DO WE HAVE IT RIGHT, YET?
DO WE HAVE IT RIGHT, YET? Sometimes I wonder if it is “in the cards” for us to ever get it right, on this earth, or “under the sun” as ...
CURTIS & LEROY
THE WORDWRIGHT, Lite Sometimes it is good to indulge in some silliness instead of the somber and sober news and events of the day to bring us back to the ...
LIFE AT THE BIS – “What’s it all about, Alfie?”
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, ALFIE? Copyrighted 2010 by Bill & Jean Venrick, Lancaster, Ohio What young man or woman hasn’t had this thought pass through their minds? What are the ...
CULTURAL CRISES of the BIS
Copyrighted 2010 by Bill & Jean Venrick The pictures accompanying this essay show a BIS boy plowing with horses and a BIS boy driving a tractor pulling a hay bailer! ...
“I NEVER KNEW THAT…”
I NEVER KNEW THAT – Part One, Tunnels at the BIS Copyrighted 2010, Bill & Jean Venrick Lancaster, Ohio While we were researching the history of the Boys Industrial School ...
POTS ‘N PANS
By Jean Steel Venrick (Mrs. Wordwright) “Come into my kitchen and let’s talk about pots and pans.” You may be thinking, “What is so exciting about that subject?” I’m very ...
PRINCIPALS and PRINCIPLES
Whenever words are being used some kind of definitions and/or parameters must be factored into the equation. So let’s begin with the words themselves. “PRINCIPAL – First in rank, authority, ...
ETY BROTHERS’ DAIRY FARM
It isn’t every day or even a life-time to have been acquainted with a top-notch dairy farmer who married a grade-school classmate and both of these individuals have been known ...
HAITI and disaster relief…
An interesting Letter to the Editor of the Columbus (Ohio) DISPATCH points out a “beyond the media’s eyes” work by the Amish. Here is that letter as Merrill Sheets, Delaware ...
Wandering and restless milk cans
by Delores Miller, Hortonville, Wisconsin Delores and Russell Miller are “old friends” of Bill Venrick as we are members of the American Amateur Press Association for a couple decades. A ...