Ledger-Enquirer.com: Living

Young Pine Mountain farmers promote sustainable agriculture

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:19 EST

Across America, many of the small-scale farms that once fed the country have been replaced by mega-sized monoculture farms with a single crop growing in all directions, as far as the eye can see.

Strings for kids

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:06 EST

Marjorie Newman watched the 1999 movie, “Music of the Heart,” which is the true story of Roberta Guaspari, who started a string program in Harlem. “If they can do that in New York City, we can do that in Columbus,” Newman said at Wynnton Academy.

Make a comforting pasta meal

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:25 EDT

Dennis Nuehring, the resident chef at Columbus Cooks, is a native of South Bend, Ind., and went to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, Ill. He has worked at the University Club of Chicago, was the general manager of the Nordstrom Cafe in Atlanta and worked for various Atlanta caterers.

Church+money

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:58 EDT

A few items were missing from the table.

Jennifer Holliday to sing Sunday in Columbus

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:53 EDT

Two-time Grammy Award singer and actress Jennifer Holliday will be the keynoter for "Heart to Heart" -- part-revival service, part concert -- at 6 p.m. Sunday at St. John AME Church. She and the Rev. Debora Grant, St. John's pastor, met through mutual friends about a dozen years ago.

Camo for chemo

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:45 EDT

When Cookie Aftergut was treated for breast cancer five years ago, she didn’t have ready access to information outside of her drug and radiation therapies — information such as sound nutrition, exercise, makeup and scalp care for when her hair fell out.

Second annual Midtown event benefits Wynnton Neighborhood Network

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:50 EDT

Charlie Snipes began having what would become nine months of back pain in the summer of 2006, with continual numbness in one leg. It hurt to walk. His doctor told him he needed surgery. He'd had back surgery before, so Snipes wasn't keen on the idea of another operation. It would repair two herniated discs.

An excerpt from chapter 3

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:59 EDT

PEOPLE HAD ALWAYS CALLED Phenix City wicked. Or Sin City. For those of us who lived and worked outside the rackets, we tried our best to ignore it. But it was hard when most of the vice boasted services in neon down by the river, on the way to the only two bridges out of town. But we had schools and a hospital paid for in dirty money, and sometimes big-time poker chips would end up in the collection plates on Sunday. My son and daughter went to school and church with sons and daughters of bootleggers, pimps, and whores. Bert Fuller was a deacon, and Hoyt Shepherd, who most called the town’s kingpin, sometimes sang in the Christmas pageant and liked to play the part of the innkeeper who turned away Mary and Joseph. It was just an engrained part of our local economy, and the vice had gone on so long, it was very much like a strand of barbed wire that cuts a tree but is later absorbed, becoming part of its growth. Until that June, I guess I didn’t even know how deeply that wire cut. But there were things I learned, the darkest of moral depravity that went far beyond slot machines and illegal liquor that I still can’t wash from my mind.

Black, white churches merge to become The Bridge

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:48 EDT

During a 50-year period in the 1800s, a former slave named Horace King was the most respected bridge builder in this part of the country. His work literally covers nearly every crossing of the Chattahoochee River to Fort Gaines, including the 14th Street pedestrian bridge named for him.

Deli Day: Temple Israel brings food lovers and friends together for a spring tradition

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:57 EDT

The sacred and the profane meet again Thursday.

ANTagonism

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:25 EDT

Pushing the key into the lock after a weekend in Atlantic City, Judy Marshall had the typical passing worries. Is my cat alright?

Scientists explain progression of baby talk

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:08 EDT

WASHINGTON — It’s called the ‘‘word spurt,’’ that magical time when a toddler’s vocabulary explodes, seemingly overnight. New research offers a decidedly un-magical explanation: Babies start really jabbering after they’ve mastered enough easy words to tackle more of the harder ones. It’s essentially a snowball effect.

Dads struggle to survive daughters' dating years

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:24 EDT

A word of advice for aspiring Casanovas — when meeting a girl's father, a handshake is never just a handshake.