Day: January 10, 2018

Some emails you just hate to get. Especially one that starts like this: It is with great sadness and heavy heart … That’s how Billy Gates’ email started Friday, January 5, as he informed his email group about the passing of a friend. I had already read the subject line: Raymond Norris. And I had a feeling before I read the first line of the email. In a split second,…

By Nina Keenam In an article titled “The True Story of the Oregon Trail,” Emily Grosvenor wrote, “About one in every 200 travelers kept a journal: young girls, missionaries, pioneer wives, community leaders, adventuring single men. They wrote everything from great, expansive, narrative-rich entries to bare-bones lists of what happened on which day.” When my husband and I acquired our first RV, a 1964 Airstream trailer, we decided to keep…