As of this past Wednesday, I am a “masked man” - at least at night. No, I’m not some nocturnal masked man like Batman (I shudder to think of mishaps a klutz like me would cause with Batman’s fabled utility belt. Gotham City would be a smoldering crater inside of fifteen minutes.) Nor am I
Carthage’s J-Term Opera production, Puccini’s one-act comedy Gianni Schicchi, has become one of the best feel- good stories of my entire time at Carthage .... although it didn’t start out that way. We chose the opera back in the summer, when it seemed like the only problem we would have with casting the show would
I’ve known two 100-year-old women in my life, and one of them just passed that astounding milestone a few weeks ago. Henrietta Welch was a teacher for 42 years, and her career began as an 18 year old teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in northern Wisconsin - and ended with her presiding over one of
Racine, WI (AP) - The gymnasium at Somers Elementary School was the scene of what one adult onlooker described as “one of the most intensely fought competitions” in the history of elementary school spelling bees . . . Well anyway, that’s how it appeared to this interested onlooker. I was one of about fifteen adults
When we built our house 15 years ago, we realized almost immediately that the dimensions of our living room (two-stories tall) required us to have a much larger Christmas tree than the one we had .... or else we would be in danger of doing an inadvertent reenactment of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” year after
