A peep egg might sound like an Easter treat. As a white egg-shaped object, often painted with colorful decorations, like the two that sold together at Austin Auction Gallery for $215, it might look like one, too. Peep eggs are actually Victorian optical devices. At the time, advances in ...
It’s not just Israel. One of the least convincing arguments of opponents of the Iran war is that it is a conflict initiated by the Jewish state for its own benefit — the U.S. is just along for the ride. This view not only discounts the U.S. interest in defanging Iran, but neglects that there are other countries in the region besides Israel and Iran and that they, too, have a stake in the outcome of this war. If there’s anything that Iran has succeeded in doing over the first month of battle, it is further demonstrating the intolerable threat that it represents to the ...
Each Saturday, The Express community newspaper highlights people, groups and activities our readers deem worthy of applause. THANK YOU to the Susquehanna Valley Big Twins Motorcycle Club for hosting a basket benefit for Mike Neff during their March 21 breakfast. Special thanks to SVBT Club President Brad Darby, Bev Confair and Brenda Masden for all of their help with the basket benefit. THANK YOU to everyone who donated baskets or prizes for the benefit and to everyone who came out to buy tickets to raise funds to help Mike and his wife, Lori. — Mike and Lori Neff The Prayer ...
Dear Annie: My husband and I host Easter brunch every year for both sides of the family — about 16 people total. I cook a big frittata, a glazed ham, homemade rolls and a salad or two. My problem is my sister-in-law, “Brenda.” For the past four years, she has signed up to bring dessert. And every year, she arrives with the exact same thing: a single grocery-store container of brownies. Last year, she set it next to the spread without even taking the brownies out of their plastic container. Meanwhile, I’m prepping for days in advance trying to get the food cooked and nicely ...
There is something clarifying about being far from home. In Cape Town, South Africa, where the mountains meet the sea and the horizon feels endless, distance creates a kind of stillness that invites reflection. But even here, halfway across the world, America is never far away. It lives in the conversations, the questions and the quiet curiosity of strangers trying to understand what is happening and where it is all heading. What has struck me most is not just that people are paying attention but how intently they are watching. Taxi drivers, business leaders, students and shopkeepers ...
The British- and American-backed plot to overthrow Iran’s prime minister in 1953 laid the groundwork for the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and decades of hostility with the U.S. that have now culminated in a war launched on Iran by the U.S. and Israel. Many Americans only know the anger and tension with Iran that has grown from those roots set down during the middle of the last century. But as an archaeologist who has spent over 50 years specializing in Iran, and from my research on Iranian history in the context of changes undergone by Iran’s nomadic population through time, I believe ...
