Straight From The Hart

Rev. Howard Megill presents me with my 25 year ministry pin with Milan looking on.  March 2011.

  Here's a story I didn't have room for in my column this week. A doctor Harrison came to Lebanon from CA and built the large house on Adams and Hayes that Harold Bell Wright lived in. But he also kept bees and he imported dandelion seeds for his bees. Lebanon had never seen a dandelion until he brought them in. Most landowners hated them of course because you can't get rid of them Others loved them and ate them as part of their spring "greens".

How classmates change Ego Buster=========== While waiting for my first appointment in the reception room ofa new dentist, I noticed his certificate, which bore his fullname. Suddenly, I remembered that a tall, handsome boy with the samename had been in my high school class some 30 years ago. Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought.This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was too old to have been my classmate. After he had examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended the local high school. "Yes," he replied. "When did you graduate?" I asked. He answered, "In 1964." "Why, you were in my class!" I exclaimed. He looked at me closely and then asked,    "What did you teach?"

Straight From The Hart By Joan Rowden Hart Jacob Blickensderfer Goes To Town This is the final column for now on Oakland and the Blickensderfers. For you Lebanon history buffs I am detailing some Lebanon establishments with which Jacob did business, according to his diaries. I do not claim to be an expert on Lebanon history.  My information is only as accurate as the material from which I am doing my research. So if you disagree with me, it’s alright.  Either one of us could be right just as easily as we could be wrong. Jacob often left his horse at Drago’s Stable and Livery.  Anthony Drago and his family moved to Lebanon in 1866 to be near  the Frisco Railroad. He started his livery barn on St. Louis Street and eventually moved his house from Old Town to Washington Avenue.  Most people had their own horse and buggy by then but commercial travelers still needed to use a horse and buggy from time to time, and young men needed to rent them to take their girl frien

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My Favorite Music It Pays To Pray That's Reason Enough To Believe I Can Pray (Dove Brothers) God is Working River of Memory Anything my little granddaughters sing When God Ran I Will Talk To The Father For You as sung by the New Horizons Ride Out Your Storm as sung by the New Horizons God Wants To Hear You Sing He Is (as sung by the Lesters) Faces (as sung by Greater Vision)

My Favorite Quotes When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. But when you write, your words echo down the ages. "Bud Gardner" Deep in your coded instructions, your Creator has placed a very special  job  that only you can do.....You are patented and copyrighted in Heaven. (Source Unknown)  "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." ~~ A. A. Milne

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