Kelly’s Country Store is a family-owned business in Grand Island, New York. It opened in 1962 and it has become a destination for many visitors to Grand Island. They sell a large selection of candies from old fashioned jars, as well as many varieties of chocolates. The candies include licorice, peach stones, root beer barrels, […]

Today’s post is about the adventures that I had in learning to drive a car. Although I love traveling on foot, I realize that, at times, that method of transportation is too slow to be practical. Also, in the winter, I am sometimes risking hypothermia just to get in a good walk. A few years

This is the emerald ash borer.  The emerald ash borer’s home is in eastern Asia. It is native to northern China, Korea, eastern Russia, and Japan. In its natural habitat, the emerald ash borer is not a threat. Asian ash trees are resistant to the insect. In addition, because, in eastern Asia, there are numerous

Note: Yesterday evening, author Timothy Bohen was the featured speaker at the monthly meeting of the Grand Island Historical Society. His presentation was about Buffalo’s Old First Ward. He told the story of this Buffalo neighborhood, beginning in the 1830s. Tim said that his desire to learn more about the history of his family motivated

Note:  Today’s blog post is an interview with Mighty Mouth, the Republican candidate for president, and Midas Mouth, the Democratic candidate for president. The last time that I interviewed them was on April 14th. Since then, they have gone on to win their parties’ nominations. Since the presidential election is coming up in a month,

Yesterday, I went to a presentation on the emerald ash borer. The presentation was divided into two parts. The first part was the “hands-on” part, which took place outside, near the Grand Island Town Hall parking lot. There were several people who served as group leaders, and the participants chose which group they wanted to

Note: Today’s blog post is about one of the joys of autumn. Pumpkins symbolize autumn, so I thought that I would share pictures and poems about pumpkins. The pumpkin is a type of winter squash, and its origins are in North America. Pumpkins can be grown in every continent but Antarctica but that’s OK because penguins

Note: The Rev. Canon Earle King has been rector of Saint Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church for more than 25 years. Being an Episcopal priest is a second career for Father Earle. His first career was in music. He studied organ at the Eastman School of Music and became an organist. He later attended graduate

For a few years, I have been participating in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. It is held four times a year. The challenge is to write a blog post every day for an entire month. So, today is the first day of the October challenge. Today, Saint Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church in Grand Island,

My Saturday was a combination of the ugly and the beautiful, things rejected and things cherished, brokenness and wholeness. It was a contrast between things that had been used up and discarded and things that brought joy to humans.  At about nine o’clock on Saturday morning, I joined a group to clean up along Spicer