Jo-Ann Boepple
Some revelations instead of reflections
This week is not about reflections.
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Jo-Ann Boepple
What should Edwardsburg drop on New Year’s Eve?
For many years staying up to watch the ball drop in Times Square, New York on New Year’s Eve has been a ritual in our ...
by joannboepple, Thursday, January 8, 2015 3:38 pm
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Memories of Christmas holidays of the past
If you have any doubt about which is our favorite holiday all you have to do is look around our house.
by joannboepple, Thursday, December 18, 2014 3:34 pm
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Count your blessings before moving into the new year
After counting my blessings for the last couple of weeks and as we get near the end of the 2014, the new year looms around ...
by joannboepple, Thursday, December 11, 2014 3:10 pm
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A few more people to be thankful for
Last week, two important groups were left out of the thankful list.
by joannboepple, Thursday, December 4, 2014 3:40 pm
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The 1950s were big years for television
The 1950s were big years for television.
by joannboepple, Thursday, November 13, 2014 11:43 am
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Have you seen the Christmas decorations in the stores already?
by joannboepple, Thursday, November 6, 2014 3:19 pm
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The good, the bad and the ugly of the 1950s
The Good the Bad and the Ugly of the 1950s.
by joannboepple, Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:46 pm
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Do you remember Pyrex?
I imagine that everyone over the of age of 60 has one of these dishware pieces in their kitchen.
by joannboepple, Thursday, October 16, 2014 2:55 pm
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The things that have disappeared from the table
The butter knife has gone the way of the saucer. In the nursery rhyme “it’s the dish that ran away with the spoon,” but in ...
by joannboepple, Thursday, October 9, 2014 9:26 am
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Setting a 1950s table
When the new display of the 1950s was designed at the Edwardsburg Museum, there was much discussion about table setting.
by joannboepple, Thursday, October 2, 2014 2:30 pm
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Elvis at Edwardsburg History Museum Sunday
Elvis is coming to Edwardsburg and the Edwardsburg History Museum.
by joannboepple, Friday, September 19, 2014 8:52 am
Columns
The good old days of jingles
In the 1950s before electronic gadgets took over our lives there was only the radio and television. With our eyes glued to every program on ...
by joannboepple, Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:35 am
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Popular 50s food items we still eat today
We have pretty well covered what was on a kitchen counter in the 1950s.
by joannboepple, Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:24 pm
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Nifty Fifties on display at museum next month
For the past few weeks I have been writing about the 1950s, things that I remember from my mother’s house and mine. The reason for ...
by joannboepple, Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:28 pm
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Cool weather means hot cocoa
When the weather turns a little cooler my thoughts turn to sweaters, soups and drinks.
by joannboepple, Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:45 pm
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Former kitchen staple was in every home
In the 1950s nearly every home in the United States had one of these in their kitchen.
by joannboepple, Thursday, July 24, 2014 3:19 pm
Columns
Hairstyle trends in the 1950s
The 1950s had a great influence on fashion and hairstyles. Very short cropped hairstyles for women took over the early ‘50s but by the middle ...
by joannboepple, Thursday, July 17, 2014 9:32 am
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Potato chips were invented by accident
I’ll bet you didn’t know that the potato chip was invented 161 years ago in 1853.
by joannboepple, Thursday, July 10, 2014 2:09 pm
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Significant medical improvements came during the ‘50s
The 1950s produced many significant medical improvements.
by joannboepple, Thursday, July 3, 2014 3:46 pm
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The creed women lived by in the ‘50s
Over the last few months this column has been reviewing items and events of the 1950s.
by joannboepple, Thursday, June 26, 2014 3:06 pm
Edwardsburg
Some 1950s gadgets are still in use
At the beginning of the 1950s the imagination of inventors was awakened.
by joannboepple, Thursday, June 5, 2014 12:32 pm
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Normandy landing featured at museum
Planning for the Normandy landings began in 1943.
by joannboepple, Thursday, May 29, 2014 2:46 pm
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Television struggled for mass attention
Television struggled to become a national mass media in the 1950s.
by joannboepple, Friday, May 9, 2014 4:04 pm
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TV catches people’s fancy in the 1950s
The decade of the 1950s is also known as “The Golden Age of Television.”
