Nostalgia

Seeing a modern flat-screen television on display reminded me of our family’s first TV set. Daddy bought a secondhand GE table model, with a 10-inch screen, in 1951. What a marvel of modern electronic technology.

Tina Turner, icon of soul, R&B and pop music, died Tuesday at 83 after a long illness.

I was playing in a summer basketball league, on a pretty good team consisting of mostly former college players. We entered our team in the Duckworth Basketball Tournament, which was held each year at Thaddeus Stevens State School of Technology (now Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology).

It arrived at the office every Christmas, a golden tin filled with several pounds of dark and milk chocolate. The first time it came, we commented about the candies’ odd shape: What was this “kiss”-like treat from Pennsylvania?

It’s the fall of 1968. I’m 14 years of age, living by Franklin & Marshall College.

Since 1963, Dutch Wonderland has been a mainstay of Lancaster County tourism and a landmark of Lincoln Highway East.

It was August 1958 when my husband, Don, was ready to attend Lancaster School of the Bible to study for the ministry. He had worked the year before at Hanover General Hospital to get enough money to go to school and the time it finally arrive.

Memorial Day weekend in 1973, I was stuck at the neighborhood parade wishing I were in New York City. Carole King was giving a free concert on the Great Lawn of Central Park — a gift to her fans, her chance to “give back a little bit” to the city and its residents that had given her so much,…

Until I was 7, my family lived in the foothills of the Conococheague Mountain. This is a long and narrow mountain, located in the far western corner of Perry County. The highest point on the mountain is a summit known as Round Top.

I retired at the end of 2018 and a few months later purchased a late-model Corvette.

I lived in West Reading when I was young, although these facts are probably typical of other locations. We did our food shopping at mom-and-pop grocery stores. In fact there was one about a half block from home, where my grandfather was a clerk.