Together in Saltville, Pauline (top row, 2nd from the left, known much later to us as Granny ) and her little sister Bea (bottem left...

"Granny", with her daughters, visiting the Empire State Building in 1965.   "This is where we'll go if you come back...

Okay, I know what you're thinking.  Christmas is over.  Way over.  Like there isn't even any Christmas turkey left in the house.  ...

I don't often do this, but I'm going to post a quick video here.  I'm not much of an Apple fan, but someone over there has the h...

Recently I've been digging around an old house that we will soon be remodeling.  It has been interesting to discover many outdated prod...

I've been too busy for Christmas shopping this year.  I'm in the middle of a project that includes cleaning out an old house and p...

Avalon , Directed by Barry Levinson There are many movies that families watch as annual traditions.  When we were kids, it was Mary P...

Parkland , directed by Peter Landesman I'd only seen a few glimpses of this movie in the last week; a small display at Wal-Mart...

It is not something that I recognized right away.  Growing up, my yearnings seemed normal to me.  But that shouldn't surprise anyone....

Carnival of Souls  (1962), directed by Herk Harvey As the classic horror movies of the Universal Monster era evolved throughout the 1930...