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Local history, personal profiles, and editorials on the people, places, and things that make up the Franklin County, PA and Washington County, MD areas.
Have you been to Rik’s Café in Hagerstown yet? If you haven’t, don’t be fooled by this south end strip mall location. It’s...
Every December, music is an essential holiday score for enjoying traditions and creating lasting memories. For more than a century, Hagerstown’s M.P. Moller Pipe Organ Company built instruments that brought those melodies to life, producing organs that played musical notes but...
Are there aliens in our skies, or countries launching drones against targets in the U.S.? At least one short answer is “no, Roberta, that is...
I’m a pretty big sucker for Christmas lights at this time of year. I always have been, actually. There’s just something about the...
Living in Waynesboro, local landmarks play sentimental roles in a performance that celebrates the community’s uniqueness and cultural values. Glancing at them from a distance, or entering their domain, reminds us we live in a place unlike any other. We are home. But like all towns, these...
It’s Christmas time again. Mom and Dad have put up the tree and the kids helped decorate it and I am trying so,...
One by one, my wife’s family greeted me at Thanksgiving dinner with a single question: How was the Turkey Trot? And one by...
A page of wisdom passed down through generations said a rural home required only two books. The first was a Bible to help...
The earth belongs to the living, but sometimes, parcels of land belong to the dead. After the American Civil War, a progressive era...
I want to paint a quick picture for you. Imagine yourself in a room or a space. You can see out of this...
