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  • Forgotten Presidents

     Quick! Who was the first president of the United States?If you said "George Washington," go the end of the line.More

  • Squibs of the Scandalous Columnist Benjamin Franklin

     The Ben Franklin fan club will come to order, with apologies for having delayed the 293rd anniversary celebration of his birth January 17.We gather not to honor his achievements as patriot, statesman, philosopher and scientist -- but to relish his irreverent contributions as a columnist. His approach to life was often unconventional, some times scandalous, but always provocative.More

  • Ben's Prayer Plan

     The controversy of prayer in governmentally supported institutions grow ever more heated. How did we arrive at this contretemps?Blame it on Benjamin Franklin – that great printer, politician, diplomat, inventor and patriot.More

  • Creek on Fire

     One would think it impossible to set a creek on fire. But that was only a minor challenge for Cousin Charley.Regular readers of this column have met Charley before as a disrupter of church revivals and perpetrator of floods.More

  • Decoration Day Boom!

     Folks said Uncle Athanatious didn't have enough sense to come in out of the rain. However, neither would you if you were in his business.Uncle Athan - no one dared call him by his full handle - operated a gunpowder mill.More

  • How Cousin Charley Unraveled Church Revival Service - Down Home Story

     It wasn't that Cousin Charley was mean, or even irreligious. He just had a hard time figuring out where fun left off and devilment started.Charley was a natural-born hell raiser in a time and part of the country where dissent was tolerated -- if not admired -- if it was imaginative and daring.More

  • Birthday Song Best

     The most popular song in the English language undoubtedly was sung to you on your first birthday – and probably thereafter by you to many family members and friends dozens of times a year.Grown men and women in service clubs sing it to each other every week with gusto.It was the first song to be sung in outer space – by Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.More

  • Friend of Man

     Conjunction of the holiday season, a Christmas card and the heavy snow in Ohio -- where I published a string of hometown newspapers for many years -- brings Ollie Saffle to mind.Good weather and bad, the old gentleman sat on a stool alongside the Seville Highway to Wooster to wave at passing motorists.Ollie Saffle probably was not his true name, but his friendly post was near a large, red barn with those words writ large for the world to see.More

  • Rip-Tail Roarers - Clever Sayings and Brags

     "Life is short and full of blisters," sighed the elderly southern gentlemen as we exchanged confidences about our various problems.That seemed to sum up our mutual outlook on the vagaries of human existence, so we shook hands and went our separate ways.That succinct sentence has returned to memory often since I first heard it several years ago - partly because of its homey philosophy, but mostly because it is a draught of cool water to this writer who has wandered long in a language desert searching for oasises.More

  • Grandpa Jerry and St. Paul - Down Home Story

     Grandpa Jerry Williams was a great admirer of Saint Paul and would not have invoked the name of the revered apostle deliberately to frighten the wits out of a St. Louis drummer. Besides, Grandpa had to replace the church-yard gate and repair the steeple.More