VIEW OF A CLOSE CALL
By Buffy Calvert
One fall Sunday, I stepped out of my house into blustery, invigorating air whipped by a swirling wind.
ANDES STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL: SIXTY-FOUR YEARS AND COUNTING
A brief history of the annual Strawberry Festival at the Andes Presbyterian Church by Buffy Calvert
THE WAY WE WERE – March 1909
The little girl in the red dress holding a nosegay of self-heal is Nancy Hunting, my great grandmother. I like to think some itinerant artist painted it to pay for his lodging at the Hunting Tavern. Born in Hamden in 1830, Nancy came to Andes in 1837 with her parents who bought the tavern on the stagecoach route from Kingston to Delhi.