This Remember When column is inspired by a photo in my recent hometown newspaper of my senior year football cheerleading squad. That photo was in the Remember When section of the newspaper---almost 30 years ago! Holy crap…where has the time gone?
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"Where Fillmore County News Comes First"
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Friday, May 24th, 2013
Volume ∞ Issue ∞
- 11:44:26, May 21st 2013 - airmaxs52274 - Have you ever thought about adding a little bit more than just your a ... [Read More]
- 5:56:33, May 18th 2013 - modgudur - I guess the child is anti-gun control since Obama went to all that trouble ... [Read More]
- 9:27:41, May 16th 2013 - caal girl - Nice outfit on you. I loved some of the dresses but am holding my breath ... [Read More]
- 2:03:34, May 14th 2013 - - Thanks for sharing the trip with us! ... [Read More]
- 4:12:01, May 9th 2013 - Amanda Ziebell - Wow! Thanks to the Fillmore County Journal for this kind story. For a ... [Read More]
- 11:47:30, May 7th 2013 - EW - ramble.....ramble.....ramble..... ... [Read More]
- 10:25:25, May 7th 2013 - Thunder6 - Great article! I love to see the Youth of Fillmore County receiveing acco ... [Read More]
- 6:52:10, May 6th 2013 - Jason Sethre, Publisher of Fillmore County Journal & Olmsted County Journal - Maryh, ... [Read More]
- 7:29:56, May 5th 2013 - maryh - Where are OCJ's available for pickup...other than at the new office? ... [Read More]
- 2:41:47, May 3rd 2013 - Remark1976 - Mrs. Buckbee, I just looked up Senate File 796 and in it there are said p ... [Read More]
More notes from a country kitchen 10/29/12
Fri, Oct 26th, 2012
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With school in session the kids are assigned book reports or papers on certain notable figures or papers on world events. Their biggest source of information today is the Internet. Boy, what I wouldn’t have given for the Internet back in my day! When we got an assignment that involved doing a paper on a specific topic, our main source of information was the school library. The best source for any topic was the “World Book Encyclopedia.” Each letter of the alphabet had uts own volume or book. Information from around the world could be found in those books.
Salesmen used to go door to door trying to sell the World Book Encyclopedia. Many college students made money during the summer months peddling those books. You could buy one volume or letter of the alphabet at a time if you couldn’t afford the entire collection all at once. If you couldn’t find what you needed in the encyclopedia, you asked the librarian and she would start looking in the card catalog for a certain book or books that might help you with your topic. Current event topics could always be found in the daily newspapers, or you could watch the nightly news with David Brinkley or Walter Cronkite on your black and white television set.
The library had all the major newspapers available for you to read every day. Other items that helped with the report were magazines like Time and Newsweek. During your study hall you could sign out of the study hall and go to the library to do your research. You had better behave while in the library or the librarian would send you back to study hall! Hopefully you had a study hall, otherwise you had to go to the library before school or right after school. That made it tough for kids who had to ride the bus. When it came time to finally write the paper you had to use lined paper with a good pencil or pen. No “word document” on the computer with an attached printer! Those poor teachers who had to try and read everyone’s writing! That was a job in itself!
Since it is apple season I dug out my very old and very good Apple Crisp recipe. I actually made some last night.
Apple Crisp
Peel and slice about 12-15 apples of whatever kind you have.
Combine 1 ¼ cups white sugar, 3 T. flour, 1 ½ tsps., cinnamon and ½ tsp. salt in a bowl. Put ½ of the apples in a 9x13 pan. Sprinkle with ½ of the sugar/flour mixture. Put remaining ½ .....
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Salesmen used to go door to door trying to sell the World Book Encyclopedia. Many college students made money during the summer months peddling those books. You could buy one volume or letter of the alphabet at a time if you couldn’t afford the entire collection all at once. If you couldn’t find what you needed in the encyclopedia, you asked the librarian and she would start looking in the card catalog for a certain book or books that might help you with your topic. Current event topics could always be found in the daily newspapers, or you could watch the nightly news with David Brinkley or Walter Cronkite on your black and white television set.
The library had all the major newspapers available for you to read every day. Other items that helped with the report were magazines like Time and Newsweek. During your study hall you could sign out of the study hall and go to the library to do your research. You had better behave while in the library or the librarian would send you back to study hall! Hopefully you had a study hall, otherwise you had to go to the library before school or right after school. That made it tough for kids who had to ride the bus. When it came time to finally write the paper you had to use lined paper with a good pencil or pen. No “word document” on the computer with an attached printer! Those poor teachers who had to try and read everyone’s writing! That was a job in itself!
Since it is apple season I dug out my very old and very good Apple Crisp recipe. I actually made some last night.
Apple Crisp
Peel and slice about 12-15 apples of whatever kind you have.
Combine 1 ¼ cups white sugar, 3 T. flour, 1 ½ tsps., cinnamon and ½ tsp. salt in a bowl. Put ½ of the apples in a 9x13 pan. Sprinkle with ½ of the sugar/flour mixture. Put remaining ½ .....
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Chicken Breasts
Fri, Sep 14th, 2012
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Starting back to school always brings back happy memories! New teacher, new clothes, and same old friends that you haven’t seen since May! When I was in elementary school we had a morning milk break just like they do today (no, I didn’t have to
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Rainbow Garden
Fri, Sep 7th, 2012
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I walked into my backyard and picked a rainbow of cherry tomatoes tonight. Small yellow, orange, red and purplish tiny tomatoes filled my container.
The taste of these sweet orbs has no comparison to any purchased commercially. Tomorrow my lunch
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A little of this, A little of that
Fri, Sep 7th, 2012
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My Grampa, Ernie Schwartz, scoffed at the idea of brunch, claiming it was a trick used by women to trick their menfolk out of a meal. Women do seem to love brunch. Probably because it is so relaxing especially when it can be made the night before in
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Rachel Reader: A Playwright for All Seasons—Ibsen and An Enemy of the People
Fri, Sep 7th, 2012
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Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People is a 19th century Norwegian social-problem play examining what happens to the political minority in times of crisis. Ibsen asks how those at the ideological outposts of society treated when their views clash w
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The joy of cooking
Fri, Aug 31st, 2012
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It wasn’t until my daughter was a baby and developed multiple food allergies that I really started exploring the art of cooking. I had to religiously read food labels, and was surprised at what I found. I found it easiest and best to make her food
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The price of reality
Fri, Aug 24th, 2012
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WARNING: this article contains derogatory comments about our TV viewing in 2012 from a critical perspective. So, if you read on, just remember that you were warned (smile).
Do you ever wonder what happened to the real “movie stars” that we use
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Awaken the Senses
Fri, Aug 17th, 2012
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I had been working at the computer all day, living only inside my head and stuck in the chair. Returning to the real world, I glance out the open window to the lush green treetops swaying in the breeze. The call of a blue jay pierces the air. A squi
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