Our theater of seasons
Mid-Atlantic Division
Mounds View Swede reports: “On a visit to relatives in Silver Spring, Maryland, we took a late-morning venture into D.C. before the snows started later that day. The cherry blossoms were starting to bloom, hooray!
Continue reading “They went southeast looking for an early taste of spring. And what did they find?”
A patriotic American midday diversion for you . . . Continue reading “Matinee Idle (Vol. 1, No. 74)”
It happens every spring
Sleepless from St. Paul (in Minneapolis) has sent us “an interesting spring-training tidbit I came across a few years ago: Continue reading “From Palatka, Florida, to San Juan, Puerto Rico: where the boys of summer used to spend their springs.”
A mechanically satisfying midday diversion for you . . .
Life as we know it
Pull of a Place Division (cont.)
Your Late Night Lady: “Subject: The Immigrants.
“I am sure dozens . . . no, hundreds of your readers have stories to tell like that of Mounds View Swede‘s ancestors. And your younger readers should pay attention. Continue reading “The Immigrants: “from huts and shacks to bright white frame farmhouses and big red barns, cattle and chickens and hogs and huge vegetable gardens. . . .””
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