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  • WORDS: Gardening Books

    WORDS: Gardening Books

    Last week (in the Daily Sentinel) we discussed New Year’s resolutions. One of mine was to read more books on gardening. So, I thought that this week we would look at some of the books on my reading list. Actually some of them are still on my shopping list, but many can be easily found…

  • WORDS: Sugar Cane

    WORDS: Sugar Cane

    Several weeks ago I said I had spent some time stripping sugar cane and then seeing it squeezed out and cooked into syrup. I promised I’d tell you about it, so here it goes. A friend, Greg Grant, lives in Arcadia out in Shelby County and is from a family that has grown sugar cane…

  • WORDS: The Biltmore

    WORDS: The Biltmore

    \My wife has been reading a very interesting book of late, the title of which is The Devil in the White City. Among other things, the book is about the great world’s fair in Chicago during the 1890’s. Well, our family likes to read to one another when we come to passages we think others…