Month: June 2012

  • It’s still very true, but there’s a bit of fiction in the

    All of IL’s recruiting lists as well as in depth features and writeups on all the top players can be found in the digital edition of Inside Lacrosse Magazine. It is available now for Apple and Android tablets and smartphones and the Amazon Kindle throughiTunes,and the. Experience the digital edition for a new look at…

  • Little Free Library

    This is not a column, but a story I covered that intrigues me. Joseph works with Ken Matocha with Habitat for Humanity. Ruth is in my quilting guild. By Joan Hershberger jhershberger@eldoradonews.com One after another, they have appeared around the nation – a small building-shaped box on a pole holding maybe two or three dozen…

  • Remembering Grandpa Hibbard

    Thanks to all my family members who contributed their thoughts – even if I did not credit you. JMH With a history of emphysema, my grandpa, James Hibbard, thought he would be six feet under and pushing up daisies long before he had more than a couple of grandchildren from his twin sons and daughter.…

  • The kid with the Barbie fishing pole

    Some kids go to camp to play games and swim, but not the boy in my husband’s cabin at camp last week. He wanted to do one thing – he wanted to go fishing in the camp fishing pond. The camp keeps a supply of used fishing poles for campers, but the lad brought his…

  • Mass vaccination day at school

    One by one, the classes in the upstate New York school lined up to go to the cafeteria, but we were not going to lunch that day. We were going to get vaccinated. Inside the cafeteria lunch tables had been re-arranged into rows of sterile draped counters, topped with stainless steel trays filled with the…

  • The biggest losers take a trip

    Give my husband and me something we must take with us on a trip or do beforehand and we will forget it, lose it or come up short at the crucial moment. Sometimes we remember in time, sometimes we remember too late. An hour after we left home for the airport on our last trip,…