Too Darn Hot: Looking back over 70 years of Broadway musicals
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Living in and around NYC for much of our pre-dotage life, my 1957 bride and I saw and fell in love with Broadway musicals. In the late 1950s we clapped...
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A hippie on the Long Island Railroad
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor The following is an unabridged journal of a conversation with my visiting kid brother, the late Christopher Clark Lewis, commuting on the Long Island Railroad from downtown NYC to...
Leadership on Boyer and in Laclede
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Lois Miller, a vibrant 89, never reminded me of Winston Churchill until a couple of weekends ago when I saw her in influential action with fellow Cottage volunteers on...
That earlier era of national dread
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor The reason journalism giants Ben and Cameron like me to write for the Reader is because I’m old. They invite me to remember things. I can recall pre-nursery school...
Read your history to understand the present
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor For those disposed to intellectual exploration in a time of national emotional havoc, a recent Reader issue offered a timely recommendation: read, or re-read, William L. Shirer’s “The Rise...
Days of Auld Lang Syne
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor After Scottish bard Robert Burns, borrowing words and sentiments from others before him, wrote “Auld Lang Syne” in 1788 it became, after “Happy Birthday,” the most sung song in...
Sandpoint’s secret sister: Moab, Utah
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Not every Reader reader knows that Nelson, B.C., is Sandpoint’s sister city. Or that Yalta, Crimea, where FDR, Churchill and Stalin divided up the post-war world in 1945, is...
Pine Cone Memories
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor I revere pine cones. Our Selle Valley property has almost as many pine cones as ant hills have ants. I prefer dead tree limbs to charcoal when grilling salmon,...
Fifteen years ago and still reeling
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Fifteen years ago on Sept. 11, America was yanked into the real world. As a modern nation we’d been jolted before. Bloody labor strikes and mining disasters. Millions of...
This is the place
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor My 1957 bride and I twice lived in Geneseo, Ill., a prosperous farm town of 7,000 joyful souls in Henry County, “Hog Capital Of The World.” It might be...
