec 13, 2019 | Old Timers, Feature Stories | 0 |
Comfortably seated in her warm and inviting home, tastefully adorned with the gifts from a life in...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Nov 15, 2019 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |
“I’m known as Rita Loy.” At 80 years old, although diminutive in stature Rita Loy Simmons speaks with a dignified and kind voice. “My grandfather walked through the snow from Edgewood to get to my birth at Rohoboth Mission....
Read Moreby Thomas Campbell | Jun 11, 2019 | Old Timers, Feature Stories | 0 |
In her youth, her family had a small dairy herd and it was her job to milk 10 cows every morning...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Jul 16, 2018 | Old Timers, Feature Stories | 0 |
He is a small man, but even at age 87 has large hands which are gnarled with the work of decades...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Jun 15, 2018 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |
Alpha Schweedler says she was named “Alpha” because her father was in the University when she was...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Oct 7, 2016 | Old Timers, Feature Stories | 0 |
She was born during the Great Depression to a truck-driving father who didn’t support his family,...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Sep 12, 2016 | Old Timers | 0 |
Don Youman has rushed to the front lines to save guys in war; he knows how to perform a...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Dec 2, 2015 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |
Alma Wimsatt caressed the blue and yellow soup tureen she had made with gnarled hands, as if she...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Nov 9, 2015 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |
Josephine Bassett’s house is bustling with activity seven days a week. Her sons run a construction...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Oct 21, 2015 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |
By Judith Costello Thirty-two years ago, Shirley Davis (now Shirley Maldonado) became the first...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Sep 4, 2015 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |
By Judith Costello He comes to the door slowly, his body forming a 90-degree angle. Benjamin...
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