I received an invitation to time travel last month and of course I jumped at the chance. For several years now, Judy Sigmon and I have portrayed 1840s herbalists during the fall festival at Hart Square, Dr. Robert Hart’s complex of log cabins. It’s the largest collection of original historic log buildings in the United States and it’s right here …
April, A gardener’s clean slate
If you’re a gardener, you know the siren call of bedding plants and seed packets from the neighborhood garden center. Buy me! Plant me! And if you’re like me, you give in because you believe the colorful posters. You picture in a wide-brimmed hat in a weed-free garden, holding more produce to feed a small army. April is the gardener’s …