Trego's Mountain Ear

This installment includes the organization of CREAM – concerned REA members.  The October 17 issue of the Mountain Ear includes the first announcement: Petition Notice The petitions now being circulated by CREAM will not, by and of themselves, remove either the trustees, the attorney, or the manager. The petitions only call for a special meeting Read more

We’ve gone through the better part of a year without a muskrat in the pond – I think old age and decrepitude took our old muskrat population out, and for a year we haven’t had any swimming around.  Now, we have a muskrat back in the pond, and I hope the population will grow again. Read more

I was thinking about 1974 – when the retail price of gas climbed above 50 cents a gallon, and our old pumps became officially obsolete.  Now, 48 years later, I expect to see gasoline at $5 per gallon.  This site Average Gas Prices in the U.S. Through History shows the price trend, and has a Read more

Daylight Saving time began in March this year (2022) and will end on the sixth of November. Depending on whether the Sunshine Protection Act becomes law, we may spring forward next March, and then, not spring back. Daylight Saving time comes out of WWI Germany, and part of the reason it has been widely adopted Read more

For most of my professional life, the English language has been a tool that I used unthinkingly, subconsciously.  It’s been good to me, good for me – and now, as a retiree on the school board, I’m consciously looking at it . . . mostly because it isn’t so easy for all the kids.  I Read more