GreeneScene of the Past: The Monon Center
What town can resist not just one but two chances to celebrate being on the front lines when America was...
Read moreDetailsColleen has been a freelance artist longer than she’s been a journalist but her inner child who read every word on cereal boxes and went on to devour school libraries and tap out stories on her old underwood portable was not completely happy until she became a VISTA outreach worker for Community Action Southwest in 1990. Her job – find out from those who live here what they need so that social services can help fill the gaps.
“I went in to the Greene County Messenger and told Jim Moore I’d write for free about what was going on in the community and shazam! I was a journalist!”
Soon she was filing stories about rural living with the Observer-Reporter, the Post-Gazette and the GreeneSaver (now GreeneScene).
Colleen has been out and about in rural West Greene since 1972. It was neighbors who helped her patch fences and haul hay and it would be neighbors who told her the stories of their greats and great-greats and what it was like back in the day.
She and neighbor Wendy Saul began the Greene Country Calendar in 1979, a labor of love that is ongoing.
You guessed it – she loves this place!
What town can resist not just one but two chances to celebrate being on the front lines when America was...
Read moreDetailsHandmade bricks and locally cut sandstone have stood the test of time – and faith - in Greensboro. When Europeans...
Read moreDetailsThe pair of lion sculptures that guard the stoop of the elegant house at 145 W. High St., Waynesburg let...
Read moreDetailsThe photographs and sketches that remain of Josephine Denny (1893–1992) are a window into the life and times of a...
Read moreDetailsWhen COVID-19 closed Pennsylvania on March 13, 2020, The First Baptist Church at the corner of High and West streets...
Read moreDetailsWhen Flenniken Public Library in Carmichaels celebrated its 60th anniversary on the first of May, I was one of the...
Read moreDetailsHere’s a glimpse of some of the fun stuff that was happening in Carmichaels – and Flenniken Library - in...
Read moreDetailsWhen Greene County was being settled in the late 1700s there were about 70 Catholic families scattered in around the...
Read moreDetailsThe village of Fordyce is easy to miss – it sits on a straight stretch of Garards Fort Road, surrounded...
Read moreDetailsThis old photograph of the general store at Moredock’s Crossroads captures the early days of the 20th century in picturesque...
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