By DAVID JOHNS
By JOE BARATY
You’d think that wearing a mask would somehow stifle my face’s ability to wordlessly communicate. Nope and apparently, not even with strangers…
During the last three years of writing this column, I’ve written first and foremost on behalf of the library. Sometimes I’ve added my opinions…
In Matthew chapter 16, we read a familiar passage connected to building the church: “Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of he…
A couple weeks ago I broached the idea of a tag along offer to all my readers. The idea of you inviting me to capture your outdoor wild advent…
Consider the colors, which represent the Republican party (red) and the Democratic party (blue). What if people came together and formed a new…
It seems like there are plenty of hard times going around. So, we talked about that in church last week. How can we hang in there and deal wit…
Telephones have always played a role in achieving success as a photojournalist on deadline--even predating the cellphone that allows everyone …
The morning forecast showed warm temperatures, low humidity and zero chance of precipitation. That combined rarity for Franklin County had me …
Our society has been filled with conflict over the last weeks. In many ways this conflict has been building for some time. Over an eight-week …
Franklin County is home to two prominent figures from American history: Booker Taliaferro Washington and Jubal Anderson Early. Both of these m…
By now you know that when it comes to outdoor destinations I have a penchant, if not a fixation, for what I call “hidden gems.” I’ve never bee…
I want to focus on joy. It would be simplistic to say, “You need to have more joy in your life” or “Just choose joy” without explaining how on…
By David Johns
I’m a bit surprised when the hotel clerk asks me if I like my in-laws. I tell her I do, but that there are always differences in every family.…
Please enjoy this previously published column from 2004 while I am away from the office.
I can just imagine what that great orator and the founder of the Civil Rights Movement might be saying today. It could have been “I tried.” He…
By Gene E. Herrick
It seems that our hot summer weather has finally come upon us and it will be a welcomed change. The Noahic Flooding has come to an end and the…
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My 8-year-old daughter has been begging for a cat for years. Let me just say that I had never been persuaded by any of her arguments. I though…
By Christine Arena
One of my favorite quotes comes from the great physicist Marie Curie, who said, “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.…
Greetings! It is my joy to begin writing a monthly column for the Franklin News-Post. My wife, Helen, and I just celebrated our third annivers…
Any avid bird watcher will tell you that every season of the year delivers something special from these delightful little creatures. Early spr…
For more than thirty years I’ve hauled trash to the Grassy Hill dumpsters. Remember those early dumpsters? Those with sliding metal doors, you…
One of my favorite “wild” tales is a weekend trip I took several years ago to Pisgah National Forest of North Carolina.
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