Entries Tagged as 'rural life'
St. Patrick’s church in Cambridge recently celebrated its annual “Strawberry Festival,” which turns out to mean strawberry shortcake with a choice of sponge cake, angel food cake or shortcake biscuit. I chose the biscuit, thinking of the way we like to serve strawberry shortcake at our home. As you can see in the photo above, […]
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When we aren’t moving sheep and chickens around on our new farm property we occasionally break to move our possessions from the District of Columbia to Upstate New York. My wife, who remains in D.C. to pack all of our worldly goods and prepare our apartment for new tenants, yesterday sent a friend, John, 400 […]
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Tags:authors·money·moving
The Washington County Band opened its summer season with a free concert at Fort Salem Theater last night. Here’s their take on the gospel classic Just a Closer Walk with Thee, performed in the style of a New Orleans jazz funeral march. It’s amazing to me that a community this small can field so many […]
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Tags:music