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Alaska is bigger than you think but has a view
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
Due to a blunder by the baggage-handling department, my luggage had accidentally been sent to the same location where I had flown.
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Small the news that’s it to print in Hartland
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
Hartland could be described as a whisper of a town without enough pairs of pants to be the county seat. It is so defined by agriculture that a vegetarian meal is chicken and there is no point hurrying through town--the tractor ahead of you isn’t.
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Nature's Q and A
Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009
A retired oil company engineer reported that he used turkey vultures to find gas leaks.
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The squirrel and I have been up the birdfeeder
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
I like squirrels.
I feed the birds and because I feed the birds, I feed the squirrels.
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More Columns by Al Batt
- The tale of the trotting wild turkey
- Running bear chases scared blueberry eater
- Hear everything you want at Tom’s Barbershop
- When the World Series happens during school
- Wind farms of change are coming to Hartland
- The tooth hurts, especially in your ice cream
- Do you believe in ghosts? Things that go bump
- Owning shoes is OK; replacing them is hard
- And the Nobel Prize for Penmanship goes to …
- NRHEGBOMSCBHTLHCGFVMBLSO High
- Husbands and hardware stores go hand in hand
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Appreciation of art in the city of big shoulders
I was in Chicago with time on my hands and the sweet woman murmured to me — you know how this goes — “Would you like to see the Art Institute?” and I was thinking No No No God No, and I said, “Sure. Fine.” “You wouldn’t rather do something else?” she said. “No,” I replied. That’s the correct answer when a woman asks you about art. Yes, absolutely, ma cherie. Read story
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Youth for Christ changed perspective
I recently received this note from a past “youth” involved at Youth for Christ. We recently had our annual banquet with more than 400 people in attendance, for which we are very grateful; this is one more Youth for Christ story we want to share with your readers. Read story


