By BILL DUNCAN Elder Stateman
I have a sweatshirt that my son, Jack and his wife, Alisa, gave to me one Christmas with the saying. "So Many Books, So Little Time." It is such a favorite piece of clothing of mine that I have literally worn off [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
The calendar has just a few days left for 2006. On Monday, we will be celebrating the New Year, 2007. You can bet from my Scottish heritage I will be singing "Auld Lang Syne," at the stroke of midnight.
Written by Robert Burns in 1741, the [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
(Note: This column was first printed in December 1990. It has become a classic Christmas column for Bill Duncan and although altered somewhat from the original, it is still the same Christmas story.)
Some years ago my eldest son, John, gave his mother an angel to top the Christmas [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Chances are you never heard of Morrill Worcester.
I’d like to introduce you to this man from Harrington, Maine because he understands the true meaning of Christmas — giving.
If this time of the year you visited Arlington National Cemetery you would discover an amazing sight — [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy –the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those words were spoken on Dec. 8, 65 years ago, as [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
It will mean digging into a dusty, overcrowded half of the garage for the decorations and moving furniture out of the living room, but I dare not suggest that this year we skip the traditional Christmas tree. I haven’t be able to play Scrooge in [...]
