Wine sampling??_Katie Dieckhaus_Gottfried Duden_Fred and Lucian Dressel_T. V. Munson_Georg and Georg Muench Jr._Paul Hopen_Bill and Mary Ann Sadler_Gabe Miller_Gerard Eisterhold Gentle readers, our live Tell It Like It Was in July features Derek VanBooven, who will speak about Friedrich Muench of Dutzow. As always, this event takes place at The Harmonie, 5333 Hackmann Rd., Augusta. It’s on Tuesday, July 14. Doors open 6pm; conversation starts 6:30pm. Admission is free. Wine

Nick & Rupert_Simple Gifts_She did not like me_Game show host_Gold mine of history_Tecklenburg_Top shelf Gentle readers, it all started when I saw an ad flyer in the Boone Country Connection. It was the December 2025 issue, in which I learned of an event in Femme Osage at the old stone schoolhouse. Here, let me show it to you… How could I resist? I love stone buildings (but not stone facades ☹) …and once upon a time I was hired to repair the bell tower you see atop the scho

Augusta Branch Library_Diane Jasper Kessler_Sherman tank_St. Francis Borgia_Carol Jasper Riegel_International and Deb_Roseland Ballroom Gentle readers, sometimes things just fall into place. On the Thursday after Veterans Day (Nov. 13, 2025), I stopped at the Augusta Branch Library and noticed that the coffee clutch was still going on, so I asked the ladies what they were chatting about. Immediately, Diane Jasper Kessler handed me her cellphone which was playing a video of

Us-and-them_Anita Mallinckrodt_Walter Kamphoefner_swung from trees_met in the Peace Corps_kiss your ring?_Eden Seminary_Janet and Don Fuhr_ye olde towne painter Gentle readers, I was born in the early 1950s in Jefferson City, MO, a plenty German American town, and I was immediately baptized and raised Catholic. From my young perspective, it was always us-and-them when it came to considering the religious environment around me. Notice, I didn’t say, us-against-them. I think