Evelyn Birkby passed away February 7 at the age of 101. She had been on a gentle glide path for several months, comfortable at the Ambassador …
Christmas Eve or Christmas morning, when does your family open presents?
Friday marks the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and…
“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
Each year, Fremont County gives the golf course money to operate. Why? The golf course should be making money, or else it should be sold and p…
Shenandoah often feels like an extended family. However, as a predominantly white community, Shenandoah can also be exclusionary to people of …
One feature of social distancing I find myself struggling with is being at home more. I am a person that enjoys “going on adventures,” as my g…
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Have you ever went exploring for a weekend?
As a person that has taken country dance lessons twice and frequently used to go dancing with my husband Larry, I am perplexed as to how I for…
I attended the American Education Week Celebration Wednesday at the Elks Club in Shenandoah, hosted by the Shenandoah Iowa Education Foundatio…
In 1999, my friend Michael Carey wrote a poem to mark the 50th anniversary of my Up a Country Lane column. Now, twenty years later, the column…
My sons Bob and Craig are visiting from their homes in Seattle. We have been talking about this house on Honey Hill where they grew up. Bob wr…
In a few weeks I will reach the seventieth anniversary of writing my weekly column. Through the years there have been many people who have ins…
Almost seventy years ago I sat in my little kitchen on our farm south of Farragut and wrote my first column for the Shenandoah Evening Sentine…
My Up a Country Lane column has been published in this newspaper every week without fail since 1949.
I’ve included recipes in my newspaper columns for nearly 70 years. That does not mean I was a very good cook when I started writing. Here’s wh…
The 3,500 columns I have written since 1949 have included almost that many recipes. I am sometimes asked what my favorite recipe has been. Her…
I always joke my birthday present 20 years ago was being hired at The Valley News, which was obviously a good present because I am still here.
More than six decades ago, I wrote my weekly column about Dwight D. McMahon, a young man killed in the Korean War. Today as we observe the ann…
A contortionist, unicycles, juggling, people swinging high above on the trapeze and The Wheel of Steel.
I’ve begun looking to November and the 70th anniversary of writing my Up A Country Lane Column. Of the more than 3,500 columns that have been …
Seven years ago, my husband Robert and I were almost tricked by a scam designed to take advantage of older people. I was embarrassed to write …
I don’t get out much anymore, but I still feel that my world is very large. Friends come to visit. My sons telephone to share what they have b…
I’m enjoying thinking about all the celebrations around my hundredth birthday. My phone continues to ring with friends checking in. I get emai…
After several weeks of visitors, celebrations, and excitement, my home is finally calm again. My 100th birthday created much more activity tha…
Today is my one hundredth birthday.
I’ve never gotten ready for a 100th birthday before, but I’m having fun doing it this time. So far it has involved lots of good friends and fo…