Articles tagged with: elwyn
I’ve Been This Way Before
By Gilbert B. Elwyn
About this time every year, I begin compiling my list of New Year’s Resolutions. I do not procrastinate about the compiling; just the doing.
Tops on last year’s list was to get …
Fathers Day
By Gilbert B. Elwyn
When we write these “wig bubbles” as Lord Buckley might have called them, we use the “editorial we”. This is done for a few reasons: 1) we have read other …
Aunt Sue’s Country Corner
By Gilbert B. Elwyn
When we left you last month you were enjoying Wildcat Falls. Our next point of interest and enjoyment is just a few miles from there.
Heading from Wildcat Falls away from Greenville, …
Spring Forward
By Gilbert B. Elwyn
Spring is probably our favorite time of the year. The fresh scent of nature’s rebirth in the air is exhilarating. As far as we can see, Spring has only …
The Dead Authors Society: Michael Gilbert
By Gilbert B. Elwyn
From time to time, this column will serve to remind you of some of the authors of the past. Grand Master British author, Michael Gilbert, remains unknown to many …
Uncle Fudd
By Gilbert B. Elwyn
In the mid 1950s our family owned a 1949 Ford. Our brother, obnoxiously precocious lad that he was, named this automobile Uncle Fudd. To the best of our knowledge it was …
The Four Freedoms Report Card
By Gilbert B. Elwyn
January 6th is the 67th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech. If you are not familiar with the actual speech, you are possibly aware of Norman Rockwell’s four-painting representation. …
Birds and Books
By Gilbert B. Elwyn
With the approach of cold weather, some birds have left the area, others will soon do so, and you might observe still others just passing through. But there will be enough year-round …
Water, water, everywhere…
By Gilbert B. Elwyn
Would you like to keep a pet, but don’t want to spend the time or expense? Do you want to beautify your space, but don’t have the
know-how? Try bird watching , with …
