A painted turtle and Angelkeep paintings
Paintings adorned the interior walls of nearly every room at Angelkeep. Bluffton’s historical commercial artist and watercolorist, Harry Lindstrand, was well represented...
It wasn’t all just about the flood 20 years ago
Thumbing through 20-year-old copies of the News-Banner the past few weeks, researching the “Great Flood of 2003” for our series of articles,...
Angelkeep Journals: The amazing ‘water fishing spider’
Not in a million years would anyone at Angelkeep have guessed Angelpond held spiders that swam underwater without scuba gear, outmaneuvered and...
State politics increasingly fought in courtrooms
To cover government and politics these days you almost need a law degree. That’s because virtually every controversial issue ends up in...
Flooded with a variety of emotional memories
Whenever anyone mentions The Flood of 2003, my first thought is of one particular photo. When I...
It’s a small, small world. After all.
Last Friday I spent the day at a funeral for my aunt, Dozzy Coburn, who was the former first lady of Butler,...
Angelkeep Journals: What ‘May’ you name a June bug in July?
Do you remember when you had to “spring forward” by an hour on all of your clocks a few months ago? It...
‘Here’s the Thing’ reaches a milestone, and it’s terrific
I would like to pause a moment to praise the people whose “Here’s the Thing” essays are on Page 5 of the...
A dozen down. Already. ‘WWA’ time flies
Some research was necessary, but it appears we published our first “Who We Are” edition in 2011. Hence this week’s publication is...
Carrion brings visitors to Angelkeep
Robinson Crusoe killed a bird for dinner only to call its flesh carrion and “fit for nothing.” Shakespeare wrote “That this foul...