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 vid

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 th

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Rev. Doyle_Donna Ruether Hellebusch_Franz Krekel_Giessen Society_Howmet Aerospace_twin spires

Gentle readers, neither I, nor any of my relatives, ever worked for the MK&T rail system. What’s more, I was never even a passenger on what was affectionately known as the Katy. And yet I feel a certain affiliation with, and even affection for, that railway.

Bob Marstall_St. Vincent de Paul Church_Dan Mudd_Tom Marstall_cholera_Washington Monument Co._Blumenhof Winery

FRESH Renewal Center_Maryville University_Mel Fuhr_Jerry Aholt_Lee Newman_God of the Wind_Rennard Backhaus_Frank Schwaiger, Jr._I am an aberration-A. E. Housman 

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TILIW - Dennis Nadler part 2 - Leonard - Roberta - Oscar and his cello – Kevin – Bernie – Genuine Stradivarius, 1720? – carried it under his

Town fixtures – Sam and Kaeko blowing glass - friends, Augustans, countrymen – Dennis Nadler – Jackie (Gerdiman) Nadler – August and...

Gentle readers, what does Klondike Park, located a few miles east of Augusta, mean to you?

TILIW   Bank Vault to Burial Vault – Angela Stephens – Bob Brail – Bank of Augusta – the Town Painter emeritus   Gentle readers ,...

The Buddhists Are Coming – my buddy, Paul - lotus flower - Herbie Hancock’s sidemen – Tina Turner – Monastic Deep Reflection...

Tell It Like It Was – Roy Jentzsch - The Day the Tornado Struck Our Farm in 1949 Gentle readers, on a few occasions, some of you have...

Fighting For A Free Missouri Gentle readers, it’s a cold, rainy Sunday afternoon up here on Duke ridge, and I’m drying tomatoes that...

Tell It Like It Was - Roy Jentzsch - Ponde-Rosa-Lakes – a floating swimming pool? – Delco plant down in the basement – the sawmill – a...

Adapted from the email letter sent by Paul Ovaitt (paulO) on September 7, 2023 TILIW – Digging Up Bones - A lynching in Augusta –...

Adapted from the original letter from paulO sent on October 2, 2023 TILIW - Tom Rueschhoff/ Immaculate Conception conclusion – compulsive...

Adapted from the original email letter sent by Paul Ovaitt on August 2, 2023 Tom Rueschhoff, Part III – When I learned to curse – Paul...