Category: Americana
Posts related to US history, geography, traditions, etc.
Family times are times when knowledge is passed down
Last week I took time for a walk up into the woods. The woods that I normally walk is filled with beautiful stands of oak, but on this particular noontime walk…
Gather flowers before frost
Gather flowers before the frost Last night was the first frost here in West Granby. So for me it was time for my annual tradition, going out and cutting armfuls of flowers…
Fun for the 200th Anniversary of our church
The early part of our church’s history was during the Victorian era. So to enhance the sense of the age of our church, our Anniversary committee invited people to dress Victorian…
Mudslinging and the Golden Rule
A contrast between a message on love and the political fracas The Sunday message today was about expressing love in action. In our small church, we sometimes have a Questions and…
My Take on the Super Bowl Ads 2016
I haven’t been really following football this year, but I always enjoy watching the Super Bowl ads. I am especially interested in Super Bowl advertising because it is such a mirror and…
Migrating left without moving
Observing politics today is disconcerting It is interesting and very disconcerting to me to observe what has happened in politics over the last ten years or so and what is happening this…
Using the berries God provides
When we moved here 2 years ago, I soon noticed a group of elderberry bushes in bloom just over a stone wall. It was being attacked by marauding vines and overshadowed by…
2015 Train Fair visit
Sometime during the later years of my service at Kirkville I became an annual visitor at the train show on the NYS Fair Grounds. When I arrived in CT, I was delighted…
Christmas Trains for 2014
How it started One of my hobbies is model trains, specifically, O-gauge trains running around my Christmas tree. Yes we had a Lionel train which we three Jones brothers shared when I…