All families have legends. The Osborne family is no exception. One of ours is how a woman and a man living many miles apart came to meet, to marry and to have 13 children. It was the mid-1850s, and teenager Mina Graves lived on her parents’ farm bordering the Petitcodiac River near Moncton, NB, Canada. … More A Pettitcoat on the Petitcodiac
A SHORT SHORT STORY: Internationally celebrated violinist Yi-Jai Susanne Hou tells this story about how one person reacted when informed she’d been granted the use of a $6 million Stradivarius violin. Susanne told an audience recently she was in the middle of recording her latest CD when the loan agreement expired on an earlier premium … More The $6 Million Chrysler
Our friend Ken Hagerman was an unrepentant practical joker. After visiting a friend’s home, the hosts would find pictures upside down, their bed short-sheeted or pebbles in the toes of their shoes — or all three. He just couldn’t resist. But to his credit, Ken also enjoyed practical jokes played on him. Perhaps not quite as much, … More How (Not) To Shrinkwrap a Cottage
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