Monthly Archives: January 2014

Collecting Cookie Jars

January 30, 2014 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

In the late 1700s the British devised a way to keep their tasty morsels fresh. They invented the biscuit jar. It took about 125 years for this idea to make its way across the Atlantic, but it finally did and in the early part of the 1900s, American glass factories … Read More

Richard Lawrence and Old Hickory

January 30, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Who is Richard Lawrence and why should you care? In the next few minutes I’ll introduce you to him, but as for caring, I’ll leave that up to you. Richard Lawrence was a house painter by trade. More importantly, he was the first known person to attempt to assassinate a … Read More

Company Man

January 30, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

One year in St. Louis Missouri, I worked seven days a week in the advertising department of a company, for seven months straight. Those months and days included two national holidays, and my two young children went to work with me Saturdays, Sundays, and those two holidays. My business card … Read More

Applause!: Jan. 31-Feb. 7

January 30, 2014 | by Weekly View

• The Garden Bilder Seed Swap at the Benton House on Jan. 25 was a resounding success, with many people showing up on a blustery day to swap seeds, trade, talk, and learn from each other.  Gardeners have to be the most hopeful, optimistic people in the world —they believe … Read More

Appless in Indianapolis, Part 2

January 30, 2014 | by Rose Mary Clarke

To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! . . . So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! For many years I was self-appointed inspector of … Read More