| Welcome to the online "Granny's Notes" archive. This collection contains all of Sue Gerard's stories from her weekly column in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Please browse the list below to read her stories.
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| December 26 |
We were living in a tiny two-room apartmen... |
| December 19 |
Dad and the hired men milked 15 or 20 cows... |
| December 12 |
Chub and I have had our share of ups and d... |
| December 5 |
Eight of us were at Canterbury Cathedral, ... |
| November 28 |
It was early winter in 1943, and Chub had ... |
| November 21 |
Four of us were working on an itinerary fo... |
| November 14 |
The extension of East Broadway, which is n... |
| November 7 |
My husband, Chub, spent a bleak, windy win... |
| October 31 |
“Thank you, Miss Eva Johnston” -- my L... |
| October 24 |
There seems to be no written record of how... |
| October 17 |
When I was teaching a class called “Recre... |
| October 10 |
This is one of those October mornings. The... |
| October 3 |
A solo violinist who plays regularly for t... |
| September 26 |
The first meeting of American natives and ... |
| September 19 |
At a Chicago meeting in 1963, I was talkin... |
| September 12 |
From early school days, three pictures sta... |
| August 29 |
Uncle Manuel bought ice skates out of seas... |
| August 22 |
A little Columbia girl stood by her father... |
| August 15 |
I used to think that if I dug in the dirt ... |
| August 8 |
When we bought “Whip-Poor-Will Hill” f... |
| August 1 |
In 1944, Chub was in the Coast Guard, teac... |
| July 25 |
Before Columbia was Columbia, it was Smith... |
| July 18 |
Dad gave me a whole half dollar when we we... |
| July 11 |
For 41 years we’ve enjoyed our inexpensiv... |
| June 27 |
On this warm June day, I’m looking throug... |
| June 20 |
In 1966, the British tourist bureau in New... |
| June 13 |
My college student was trying to define “... |
| June 6 |
Peggy was a farm girl who liked to square ... |
| May 30 |
Last Tuesday, I told about some experience... |
| May 23 |
In 1968 I was granted a semester’s sabbat... |
| May 16 |
The mother of one of my girlfriend chums w... |
| May 9 |
My grandfather, James Henry, and his famil... |
| May 2 |
When my mother passed away in 1937, Dad lo... |
| April 25 |
We miss a lot of fun in these days of comp... |
| April 18 |
A few years ago there was a legal battle t... |
| April 11 |
Repairing water gaps and building fences g... |
| April 4 |
Think back to the early 1920s. If you can... |
| March 28 |
When Nancy was 13 and Walt was 11, several... |
| March 21 |
It’s hard to imagine not having switches ... |
| March 14 |
Ann Clarke came to America to learn; she w... |
| March 7 |
When the editor of Ebony magazine spoke at... |
| February 28 |
When our family of four camped in Newfound... |
| February 21 |
When segregation and integration were ever... |
| February 14 |
Joe Garity was walking through Missouri to... |
| February 7 |
My brother and I were toddlers when dad an... |
| January 31 |
The recent record-breaking snow storm that... |
| January 24 |
Skating on natural ice under a diamond-stu... |
| January 17 |
Let your imagination wander as we pretend ... |
| January 10 |
Late summer, 1960
Walt and Nancy ar... |
| January 3 |
Huge flakes of snow tumbled slowly in fron... |
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