by admin | Aug 14, 2009 | News
Back in May, one of the first columns I wrote for the Perry County Times was a plea to Embarq, our telephone company, to get on the ball and provide DSL service on St. Peters Church Road. For those of you who missed that column, here are a few highlights: High speed...
by admin | Aug 6, 2009 | News
We’re awash in heroes these days. It’s not like ancient times, when you had to be the child of a human and a god in order to qualify. Parents are heroes. Movie stars are heroes. Even criminals, in a Byronesque, anti-hero kind of way. Think Tony Soprano, or, more...
by admin | Jul 30, 2009 | News
Last week, I wrote a few words about Commodore Oliver Perry, the man who lent his surname to our fair county. I ended the piece by asking whether Commodore Perry was, in fact, one of America’s greatest naval heroes, as the popular culture of the time took him to...
by admin | Jul 23, 2009 | News
Many of you already know about H. H. Hain’s History of Perry County, the thousand page tome that was published in Harrisburg in 1922 and is still a standard reference. It’s a fairly rare book and expensive, if you can even find it. I had my eye on a copy...
by admin | Jul 16, 2009 | News
July is a fine time to be thinking about the “pursuit of happiness.” It’s an exceedingly strange phrase to find at the beginning of a political manifesto, but there it is, in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold...
by admin | Jul 9, 2009 | News
I remember the first time I bought a piece of shark. I was nervous. The guy at the seafood counter didn’t seem to think it was a big deal. “It’s just a fish,” he said. “Grill it, maybe with a little mustard.” But it was a big deal....
