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Peggy Keener: The holiday treat that never retreats – ever!

Fruitcake factoid. All fruitcakes are not created equal. I discovered this early on as a small child when ...

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Peggy Keener: Magazine evokes American nostalgia

What very popular American magazine links its history to Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette? You’re never going to get ...

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Peggy Keener: Who knew Nov. 11 was such a big deal?

But, first here are a couple of newsy must-know items. Were you aware that  currently the average price ...

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Peggy Keener: When Jessica became America’s baby A

Viewers around the world were glued to their televisions on Oct. 16, 1987. You, too, may well remember ...

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Peggy Keener: Baby news that rocked the world

On July 25, 1978, our world learned of a medical marvel unlike anything it had ever known. A ...

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Peggy Keener: Want s’more smores, Milton?

Since he was a kid, Milton S. Hershey had a sweet tooth. A really, really sweeeeet tooth. So ...

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Peggy Keener: What it means to be a neighbor

When was the last time someone asked you to be his neighbor … and really and truly meant ...

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Peggy Keener: Help whether you want it or not

My friend Lee recently loaned me a book that is a treasure trove of good, down to earth ...

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Peggy Keener: Josephine Rogers’ unyielding conviction

In late June of 1863, warnings of approaching Confederate forces were everywhere. In the small town of Gettysburg, ...

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Peggy Keener: Letting Go

Every month, Martin’s parents embarked on a journey to visit grandma, returning home on the same train the ...

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Peggy Keener: The life (and death) of a bombshell

Born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926, Norma Jean Mortenson Baker began her life as an orphan. ...

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Peggy Keener: Things you need to know

Hear Ye, Hear Ye ! It’s time for all the news that’s fit to print as comes to ...

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Peggy Keener: Rub-a-dub-dub

Question: what has a shiny corrugated two-sided metal plate framed in wood? Everyone of our mothers had one. ...

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Peggy Keener: The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence

I want to share with you the life of someone who it would be fair to say, we ...

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Peggy Keener: America’s first house … that white one

Toward the end of the War of 1812, when James Madison was president, the British burned “our house” ...

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