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 […]
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Old fashioned hobbies
By Mary Ellen Shaw We pretty much know that in this day and age “screen time” takes up a good portion of a person’s day…even in their spare time. But how did people spend their free time back in yesteryear? […]
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Looking at ads from 100 years ago
By Mary Ellen Shaw When the Rutland Historical Society calendar for 2022 arrived I took a look at each month and was taken back in time to 100 years ago. From January to December there were pictures of ads for […]
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Starting to seek out seeds
By Mary Ellen Shaw Just in case you aren’t an enthusiast of snow covered ground, let’s look ahead this week to spending time in the garden. When the second half of January arrives my thoughts turn to playing in the […]
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Remembering ‘feel-good’ writers
By Mary Ellen Shaw With the challenges that Covid has brought into our lives it makes many of us look for “feel good moments” in our day. At times we need to replace negative thoughts with positive ones and how […]