Welcome to the online "Granny's Notes" archive. This collection contains all of Sue Gerard's stories from her weekly column in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Please browse the list below to read her stories.
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DateTitle
December 30 Thinking back, there were several reasons ...
December 23 Stepping into one of the local college boo...
December 16 Ours is a family interested in old cars, s...
December 9 Chub’s Uncle Archie used to tell about th...
December 2 In my day, most kids I knew used two tin c...
November 25 When I was a little girl, our phone rang a...
November 18 Columbia’s 1935 experiment in supervised ...
November 4 Imagine living without cell phones, comput...
October 28 A city fellow once said, “Sue, farmers su...
October 21 When I began teaching swimming classes at ...
October 14 In the ’70s when I was taking Columbia Co...
October 7 It comes as a surprise to many people that...
September 30 The pond bank is almost the highest point ...
September 23 A long-ago cartoon showed a boy pushing a ...
September 16 Once, when our children were getting ready...
September 9 It was a surprise when Chub announced that...
September 2 Jim Robertson thumbed through one volume o...
August 26 In 1935, I was Boone County’s representat...
August 12 The retail dairy business has changed a lo...
August 5 As a preschooler, my world was about six m...
July 29 When we bought this 160 acres, the only po...
July 22 A friend and I were returning from a late ...
July 15 We were 16 bicyclists, a leader and two in...
July 8 This week I’m wearing my 16-year-old T-sh...
July 1 In 1972, my husband joined us a few hours ...
June 24 When I was a toddler, Mom wrote to her sis...
June 17 The week after I earned my senior lifesavi...
June 10 Nancy, Walt, our friend Barbara Smith and ...
June 3 KFRU’s announcer said, “Broadway is bloc...
May 27 A few months before our first grandchild w...
May 20 She joined the local bicycle club in the 1...
May 13 Our Hong Kong interpreter said “Who wants...
May 6 My brother and I rode to town with Dad in ...
April 29 Our farm family had three substantial meal...
April 22 Dad and some neighbors used mule teams, pu...
April 15 About 15 years ago, our daughter, Nancy Ru...
April 8 Dr. Sumers’ nurse called Mom the day befo...
March 25 Pottery is one of the oldest arts of manki...
March 18 Orl~ando Denver and Jesse Hugo were Meyers...
March 11 She’s a wiry little woman, clipping along...
March 4 Tall cylinders called silos once dotted th...
February 25 “Aunt Sue, I’ve got to learn to swim wel...
February 18 Daniel Boone was known as a mighty hunter,...
February 11 Young Nathan was delighted with the prospe...
February 4 We lived in Michigan one winter during Wor...
January 28 A minor bike mishap on a rainy day sent my...
January 21 My niece, Marian Lytle, drove as we return...
January 14 A visit to China never entered my head unt...
January 7 Our farm is fenced for cattle. The corral ...
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