Feeling thankful for the Fall Folk Festival
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
My wife Pam and I have been attending the Fall Folk Festival for 15-20 years now (let’s just say “umpteen” years for argument’s sake); and, …
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
My wife Pam and I have been attending the Fall Folk Festival for 15-20 years now (let’s just say “umpteen” years for argument’s sake); and, …
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
Just who was this luminary comet of a man? This figure whose heart failed at the young age of 38 and yet at different times …
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
Growing up in the ‘80s, it seemed Ironman triathlons were king. We watched them on TV, talked about them in school and had our favorite …
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
Let’s imagine that Helen Keller were not deaf and blind. Let’s forget temporarily that infamous defining moment around the well pump with Anne Sullivan, all …
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
Perhaps you developed an appreciation of the Tour de France, as I did, while watching Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong dominate what was historically a …
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
To those of you who’ve attended Catholic school, the words “Iron Nun” may conjure up strong images, but certainly not a picture of the sweet, …
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
There are questions we will never know the answers to: Why is there suffering in the world, why does Hawaii have interstate highways, and what …
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