I Love This Place: Finding Budapest
My inspiration to take this road trip through the southeastern corner of Greene County came when my friend Juliann Wozniak...
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!
My inspiration to take this road trip through the southeastern corner of Greene County came when my friend Juliann Wozniak...
Read moreDetailsThe album of Dunkard Township churches on file at Cornerstone Genealogical Society has only this small photograph to show for...
Read moreDetailsMaking church real for kids is the challenge of any church wishing to keep its young flock in the fold....
Read moreDetailsAs you might have guessed by now, I love having a stash of Greene County roadmaps in the glove compartment...
Read moreDetailsI found this moment in time captured on page 892 of the History of Greene County by G. Wayne Smith. It...
Read moreDetailsWhat’s in a name? When US Rt. 19 heads south out of Waynesburg it becomes Mt. Morris Road as it...
Read moreDetailsIt was the kind of bright spring day that shouts “let’s go out to the ballgame!” when I met up...
Read moreDetailsHere’s a magazine cover photo that gives Brave some bragging rights: “Mr. America 1952 Jim Park” is a native son....
Read moreDetailsI was surprised that Kent’s Chapel in Brave was not listed when I searched online for United Methodist Churches in Greene...
Read moreDetailsThe Denny sisters paint a fine picture of what life was like for those with means in the early days...
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