By Maureen Timm On Halloween an old witch flies Upon a broomstick through the skies ‘N’ gleaming goblins dressed in white Go sliding gliding through the night ‘N’ big black bats with big black wings Go flop against the walls an’ things ‘N’ round eyed owls cry “Who-who-who” But-I’m not scared a bit, are you?  By Elsie M. Fowler  Traditions […]

By Barry Krause  Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel” has amazed everyone by staying the number one hit music single for eleven straight weeks. Other favorite songs today are “Hot Diggity, Dog Ziggity Boom” by Perry Como, and “The Great Pretender” by the Platters, but rumors have it that Presley is the one to watch.  “Around the World in Eighty Days” […]

By Mary Sikora  From the early 1600s our ancestors lived under British rule. They fought with the French. They fought with the Indians. And they fought the same fights all over again. During all that time, they owed their allegiance to Great Britain . . . until the American Revolution, that is. Then the ties frayed quickly.  In 1804, our […]

By Robert Reed  For centuries the method of pulling loops of colored material through a mesh of open fabric was well known but the settlers who came to America enhanced it.  The enduring hooked rug was to be sure quite specifically a home craft of this country.  “Rug hooking was a craft born of necessity,” notes Jessie A. Turbayne the […]