| 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 31 |
Many of the students in my recreational le... |
| December 24 |
Seventy-some years ago I thought I was sor... |
| December 17 |
On a sultry July afternoon, my husband, Ch... |
| December 10 |
My good friend Helen Vemer told me about t... |
| November 26 |
If Granny’s Notes is full of grammatical ... |
| November 19 |
When the poet Thomas Grey wrote “Elegy Wr... |
| November 12 |
One of my favorite things to do on Saturda... |
| November 5 |
During World War II, my husband, Chub, was... |
| October 29 |
Best Halloween costumes
About this ... |
| October 22 |
We had climbed the steep hill to the youth... |
| October 15 |
Nancy was about 11 when she wanted a hive ... |
| October 8 |
It’s exactly 45 steps from the carport to... |
| October 1 |
When I gave a day-long demonstration of po... |
| September 24 |
A stonemason was building a new blacksmith... |
| September 17 |
The March 1959 issue of Ebony magazine gav... |
| September 10 |
When we bought a worn out farm for less th... |
| September 3 |
In the early 1950s we considered buying a ... |
| August 27 |
Our Walter Eugene spent his own money for ... |
| August 20 |
In the days when downtown Columbia was all... |
| August 13 |
Two things I remember from early childhood... |
| August 6 |
In 1914, farmers were restless because the... |
| July 30 |
In 1886, Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia s... |
| July 23 |
Two unanswered questions stirred my intere... |
| July 16 |
Thirty years ago this week Nancy, Walt, Ba... |
| July 9 |
It’s a cool summer evening, and I’m shif... |
| July 2 |
Dad and a teenage boy were hoeing corn in ... |
| June 25 |
Uncle Dave Valentine used to fend off ques... |
| June 18 |
There wasn’t much national or world news ... |
| June 11 |
A college student, trying to explain recre... |
| June 4 |
An early atlas of Boone County shows the l... |
| May 28 |
Our son, Walt, insisted that Chub and I sh... |
| May 21 |
At about age 24 I discovered that mushroom... |
| May 14 |
In the 17th century, when people courageou... |
| May 7 |
During World War ~II the U.S. Coast Guard ... |
| April 30 |
Uncle Archie Gerard came for a week’s vis... |
| April 23 |
~Twenty-five cents worth of fishing equipm... |
| April 16 |
~Allowance was not in our vocabulary when ... |
| April 9 |
Photographers seeking to make that one sho... |
| April 2 |
A favorite way to spend Sunday afternoon i... |
| March 26 |
In the 1930s, there were three high school... |
| March 19 |
“Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of k... |
| March 12 |
My favorite bumper sticker is the one, see... |
| March 5 |
When we wanted to help our two grade-schoo... |
| February 27 |
Two instructors at Christian College get t... |
| February 20 |
Paula was one of the seven Christian Colle... |
| February 13 |
The first settlement in this area was a cl... |
| February 6 |
In my youth, butchering had to be done dur... |
| January 30 |
When I taught a class called Recreational ... |
| January 23 |
The youngsters got off the school bus and ... |
| January 16 |
One Sunday, several of us bicycled to a sp... |
| January 9 |
Our rural telephone “ring” was one lon... |
| January 2 |
“Teachers change our lives. If they don’... |
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