Front Porch Expressions

 Sometime in the early 1950s my parents and I left a second-floor apartment on Grand Avenue and moved to a new house at 2422 Dugan Court in Davenport.

Before long I had a pet dog named Pat. Pat was a playful, rambunctious, black and white, medium-sized dog. Perhaps he was a spaniel. I really don’t know; [...]

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Note: This article appeared in the North Scott Press, Eldridge, Iowa.
They call her the Beef Stick Lady. And that’s just fine with Dee Ann Paulsrud who, with her husband Ted, farms east of Danbury. That’s in west central Iowa.
For the last two years, Paulsrud has run the Beef ‘n’ Up the Troops program. That’s where [...]

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On Sunday, March 1, 2009, I celebrated my 60th birthday. Actually, let me rephrase that: I commemorated my 60th birthday. Although I’m thrilled to still be alive and in reasonably good health, I take no joy in having aged six decades. 
My, oh my, where did all the years go? It seems like yesterday that family, [...]

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I recently took an interesting step back in time thanks to Jim Lincoln of Walcott, who loaned me some sections he has of two old daily newspapers.
I was just 3 when the Thursday, Oct. 23, 1952, issue of the Muscatine Journal was printed. And the couple who would some day be my parents were high [...]

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