By Mary Ellen Shaw Once you have lived through several decades you will realize that various aromas have a connection to a certain time period in your life. One of the earliest aromas that I can remember was the delicious […]
Tag: By Mary Ellen Shaw
Column, Looking Back
Remembering Seward’s
By Mary Ellen Shaw When I read that Seward’s Restaurant is closing my mind went to memories that began in childhood. When you have been around for more than of a century it’s rare to have an existing business that […]
Column, Looking Back
Gardening this fall
By Mary Ellen Shaw Well, how did your garden grow this summer? Did you try anything new? Experimenting with new plants is one of my favorite things to do. When the calendar tells me that Labor Day has arrived I […]
Column, Looking Back
Remember the cold, snow and ice?
By Mary Ellen Shaw When I submitted my column to Polly recently I added a comment about how much I dislike hot weather. I told her I had much rather have it cold. I also gave her permission to remind […]
Column, Looking Back
Shopping for items of the past
By Mary Ellen Shaw I realized that I am “stuck” in the ’50s when Venetian blinds are still my choice for privacy and keeping out the sun. Apparently, the majority of consumers have moved on to more modern options! About […]
Column, Looking Back
Objects: large to a child, small to an adult
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 […]
Column, Looking Back
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 […]
Column, Looking Back
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. […]
Column, Looking Back
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 […]
Column, Looking Back
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 […]