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I found out the other day from John Beydler’s newest book “Picked Clean” that not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. Nope. Lincoln’s proclamation only affected slaves in the states that seceded from the union. Since Missouri was considered to be a Union State even though some people had slaves. In fact, at

After finishing the Empire of the Summer Moon and the Myth of the Lost Cause, I’m now reading Jerico Spring’s native son John Beydler’s new book – Picked Clean. I keep having to remind myself that when he talks about Clintonville and Stockton and Nevada City with no mention of El Dorado Springs, that this

I saw a neat thing at the Homecoming game Friday. The Alumni Association was (and is) selling T-Shirts. Red and White (mostly red) and making a statement of fact – “Once Bulldog, always a Bulldog.” They are only $20. Add an extra $2 for 2x and 3x. These would make excellent Christmas presents for wayward

Please read your Vintage Vignettes carefully. Last week we ran an old ad from First Savings from 1980 offering a 6 month money market CD with an interest rate of 11.968% with an annual effective yield of 12.504% and a 2 1⁄2 year variable rate CD with 12.000% interest and annual effective yield of 12.747%.

I get catalogues all the time. Fun ones. Not for equipment or office supplies. No, clothes, and hand-crafted jewelry, and little do-dads for the kitchen that will only do one thing, shoes and dashing looking attire to wear while you saunter through the leaves. I spotted a beautiful burgundy poncho in some magazine – one

I was talking to Kama Whitesell Deschane at the reception for her Grandmother, Peggy Sibley at the Wayside Inn Museum on Sunday. I mentioned that our granddaughter, Reese, was part of the Pup Squad pre-game show on Friday. She told me that her class, class of 2000, was the one that started the Pup Squad

Neither Davis nor I know what to write about this evening. There’s a lot of things going on. All kinds of things are planned throughout the fall. Did you get to go to the Prairie Swap or the shindig at Lowry City? Don’t forget to visit Nature Made Garden this Weekend. It is her Fall

My Jade plant has a new enemy. The first is gravity. The poor 20 year old plant is slowly finding itself getting closer to the floor. The second is a three year-old wielding a wooden sword. I now have several nice sized jade branches that would make nice plants. They are all on the floor 

We have Renaissance Festival tickets!! I’ll put a box on the front counter and we’ll start giving them away. We also have Knights of Lights tickets which we will give away starting the end of November. I talked to coach Eddie Long and he seems pretty excited about the Bulldogs’ football season.  I’m sure the

The Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs starts at the end of the week. I’ve been talking to the folks up there since Aug 1 about getting some tickets. They say they are coming, but they didn’t mention by what conveyance. Possibly by a Renaissance era ox cart. The same ox cart that our Missouri football