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Peggy Keener: America’s first house … that white one
Toward the end of the War of 1812, when James Madison was president, the British burned “our house” to the ground. The building was already ...
Peggy Keener, Author at Austin Daily Herald
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Peggy Keener: The inexplicable Easter Bunny
Please read to the end. We would agree, without question, that Easter is a deeply religious holiday, but would we also concur that it is, ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, April 5, 2024 5:21 pm
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Peggy Keener: A caste system of a different kind
I recently finished reading the book “Caste – The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson. It is a book all Americans should read; a ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, March 22, 2024 5:47 pm
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Peggy Keener: Loved by all; a true American gem
Test. Who is this? Born in 1927. Wrote over four-thousand newspaper columns and fifteen books, most of which became bestsellers. The columns were read by ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, March 8, 2024 5:10 pm
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Peggy Keener: The truth about those teeth – an abiding mystery
It seems only fitting that after devoting an entire column to Martha Washington—as I did recently—that I should dedicate equal time to George. After all, ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, February 23, 2024 5:25 pm
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Peggy Keener: The very first and possibly the very best
Martha Dandridge was a teenager when she accepted a marriage proposal from Daniel Parke Curtis. He was twenty years older than Martha and a life-long ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, February 9, 2024 5:47 pm
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Peggy Keener: Koda – the epitome of serene grandeur
As some of you know, in May Glen and I moved to a retirement community in Edina. Here I write a weekly biography of one ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, January 26, 2024 5:11 pm
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Peggy Keener: Benumbed black bear brings big bucks
The time has run out for all truth seekers everywhere to come clean. Here’s the question. When you were a child, did you or did ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, January 19, 2024 5:57 pm
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Peggy Keener: The very wisest of the wise
Oh, the wisdom of mothers. Mother’s everywhere! Short, tall, skinny, chubby, wrinkly, not so wrinkly and every Crayola color. They know so much. At least ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, January 12, 2024 5:31 pm
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Peggy Keener: Universal friend to man and beast
“Come on down!” Over the years these iconic words were ubiquitously shouted by Bob Barker, the host of the longest running game show in American ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, December 29, 2023 5:40 pm
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Peggy Keener: Our jump into a welcoming net
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a great 19th Century philosopher, once proclaimed, “Jump and the net will appear.” Glen and I took that to heart this ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, December 15, 2023 5:13 pm
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Peggy Keener: Cat tales (tails?) confidential
A while back I wrote a column about America’s love of the PB and J. Some time later I received a note from my son, ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, December 1, 2023 5:31 pm
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Peggy Keener: Finding your true eye-dentity
Would you find it particularly weird if someone …. a friend, mate, cousin, enemy …. looked at you up close and declared, “I think you’d ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, November 17, 2023 6:02 pm
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Peggy Keener: Ode to the unlovable garter belt
Who in a million bejillion years would have ever guessed that a pregnancy would be the inspiration for the invention of the pantyhose? But, it’s ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, November 3, 2023 5:11 pm
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Peggy Keener: Snap, crackle and crunch
You’re thinking Rice Krispies, right? And, you would be mistaken. Here’s a hint: In the U.S. on Super Bowl game day, an estimated 11.2 million ...