Beluthahatchie

There was an old episode of the radio horror series Lights Out titled "A Day at the Dentist's," written by Arch Oboler. Step...

"It was my hand that took those precious lights out of this ole dark world." -- From the confession handwritten by serial killer D...

A recent headline in the Cumberland (Md.) Times-News: "Teenagers found with Molotov cocktails." My surprise is not, alas, that two...

Tonight we had 104 trick-or-treaters, a personal best for the Duncan household. (Trick-or-treaters are among the things I obsessively count...

It’s good, on the eve of Halloween, to reflect that I now live in the state where Edgar Allan Poe is buried -- in the old Westminster Hall c...

On Route 36 south of Lonaconing, Md., on George’s Creek, sits the old mining community of Nikep. Or is it Pekin? How this community came t...

Soon after Sydney and I moved to western Maryland this summer, we discovered scenic U.S. 40 through Garrett County – not the U.S. 40 that sh...

The stream is Sand Spring Run, which courses through the arboretum on the Frostburg State University campus. The upstream and downstream pho...

Our daily walk to campus involves a wooded shortcut that we call the Bear Path, because bears occasionally forage through these woods in sea...

It's on Route 28 in Springfield, W.Va.

We're still unpacking, of course, as we just moved in June, and the most recent box I unearthed demonstrates that the more boxes Sydney ...

We passed this car today on northbound I-81 in Virginia.

According to a flier we picked up in an I-81 convenience store today, this year's big Halloween attraction at Professor Cline's Haun...

In our daily conversation, Sydney and I often fall back on lines from movies -- usually for a laugh, sometimes just because they're so h...

Just as Sydney pressed Rabbit Hill into my hands when she found out I never read it, so I pressed Little Toot into her hands when she said...

The next time a music buff mentions the Rolling Stones' remarkable 44-year history as a band, say, "Ah, that's nothing. How a...

Saturday, Sydney and I attended -- and much enjoyed -- the first Appalachian Festival at Frostburg State University. As much of it took pla...

Sydney's mother, Fran Bowling, and Sydney's Aunt Charlotte Sartin both raise monarch butterfies , a good habit they acquired in the ...