GreeneScene of the Past: Toys for Tots
Sometimes there are too many good old photos to choose just one - especially if it involves Toys for Tots...
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!
Sometimes there are too many good old photos to choose just one - especially if it involves Toys for Tots...
Read moreDetailsThe fairy garden tucked beside the front steps of the Salvation Army Greene County Service Center at 131 W. First...
Read moreDetailsA stretch of Rolling Meadows Road was hemmed with canvas tents poking through the morning mist on Saturday, October 8. Shadowy...
Read moreDetailsIt’s Harvest Festival 1980 at the Greene County Historical Society Museum and the reenactment being demonstrated here is apple pressing,...
Read moreDetailsSometimes it takes a moment of silence to allow a story to emerge, bright and beautiful, between one breath and...
Read moreDetailsI’ve talked to more than one friend who remembers driving up High Street and seeing the crane tearing off the...
Read moreDetailsIf you take one of the ghost tours of the old Huffman home, now known as Huffman House this October,...
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Read moreDetailsThis photograph of Glenn Kinsey’s hand-built street rod captures a classic moment in 50s Fest time. That’s Glenn behind the...
Read moreDetailsThe barn at Strath an De’ Farm was once the sanctuary for farm critters and fresh cut hay. But when...
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