This week we welcome Church Administrator Matthia McCracken to the writer’s desk… Almost any crochet pattern, whether you’re making a doily or a sweater, ends with the same three words. I dread these three small words every time I begin a new project.Weave in ends.If you knit or crochet, any time you change a color or…
On Sunday, December 28 we will again this year gather for worship with our sisters and brothers at First and Central Presbyterian Church. This will be the fifth year we have worshiped together on the first Sunday after Christmas since we first did so in the wake of our failed boiler in 2010. We will gather at…
One of the greatest American artists, Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in 1859 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When she was a young girl, his mother Sarah escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. His father Benjamin became a renowned African Methodist Episcopal minister, bishop, theologian, and author. His middle name is short for Osawatomie – the town…