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Applause, Applause

Each Saturday, The Express community newspaper highlights people, groups and activities our readers deem worthy of applause. St. Luke’s United Church of Christ in Flemington would like to send a big thank you out to everyone who purchased soup at its recent soup sale. Thank you to all those who made soup, worked the day of the sale and donated towards the sale. As always a big shout out to the Lock Haven Express for its help in advertising the sale. YOU HAVE THE POWER If you would like to make a nomination for our weekly Saturday morning round of “Applause” for someone or ...

Havenite memories

At Woolworth’s Lunch Counter, late Express publisher Charles Ryan once quipped, “Steve, what would life be like without memories?” If you share some of these memories, you’re a bona-fide “Havenite.” While newbies are welcome, Baby Boomers might recall toting ice skates down to Flemington’s Grove Pond, gathering golf balls at the classy Clinton Country Club or watching Commissioner and Silversmith Dan Reinhold paint the old Millbrook Barn to attract a summer stock theatre. If near the “Bully” before Lowes, Sheetz and Walmart, you could buy tire retreads from Bob ...

Dear Annie: Seeds of suspicion

Dear Annie: This situation has been bothering me for four years and is much more complicated, but I’ll try to be brief. I’m a horticulturist and plant collector and have lived in my home for 38 years. I’ve put my extra time and money into my perennial flower beds, and some of the plants in my collection are worth as much as $200. Whenever my husband and I leave town — which happens often in the summer when we stay in another state — someone comes into our yard and digs up plants and flower bulbs. At first, I thought my son had taken them, but he said he hadn’t and then ...

Early airplane toys were modeled after real planes

Today’s toy companies might be fueled by flights of fancy, but, in the early days of flight, real-life aircraft were imaginative enough. Many toy airplanes of the early 1900s were miniature copies of existing airplanes, like a windup Bleriot airplane by Gunthermann that sold for $1,080 at ...

The political instant replay

In sports, the instant replay was invented and first used by a man named Tony Verna on the Dec. 7, 1963 broadcast of the Army-Navy football game on CBS. The political “instant replay” has no single author or starting date, but its overuse has produced few resolutions of the major problems confronting the country. What it has produced is a deepening cynicism about politics and so much else. Too many Americans now see their fellow Americans who are of a different party or persuasion as a bigger enemy than Iran or Russia. Long-term friendships have been destroyed over whether one ...

Is the American Empire doomed to crumble?

History does not whisper. It warns. Empires do not collapse because of a single moment of weakness. They erode from within, slowly hollowed out by overreach, moral ambiguity and the false belief that their power exempts them from consequence. The question before us is not whether America is strong. It is whether we are wise enough to endure the burden that comes with being the world’s lone superpower. Scores of empires have come before us. Each one believed itself indispensable. Each one believed its reach was justified. And each one eventually fell, often not at the hands of ...