Recently added articles from Grit:
Make time for music and dreams.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2006; ... I've always been a sucker for people who have the courage to change their lives. In this issue we have stories of several such individuals--the Ohio chiropractor who returned to music after establishing his career; the gentleman in Florida who used the tragedies of his childhood to create ...
Skating maintains popularity.
Mar 01, 2006; ... Most people today have probably seen a person on in-line skates whizzing along on the street or in a park. Or perhaps they've watched news clips featuring stunt skaters, the evolving sport of in-line hockey or in-line speed skating competitions. Whatever the exposure, in-line skating has ...
Superb joy.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... I would like to tell you just how much my daughter and I enjoy reading GRIT. It's one of the most wholesome tabloids that we have ever read. It's too bad everyone doesn't subscribe to your excellent combination ...
L'Amour question.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... I read with interest the article by Lisa Mann, Remembering Louis L'Amour, in the October issue of GRIT. Since Reese Hawkins knew Mr. L'Amour personally, it would be interesting to know just ...
School memory.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... As I was looking back over the May 2005 issue of GRIT, I reread a request in Friends & Neighbors from someone wanting a copy of the primer Dick and Jane. During the past school year, my grandson Jacob entered the first grade. He was given an assignment to interview his ...
Thanks.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Thank you for publishing my article about Joyce and Clarence Lannum in GRIT (True Grit Heroes, November). It was such a thrill for me, but being able to gain recognition for these two outstanding people was priceless. Like the old saying goes, "what goes around comes around." They have ...
Great paper.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Since my uncle, Arthur Moore from Missouri, introduced me to GRIT a few years ago, I get excited expecting it in my mailbox each month. In my 71 years, I have never read a paper quite so healthy ...
Grit newsboy.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... I am 84 years old, and in the late 1920s and early '30s, I sold GRIT in the small town of Glencoe, Okla. What I now consider to be interesting about my experience is that the weekly bundle of GRIT was not sent by mail but rather came on the ...
Book provides special hug for grandma.(BOOK CHAT)
Mar 01, 2006; ... It took all of one story in Chicken Soup for the Grandma's Soul to start the tears flowing. It never fails with this well-known, and well-loved, series of books. And this particular edition is no exception to my Chicken Soup rule--I start the book at my own peril, with a handful of tissues ...
Song confusion.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Who is the correct songwriter for the song Beyond the Sunset? The hymnal I have shows that Josephine Pollard and W.O. Perkins wrote it. But, in my October GRIT, there is a letter from Joyce Anne Munn in Watts, Okla., which states that Virgil P. Brock and Blanche Kerr Brock wrote it alter ...
Clayton's crew.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... I received a copy of GRIT with my story (True Grit Heroes, November 2005). Thank you for sending it to me. I must say it is a great blessing to be honored by your publication. We are just gearing up for the holiday season as I write this. Our goal this year is 100 brand new ...
Newsstand.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... I like to take my time reading GRIT, so I used to have more than one issue strewn around my living room. Thanks to a yard-sale gift from a friend, I now stack those issues in my GRIT newsstand. I wish I knew the stand's history. It is well constructed and has a wooden locked box ...
Cush agreement.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... In the October issue, there was a Mail Call letter from Mildred Makki, in which she stated that cush was just stuffing without the chicken. I agree. As to the origin of the recipe and its name, I am guessing that it came to us from the Old World, maybe Scotland. I've lived in ...
Memory of father.(MAIL CALL)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... My granddaughter's school parent-teacher organization sells magazine subscriptions to raise money for the school. This year, she ordered Gait for me. I don't remember ever reading this magazine from cover to cover as I did the first issue. It brought back a memory that I would like to ...
When children fell ill, Mama was the doctor.(LOOKING BACK)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Mama was not a trained doctor, but doctoring was thrust upon her as part of her role as pioneer wife and mother. In her former life, as the sheltered daughter of a prosperous farm family, she had been known to faint at the sight of blood. That all changed when, in the early ...
Queen of the Roadsides.(LOOKING BACK)(Poem)
Mar 01, 2006; ... <Pre> Queen of the Roadsides She reigns along the bywaysThrough summer into fallTo share her royal beautyWith travelers one and all,Arrayed in lacy garments,Her Designer known worldwide,Created in her splendorTo adorn the countryside....
Are your children bored with breakfast?(GRIT POTLUCK)
Mar 01, 2006; ... When children push breakfast aside, there is usually one reason--boredom. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lack of time is the main reason parents serve uninspired breakfasts. But it is a real problem when youngsters grab junk food and head out the door. Fortunately, it's a ...
Friends & neighbors.
Mar 01, 2006 ... Does anyone know where I can get information about the item in the photograph at right? It is a 16-inch-by-6 1/2-inch metal carrying case marked "20th Century Fox" and contains three reels of Laurel and Hardy films. Ruby Frichtl 37359 N. Santiam Highway Gates, OR ...
The main thing in Maine is lobster.
Mar 01, 2006; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BELFAST, MAINE -- Have you ever wondered who had the nerve to eat the first lobster? The best way to find the answer is to visit Maine. Belfast, Maine, known as the capital of lobster fishing, is a small town of 6;300 along the shore ...
Cabbage adds flavor and nutrition.(RECIPE BOX)(Recipe)
Mar 01, 2006; ... It doesn't have a stellar reputation, but cabbage is actually good for us. Chock full of nutrition, cabbage--in its raw state--provides iron, calcium, potassium, and vitamins C, B1, B2, B3 and D. Since it loses some of the nutritional value when cooked, particularly for long periods of ...