In the past few months, the Casa del Sol Quilters has produced 225 quilts, all for children at area hospitals. ...more

January 24, 2009

The quilters long since had rested their fingers Saturday while Brooksville-based cane weaver Kathleen Barnes soldiered on, demonstrating her craft for fairgoers at the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village's Farm Festival and 18th Annual Quilt Show. ...more

February 10, 2008

Ruth and I took a ride out into the country earlier this week to the visit Edd and Rita Vowels, who just about a year ago sold off all but one of their McDonald's restaurants. Last Feb. 15, I wrote the final chapter on the couple's highly successful business ventures in the tri-county area as well as their influence on so many of the area's community affairs. Then on the 21st of that month they signed the papers that closed out that phase of their life. They then officially joined the ranks of the relaxed retired ones. "One thing about retirement," Edd says in his soft-spoken manner, "when I wake up I wonder, 'What day is this?'" ...more

February 9, 2008