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Aprons Utility Ware

By Nash Black Maybe , but not always. Aprons are used to protect clothing from stains and spills, we tend to remember them as something the women wore in the kitchen, but not always. Men wore aprons for the same reasons and as a symbol of their trade before the development of coveralls. A chef’s…

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World of Useless Information

By Nash Black Some years back there was a game people played by the hours called Trivia Pursuit. One player in our group could not endure losing and began refusing to play for one reason or another if I was playing. I explained to him I was a librarian, what I did for part of…

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Requiem for Summer

By Nash Black Weather permitting summer is over. It is still hot but the changes are all around us. Days are shorter while nights are longer. Labor Day marks the end of freedom days. The high winds of last week stripped the leaves from my cherry trees and there are more leaves drifting across the…

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Special Dishes

By Nash Black Do you remember the special dishes your grandmother kept in the cabinet for family celebrations or Sunday dinners? Maybe she had only one piece – a large platter that held a holiday ham or a turkey. Was the pattern an oriental design with a temple, a willow tree leaning over a stream,…

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Invasion

By Nash Black For over 100 years farmers and gardeners have been plagued by a the summer invasion of Japanese Beetles. The iridescent copper and green bugs were first noticed in 1916, in this country, at a nursery near Riverton, NJ. Experts believe it may have been imported in the grub stage in a shipment…

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Special Dishes

By Nash Black Do you remember the special dishes your grandmother kept in the cabinet for family celebrations or Sunday dinners? Maybe she had only one piece – a large platter that held a holiday ham or a turkey. Was the pattern an oriental design with a temple, a willow tree leaning over a stream,…

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Land Stewardship

By Nash Black “This land is our land,” is a phrase from a favorite song, but in truth it isn’t our land. We only hold it in trust for a brief moment in time. When I was hunting for a topic to write about this week, a friend suggested I talk about the wildlife that…

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Southern Talk

By Nash Black The other morning as I was paying for my breakfast, the clerk called me, “honey.” I had to stifle a laugh though I was a bit surprised it was a guy. He wasn’t being disrespectful, he was unconsciously using a term he’d heard all his life. The geographers put Kentucky in the…

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Race Day

By Nash Black May 6, 2023 all eyes will be focused on Kentucky. The four legged superstars, the sponsors, the sportscasters, the owners, the trainers, the jockeys, the celebrities, the fans and anyone else who can beg, borrow or steal a ticket for the Run for the Roses.  This is the beginning of three-weeks of…

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“I don’t get no respect,”

By Nash Black “I don’t get no respect,” was the signature line of comedian, Rodney Dangerfield. Poor Rodney never considered that dirt, plain old garden variety dirt beat him by a country mile. We scrub, we scour, and we wash to rid ourselves and our homes of dirt. Take a walk down the aisles of…

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