Shining the Light: Fordyce United Methodist Church
Fordyce United Methodist Church on the Whiteley Township side of town cuts a low profile when seen from Garards Fort...
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!
Fordyce United Methodist Church on the Whiteley Township side of town cuts a low profile when seen from Garards Fort...
Read moreDetailsAdam Courtwight’s spring house on Martin Road in Aleppo Township is beautifully made and has had its share of people...
Read moreDetailsThe log cabin fever that’s been sweeping Greene County since the early 1970s has finally found its worldwide audience. When...
Read moreDetailsFor the Coles of Hoover Run, this is where it all began. This is the original Cole family home, a...
Read moreDetailsWhen Waynesburg University opened its doors to a new class of freshmen in 2020, COVID-19 restrictions were in place. Students...
Read moreDetailsI love the wonderful things Greene County volunteers have been doing, even as the COVID-19 pandemic changes the way we live...
Read moreDetailsI’m back in Mt. Morris, checking out a church I overlooked in 2017 when writing my first Shining the Light...
Read moreDetailsThis old photo is a chance to revisit Christmas 1964 with Ralph Bell and his family. They sit in the...
Read moreDetailsGreene County Flying Club is aiming for the sky! It‘s another perfect day for flying at the Greene County...
Read moreDetailsBrowsing the photographs stashed in neat yearly files on the S.O.A.R. webpage soarofgreenecounty.org seems like a real blast from the...
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