Partial to Home: Nancy M. Imes, 1928-2021
Nancy McClanahan Imes, a lifelong resident of Columbus known for her over-sized personality, support of charitable causes, marriage to businessman and Dispatch publisher Birney Imes Jr. and, in her later years, the realization of a sumptuous French country-style home in the Prairie, died Thursday afternoon. She was 92.
Partial to Home: A woman’s best friend
About this time last year, Jannette Adams had a crippling case of the COVID blues. She felt lonely and adrift.
Partial to Home: From bleak to beautiful
This past week, a friend, who is a lover of trees, butterflies, hummingbirds and all things in the natural world, asked if I knew anything about the live oaks lining Airline Road near the Humane Society.
Partial to Home: Reconnecting with old friends
On long ago summer evenings when the kids were small, I would take them and their friends to the front campus of The W to play freeze tag.
Partial to Home: Predawn preparations
At 5:30 a.m. the only light in the backyard is the soft, red glow of the greenhouse.
Partial to Home: Small-town boys
One of the pleasures of living near downtown is the variety of options the walker has just outside his or her front door, i.e. The Riverwalk and/or soccer park, MUW campus, Friendship Cemetery.
Partial to Home: Streetcar
If there was ever a time to haul out the Christmas lights, this is the year.
Partial to Home: Confessions of a leaf thief
Gardeners can be a notoriously parsimonious lot.
Partial to Home: Taking good care
For his service to his country in Vietnam, he was spit upon and called a “baby killer.” For his devotion to his Southern wife, he was reviled by his mother-in-law as a “damn Yankee.”
Partial to Home: Idle remark opens floodgates of memory
Not too long ago, someone said to me, “You always were a little off-center.” Later that day I was going to be driving a tractor and was dressed for the part in patched work pants and a rumpled cotton shirt. Though attire is what evoked the comment and his tone friendly, I suspect the fellow’s assessment wasn’t limited to my sartorial choices.
Partial to Home: Trash retrieval outing offers unexpected delights
What’s the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery? A friend asked me this question Friday, and I, a lifelong habitue of burial places, large and small, had no idea.
Partial to Home: Persimmons and possums
“Opossums in particular enjoy persimmon fruit and may be seen foraging in your tree at night. While opossums do not typically cause damage to structures
Partial to Home: Under a watermelon sky
About a week ago, in the waning days of August, Gerry Jeffcoat gave me a watermelon he’d grown. A Congo Red, he said when asked the variety.
Partial to Home: A perfect day
On the morning of my birthday this past week, I took my coffee outside and found my usual seat in a garden overlooking the street.
Partial to Home: Of opossums and other critters we love
Near the end of the podcast, Gail from West Point called to tell about taking a can of potted meat re-labeled as opossum road kill with her to the Air Force Academy.
Partial to Home: Tangerine dream
How slowly can you eat a tangerine?
Partial to Home: A boon and gentle tonic
Advice, insight and inspiration from a variety of sources.
Partial to Home: After a half century in the North, home
It was one of those glad-you-are-alive-and-out-in-the-world Saturday afternoons — sunny, bright, crisp and clear — and I was sitting in the three-sided shed that is the in-house dining facility of Brother’s Keeper Barbecue.
Partial to Home: A crazy animal for Paul Thorn
Chances are if you’ve paid any attention to the music scene in these parts, you know the name Paul Thorn.
Partial to Home: Tennessee Williams comes to visit
On the front page of the May 9, 1952, edition of this newspaper, a page that has stripped across the bottom: “Week’s best slogan: We’ll get more done if we work together,” is a story about Tennessee Williams’ visit to Columbus. This was the playwright’s first time back in his birthplace, according to the article, since he was 3 years old.