February 11, 2010 RSS feed / Features

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Thoughts of an Average Joe

Outhouses Have Come a Long Way
By JOE WRIGHT
IGREW UP AT A TIME when every camp—and these were camps, not cottages—had an out-house. My grandparents built a camp on a small pond up north in the 1940s. The outhouse was named Myra. More...

A Death In The Family

By L. K. Walker

IT DOESN'T MATTER how small a farm you live on, a farm is tragedy. Or rather, I should say, tragic. Because that is what it is to be alive on this earth. We eat to live. We consume life around us. More...

What’s Cooking

Choices
By PHYLLIS GREENWAY The Northfield News

SUPPOSE A CHEF came in the front door, and your grandmother came in the back door. Whose recipe would you use for family or fun? That’s my problem all the time. More...

Keeping In Touch

By CHRISTINE BARNES The Northfield News
Photo by Christine Barnes, The Northfield News

Man did not weave the web of life – he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle, 1854 More...

Silly Social Scenes

“As to his general character, it would not be safe to trust the representations of satirists.” Thomas Babington Macaulay
By Miss Aineeda Lobotomy Semi-Permanent Guest Columnist

SELECTMEN MENTIONED IN SÉANCE – Your Miss Lobotomy had the unestimatable pleasure of attending a séance recently in which she hoped to raise the shade of her dearly departed, ravishingly rich, extremely cheap Great-Uncle Horace Fronto-Lobotomy More...