My sisters and I used to shuck peas and snap the ends off beans on hot summer days. My mom and dad would pick them by the bushel from our two huge gardens, and then we'd prepare them for my mom to freeze and can.…

My cousin got married for the first time when she was in her 40s. She refused the usual pastoral marriage counseling because she was convinced that after looking for so many years, she'd finally found the right o…

Co-ed dorms were just beginning to be a thing back in the 60's, when John and Mary Ellen were students at the Altoona Campus of Penn State University. Co-ed was what the dorm was called when the men's wing and th…