Oct 26, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Becky Killian (We turn over this space this week to an award winning writer, photographer and journalist to share with you a Halloween story. Just keep saying, “I ain’t afraid of no ghost.”) Before sitting at a desk last week at the newspaper office where I work, I...
Oct 19, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) I will tell you up front, this is a nutty story. I enjoy getting outside in the fall when the air is cool & crisp. And gathering persimmons and hickory nuts are a way to enjoy the out of...
Oct 12, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Bicentennially speaking over 200 years ago, when Vincennes, Indiana was a small prairie borough just beginning to blossom, a man named Elihu Stout came to town and made history. That year, in 1804, the fledgling frontier settlement of the Indiana...
Oct 5, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) There’s probably no one more independent, down to earth, and plain speaking than the American cowboy. The western lifestyle—or at least the romance and longing to be associated with that...
Sep 28, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener We are just over a month away from the general election and your favorite candidate is either ahead, behind or statistically tied depending on which poll you read and when. But there are other non-political polls conducted. Following are the odd...
Sep 21, 2016 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The Autumnal Equinox—that time when the amount of daylight and dark is equal and signals the first day of fall—is tomorrow, Sept. 22. And according to the signs of nature in the wilderness, everything is on track. The dogwood leaves are turning tinges...
