By Mary Ellen Shaw As adults we have occasions to observe how small something actually is that seemed large to us when we were children. That happened to me just before the school year came to an end at Christ […]
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Remembering phones of yesteryear
We recently had some work done on our car and one of the staff members said that he had tried to reach me but the call “didn’t go anywhere!” I asked if he had dialed 802 before our landline number […]
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School’s out…let’s play!
By Mary Ellen Shaw When I was a kid “back in the day” and the school year ended many of us recited the phrase, “No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks!” We were free at last. […]
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Early days of Beauchamp & O’Rourke Pharmacy
By Mary Ellen Shaw I get to take a trip back in time whenever I stand at the counter of Beauchamp & O’Rourke Pharmacy on Woodstock Avenue in Rutland. To the right of the register is a photo from 1959 […]
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Old cameras and film photos
By Mary Ellen Shaw I met some friends for lunch recently and one of them brought some old photos from the ’80s… ’90s. Among them were pictures of events showing people we had worked with. You know that a vast […]
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Color in the garden
By Mary Ellen Shaw If you have been waiting for color in your gardens that time is here! It will only get better as the weeks move forward. The first blossoms we see are from bulb flowers. They offer wonderful […]
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Remembering life in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s — before technology
By Mary Ellen Shaw I recently came across an online article in which various people wrote about the way they remembered life from the 1930s into the ’50s. The general consensus is that everything was a lot more work back […]
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Memories from my inbox
By Mary Ellen Shaw It’s always fun to open up my email inbox and find pictures and stories that take me back in time. A friend recently sent me an email with pictures that definitely said, “Remember when?” One was […]
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It’s almost bloom time!
By Mary Ellen Shaw Well, we are inching closer to seeing some blooms on plants, shrubs and trees. When they appear it will mean that garden season is just around the corner. Every March I look for the first blossoms […]
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Old expressions are “a thing of the past?”
By Mary Ellen Shaw I was listening to “The John Tesh Radio Show” recently and one of his topics was phrases that were used “back in the day.” When I heard some of them I realized that I still use […]