The Bluffton Icon and Common Grounds Coffee Shop recently teamed up for yet another fantastic contest. This one is simple, and Phil and Fred guess that you've never played it before.
Simply guess how many Icon coffee beans fit in this jar. The winner will be featured in an Icon 15-minute interview, plus may go home with a hearty congratulations from Common Grounds.
Here's how you enter. Stop in Common Grounds. Check out the coffee jar. An entry form is available at the shop. Enter and wait until New Year's day 2011 (actually Jan. 2) to discover if you've won.
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A Bluffton product is in this photograph. Can you find it?
First, the photo shows the Woodrow Wilson house kitchen from 1915-1924. The kitchen is located on the street level, underneath the Dining Room. Food was transported upstairs to the Pantry by a dumbwaiter.
The Woodrow Wilson House is a museum property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is located at 2340 S Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
During this Christmas season we all want to be generous to the poor.
Fair trade is a wonderful way to do this while checking off your gift list for friends and family. Fair Trade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development.
Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system. Fair trade includes sustainable, environmentally sound agricultural practices, and focuses specifically on fair labor practices and prices.
Jean Cook, photographer of the bald eagle published Nov. 18, the the black-bellied whistling duck, published Nov. 19, offers this background information our the whistling duck:
It's from The Sibley Guide to Birds by the National Audubon Society (copyright 2000, pg 80):
"These oddly gooselike ducks are found in flocks, grazing in open fields or tipping up in shallow ponds. They call constantly in flight, when their broad, rounded wings and long legs are apparent."
I recall as a schoolboy in the late twenties on Armistice Day at 11:00 a.m. being instructed by Miss Biederman (and the next year by Miss Steiner) to lay my head down on my desk in remembrance of those who died eight to ten years before in the World War--no WWII then on the horizon.
There was the school janitor, Mr. Potee, and his brother with war disabilities to remind us of veterans. I had just outgrown a khaki wool suit which my mother had made from an army uniform a neighbor gave her.
