Shining the Light: The Grange
Almighty Father, maker of Heaven and Earth…. When President Andrew Johnson sent federal postal clerk Oliver Hudson Kelley to collect...
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!
Almighty Father, maker of Heaven and Earth…. When President Andrew Johnson sent federal postal clerk Oliver Hudson Kelley to collect...
Read moreDetailsWhat I really love about our school is we’re the center of the community. We can walk to the town...
Read moreDetailsThe poster laminated on the wall by the door of what was once Carmichaels High School Library is a loving...
Read moreDetailsWhere there’s a will there’s The WAY.No doubt about it – it’s taken a whole lot of will to put...
Read moreDetailsAs Hatfield’s Ferry Power Station without its towering emissions stacks comes into view, I blink and for an instant my...
Read moreDetailsBoom! Photographer Roberto M. Esquivel of the Herald-Standard snapped this freeze frame moment of demolition as the old truss bridge...
Read moreDetailsAsk Drew Colebank what inspired him to specialize and practice family medicine and he’ll tell you: it happened in church....
Read moreDetailsStepping back in time at Jim’s Point Marion Hardware at 126 Penn Street comes with its own creaky footsteps, which...
Read moreDetailsA copy of this old photograph of Frank Sadler and his Fourth of July float in front of Sadler’s Hardware Store...
Read moreDetailsRoss Kalsey remembers his first mission trip – as a dad helper, recruited by Josh Sumpter, youth minister of First...
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