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A Day at the Ant Farm

Aug 07, 2014 02:58PM

Did you ever read Harold Robbins’ The Carpetbaggers? I devoured it at a tender age; one of the scenes that has stuck with me over the years involved a particularly loathsome character who got his

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Minding Your 'Manders

Jun 30, 2014 07:58PM

“Mind the ’mander!” That’s what we say when we’re mountain biking and one of those adorable coral- colored spotted salamanders is crossing the trail. They are the most precious things, with their

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Mountain Laurel

Jun 04, 2014 04:13PM

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

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The Art of War

Jun 04, 2014 03:22PM

Does Sun Tzu mention woodchucks?

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Brave New World

Jun 04, 2014 03:01PM

The seasons announce their arrival in distinctive ways. Spring, I think, for all the agreeable things it represents to us, can be a bit disingenuous, with a propensity for fits and starts. Unlike fall,

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Return from The Twilight Zone

Jun 04, 2014 03:01PM

One Saturday night in February my wife Linda and I headed to the Parkhurst Presbyterian Church in the Cowanesque Valley. The ladies of the church were putting on the Tioga County Bass Anglers Annual

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In Freedom's Name

Jun 04, 2014 03:01PM

Robert B. Logue wasn’t supposed to be on the USS Wahoo.
 
 After serving five years aboard a submarine, Logue, a Williamsport native, had been assigned to a sub tender at Pearl Harbor. The

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The Fall of the American Chestnut

Jun 04, 2014 03:01PM

One fall day several years ago, my brother Ronnie was cruising one of the woodlots on our farm looking for trees to turn into firewood. His attention became focused on a corner of the woods that was

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If You Fill It, They Will Come

May 14, 2014 08:17PM

Along the rural stretch of dirt road where I live there are at least eleven ponds, one of which is mine. Most of these ponds are man-made and a few are the result of industrious beavers that have since left the area.

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It Is What It Is

Apr 18, 2014 02:45PM

Over forty years ago, members of a family in northern Scotland found themselves in a new living situation and with a need to feed themselves. Despite, or perhaps because of, a decided lack of

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