Louise Grabell When I arrived in SaddleBrooke 12 years ago (wow—12 years already!) we were taken on a tour. Being an avid gardener from back east, I was enthralled with the desert landscape but I couldn’t quite understand why such a beautiful community would keep barren, apparently dead plants in the ground all around the…
John Bezy The basin occupied by Mexico City and the rich highland to the north, called the Bajio, is the cultural heart of modern Mexico. It is also the birthplace of two great prehistoric empires that were controlled from the magnificent city of Teotihuacán (100 to 700 A.D.) and that of the Toltecs governed from…
SaddleBrooke resident and author Richard Hamilton recently became the recipient of the courtship and Civil War letters of his great, great grandparents George Thomas Patten and Lydia Ann Denton-Patten. Surviving six generations the letters, along with several old tintype photos, were given to him in December 2015, by his cousin Louise Patten-Walma. Richard spent hours…
Editor’s Note: “2 Your Health” is a new column in the SaddleBrooke Progress dedicated to health issues. Each month different doctors and or medical associations, from varying specialties, will be writing on issues of importance. Articles are based on experiences and independent research conducted by the doctors or medical associations. We encourage anyone considering changing…
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg The movie was The Yearling, adapted for the screen from the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s novel of the same name. It starred Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman. At one point in the movie Jane Wyman appeared to be darning a sock. I had recalled the word “darn” from my childhood, as my mother…