Doris Hogan of Pacolet decided to spend her time in quarantine on a labor of love, never imagining just how far it would reach. Hogan, who will celebrate her 90th birthday on Dec. 17, has spent the ...

September is a busy month for birthdays and celebrations in our farm family. Not only did my parents celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary Saturday, both my sisters also started this month with ...

ARCOLA -- The irony of her childhood disinterest in dolls, in general, was not lost on the granddaughter of Johnny Gruelle, the Arcola native who created the Raggedy Ann doll, as she attended the ...

I admit that I chose this week’s column topic in part for the nostalgia and in part due to the fun that the internet is having over the recent travels of the purportedly haunted doll, Annabelle, that ...

I was shocked to discover that my granddaughters, ages 13, 11 and 9, have no idea about the Raggedy Ann doll. Her name was in a story that one of them was reading, and she asked about the doll. I must ...