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It was a scary time for us kids and our parents

During the first half of the 20th century, no illness inspired more fear and panic than polio. Sometimes called infantile paralysis, polio struck the US every summer and fall. In 1952 more than 21,000 cases of paralytic polio were reported.

I can remember in my lower grades how we dreaded this disease. A good friend of mine, a Freddie S. , contacted this and never knew what happened to ...

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Twenty-Eight Percent.

It would appear, were one to give credibility to CNN’s “polls”, that a shocking twenty-eight percent of responding democrats feel that Superdelegates should vote “their conscience”. Their conscience. Not mine, not yours, but theirs. I will give a gracious nod and brotherly slap on the back, a thank you, and an I.O.U. a drink someday to the 24% tha...

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Through the past, darkly.

Hoo-RAH! It’s an election year, and we all know what that means.

We’ve got some real meat going on the grill in this one too, I mean hell, we’ve got black, white, women, septuagenarians, and a veritable cornucopia of “sensitive touchy feely” issues sure to entertain and entangle. Let’s be optimistic, I suppose. Its ...

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Can I have 30 Seconds of Your Time?

With the air of anonymity brought forth by the internet, I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend. The ability to lie and make disparaging remarks about certain races, religions, and even political parties without a face or name attached to these posts is causing more and more people to become emboldened to participate in this behavior. The obviou...

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Bullhead: An Angler's most popular "ugly" fish

Mr. McNitt, "Years ago a trio of North Country woodsmen who caught to bullheads to sell to restaurants, taught me their easy and quick method for cleaning them."  Could you share the details on the easy, quick method for cleaning bullheads, I would be "grateful" too. Thanks for another great article...

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