Category: John McDonald

By John McDonald I got a Christmas card the other day from some distant relatives up-country. The way I look at it, any relative you…

By John McDonald We’ve all heard the complaints from folks — mostly those from away– about life in small towns. These people go on as…

By John McDonald The other day I was out in the barn looking over some abandoned gifts from Christmases past, and I began to wonder…

By John McDonald This may be the kind of useless information only a radio talk-show host like me would love, but did you know Maine…

By John McDonald From the time their folks died, Roscoe and Harold Cushman lived quietly in a camp on the family woodlot about 12 miles…

By John McDonald The older folks back home like to tell the story about the first motorcycle ever seen in their quiet Down East town….

By John McDonald If I were to make a list of the top-ten things we need to make the world a better place, self-driving cars…

By John McDonald We haven’t done any stretching exercises lately by reaching across the desk and into our neat, but not overly ostentatious, mailbag. So…

By John McDonald I remember the days when you had to go to the bank to do your banking. What ever happened to those days?…

By John McDonald Every year it’s the same thing. Soon after the kids go back to school and the summer complaints go back to wherever…