Peggy Keener, Author at Austin Daily Herald

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Peggy Keener: Letting Go

Every month, Martin’s parents embarked on a journey to visit grandma, returning home on the same train the following evening. One day the young son ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, July 19, 2024 5:09 pm

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Peggy Keener: The life (and death) of a bombshell

Born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926, Norma Jean Mortenson Baker began her life as an orphan. Through sheer determination, however, she turned herself ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Tuesday, July 9, 2024 5:31 pm

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Peggy Keener: Things you need to know

Hear Ye, Hear Ye ! It’s time for all the news that’s fit to print as comes to us through ‘‘The Week” magazine. ••• The ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, May 31, 2024 5:15 pm

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Peggy Keener: Rub-a-dub-dub

Question: what has a shiny corrugated two-sided metal plate framed in wood? Everyone of our mothers had one. Heck, everyone of us probably had one. ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, May 17, 2024 5:27 pm

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Peggy Keener: The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence

I want to share with you the life of someone who it would be fair to say, we all admired … and even loved. This ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, May 3, 2024 5:25 pm

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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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, April 19, 2024 5:21 pm

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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, ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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, ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, December 29, 2023 5:40 pm

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