In the age of popular culture, each generation tends to have popular archetypical characters who provide guidance and moral authority to those in their formative years. For those who grew up in the ...

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For well over 60 years, the preadolescent readers of Highlights for Children magazine have gotten regular lessons in morality from Goofus and Gallant, a pair of kids of indeterminate age and relation ...

Those of us over a certain age remember when we had to find entertainment when and where we could. We even had to walk over to the TV to turn the channel. Because of that comparative dearth of ...

Of course in this day and time, 25 cents will not even purchase a pack of gum, but back in the early 20th century, a quarter had a lot more buying power. We wish D. L. had seen fit to tell us the size ...

Last week we once again discovered that Ohio State is the Mos Eisley Cantina that detractors have always said it is, as the dread pirate Gene Smith and E"vil" Gordon Gee admitted to the NCAA that 46 ...