Country CousinIssue Date: December 6, 2018 Kinder and gentler"¦
Darkness is coming earlier in the evenings, and the sun is staying abed longer every morning. That will keep happening until Friday, Dec. 21, which the calendar says is the First Day of Winter. Kind of hard to believe winter isnt here yet, considering how cold it's been, and how icy side roads, sidewalks and parking lots are. Hate to think of what Old Man Winter has in store for us when he does finally arrive.
FAREWELL, PRESIDENT BUSH
The nation is in official mourning over the pas...
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From our readersIssue Date: December 6, 2018 Dear Editor:
Michigan State Senator Tom Casperson is clearly on a mission to destroy Michigan's pristine Upper Peninsula, one bill at a time. His most recent batch of bills have been rushed through the legislation before we, his constituents are able to review them and before governor-elect Gretchen Whitmer takes office in January.
And Michigan's waterways, wilderness and wildlife are in the crossfire.
Several of these bills are connected to issues concerning the proposed Back Forty Mine. During his time in offic...
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From My WindowIssue Date: December 6, 2018 Brain and Heart Food - Books
By Jane Thibodeau Martin,
After the catharsis of last week's column, an expression of my horror at the sale of American public lands to private interests, I turn to something more uplifting.
I have been unusually busy for weeks, and as a result one of my favorite pastimes, reading, has been neglected. While I was in Wausau, my nearest "big city," running city errands, I made time to visit something that's been on my list since I arrived back in Wisconsin. In a magazi...
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Country CousinIssue Date: November 29, 2018 Advent is here!
Deer Season has come and gone. Some of us are dining on venison. Thanksgiving has come and gone. Some of us are still enjoying turkey leftovers.
The Christmas season officially starts with the first day of Advent - this year on Sunday, Dec. 2, but lots of folks have been getting a head start. Merchants had their biggest Christmas sale event of the year on "Black Friday," Nov. 23, the day after Thanksgiving. Many communities already have held their Christmas celebrations, and more are scheduled in the c...
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From My WindowIssue Date: November 29, 2018 Unarmed Woods Sitting
By Jane Thibodeau Martin,
Deer hunting season is an unofficial holiday season; nonetheless, in Wisconsin, it is a holiday season. We don't refer to most other holidays as "seasons," (Memorial Day season? Fourth of July season? ) So it shares this distinction, albeit unofficially, with the "official holiday season," the period encompassing both the Christmas and the New Year's holidays as well as Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, which has been celebrated by black Americans since 1966. I do...
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