Living

7 months ago

Mapleton woman and granddaughter publish new children’s book

A new children’s book has come to The County. Dana Allison of Castle Hill wrote “Snowflake, The Little, White Kitty, Disappears,” while her granddaughter, Persephone Bennett of New York, illustrated. The story about a missing cat and its return home evolved over 20 years. The book tells what happens when two cats and a dog […]

8 months ago

Where’d that phrase come from?

As I was having an interesting conversation with a friend recently in which many “idioms” or unusual expressions were used, I started wondering where some of the more colorful expressions we use in everyday language come from — knowing, of course, that these must all be rooted in history somehow.