Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, is the world’s largest living history museum – the restored capital of Britain’s largest, wealthiest outpost in the New World.
“Many of the weather vanes from Colonial America were made of iron, forged either by local smiths or English smiths,” says Kenneth Schwarz, master blacksmith, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that a week later you’re hungry again.
A tax payer is a person who doesn’t need to take a civil service examination to work for the government.
A flashlight is a great gadget for storing dead batteries.
A tourist is a person who drives thousands of miles so he can be […]

Every farm and most households in America used to play host to at least a small flock of laying hens – doing so was, after all, part of the program for feeding one’s family. Those flocks also supplied plenty of meat for the table, either as old hens long past their reproductive prime or cockerels […]

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100th anniversary ceremony for Chief Menominee statue.
Sept. 18, 2009, at 4 p.m. Location: Peach Road south of Plymouth, Indiana.
Directions: South of Plymouth on US 31, turn west at Chief Menominee Monument sign, go 6 miles, turn north on Peach Road. Statue is on east side of Peach Road.
Chief Menominee and his band of […]

Who’s WHO in Swine Flu?

The novel H1N1 virus was first called the “swine flu” when an outbreak began in the U.S. and Mexico in April 2009. The novel H1N1 virus is a new strain but shows similarity to the original swine flu, which normally occurs in pigs. The new strain has genes from the human […]

For several fairs during the late 1970s I sold Beacon apples, aka the “State Fair Apple,” in the Horticulture Building. The Beacon apple, developed by U of MN plant breeders in the 1920s, is one of the few varieties that ripens by mid-August–in time for the State Fair.