11.07.08
Posted in Main, Word for the Day at 10:12 am by Holder
Corn: a small hard seed or seedlike fruit, especially the seed of any cereal plant; kernel; in England, wheat; in Scotland and Ireland, oats; grain [Websters 1957]
Maize: a kind of grain that grows in kernels on large ears, also called Indian corn or just corn in the US, Canada, and Australia [Webster’s 1957]
Corn: The various cereal or farinaceous grains which grow in ears, and are used for food, as wheat, oats, rye, barley, maize [Webster’s 1879]
Farinaceous: Consisting or made of meal or flour; yielding farina or flour [Webster’s 1879]
Farina: The flour of any species of corn, or starchy root, such as the potato, etc. [Webster’s 1879]
Of course there is also corny humor and corns which grow on feet, not to mention corn liquor. And there is probably a good bit of all those types of corn in Wayne County, OH. But in this photo it is corn being transferred after harvesting into a truck near Wooster.
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11.06.08
Posted in Main at 11:39 am by Holder
Farming is still big in Wayne County OH. The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute is in Wooster. We used to call it the Ag Station. This farming country is, “boys and girls”, where you get your food. That is until, at least, all food production also moves to China. I really think that the liberal university educators and students on the coasts with their snobbish attitudes, who just “fly over” the great land in the middle of our country and think that our opinions don’t matter, need to take a driving trip across the US of A so that their thinking can come back to reality. In fact, all college students should have to give one year before college working on a farm. It would do them good.
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11.05.08
Posted in Main at 10:46 am by Holder
Barak H. Obama, President Elect of the United States of America
This is a good thing when we look at our past and think of Martin Luther King and how he helped to keep the peace in a rough time of positive change. It has been a remarkable process of progress through a generation. The equal rights amendment was a positive change that was sorely needed in our country. And now we can look over those years and be happy with what has taken place this week in America.
Stay in the “center”, Mr. President, Elect, and if you’re left of there, please move over toward the right. Protect our right of free speech. Protect our right of gun ownership. Protect our Constitution and don’t look to change it in any fundamental way. It was written so that it safeguards the citizens from abuses of government but was not written to provide for their every need…..that is up to the people themselves if they are healthy and can work. People getting something for nothing will weaken, and in my opinion, has weakened our country. Promote the ideals of education that teach reading, writing, mathematics, history, geography, the sciences and the arts; and teach children how to form their own opinions, not tell them what opinions to hold. Continue to promote the foundation of the family. Promote the ideal of legal immigration and protect our southern border because it will be your duty to provide for our defense.
I wish you the best because this is my country too.
Susie Holderfield
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11.04.08
Posted in Main at 8:41 am by Holder
Election day always brings back memories of Grandmother Walter who was involved in politics in Wayne County Ohio. Here is a photo of the Wayne County Courthouse in Wooster. One of my grandmother’s positions involved vote counting in the basement of this building. That was actual counting of votes on paper ballots with no machinery involved.
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11.03.08
Posted in Main, Word for the Day at 2:39 pm by Holder
“Progress” improvement, advance toward perfection or to a higher state
Sometimes progress hurts. Wooster, in Wayne County Ohio, is one of those old towns in which the buildings were built right next to one another, sharing walls in common. Walmart moved in and built at the north end of Wooster and then many new businesses followed. This resulted in the decline of downtown Wooster in spite of many efforts to keep it going. There are some buildings for sale and some that have had their fronts changed over the years. Recently the new wonderful library was built in the downtown area and there are hopes that will help to anchor some businesses to that area. So far I don’t see that happening. On our recent visit we noticed that the only department store in the downtown was closing. This is very sad to me because I see a lovely little downtown area disappearing.
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