Union Organizing December 4, 2021 I’ll blame myself for the Reader not displaying this column quite the way I would have wanted. But for those reading it here I’d… Continue Reading
Back before the NRA put side arms on the hips of every self styled Kyle Rittenhouse November 24, 2021 This was a cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1958 when I was about the same age as the runaway in Norman Rockwell’s… Continue Reading
One of my book projects November 24, 2021 Over the past twenty years I have had a half dozen ideas for writing about the deplorable black history in America that, fortunately for… Continue Reading
My son lines up for a vaccination story 33 years ago November 23, 2021 Discovered tonight as I continue to organize my old Archives. He’s second in line. Continue Reading
The Uighur games November 22, 2021 I’m angry that China is doing to a million Uighurs what the Americans did to Native Americans……try to obliterate their customs and languages in… Continue Reading
Breaking news trumps Harry’s secrecy over his next column November 22, 2021 I rarely if ever steal the Duluth Reader’s thunder by putting my columns online before they appear a week later in print but I’m… Continue Reading
The current column in the Reader November 20, 2021 The poor old Duluth Reader is having trouble keeping its online version up with its paper version so I can no longer guarantee a… Continue Reading
Prattling on – First day as a sub November 20, 2021 I told some of the five classes I “taught” yesterday at Harbor City International that I hadn’t subbed in a class since 1983. That… Continue Reading
Published May 13, 2004, teared up reading it November 18, 2021 Not Eudora By Harry Welty Published Feb 19, 2004 Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff A tribute to Dorothy Neumann Dorothy Neumann, late of the… Continue Reading
Published 18 years ago on October 10, 2003 November 18, 2021 Not Eudora By Harry Welty Published Oct. 3, 2003 The Last Eight Days Monday – My son’s band is playing at Beaners tonight. I… Continue Reading
More about the nuisance that Democracy is November 18, 2021 In my last post I described how happy so many college educated Trump haters were when they could avoid a referendum on the Red… Continue Reading
More on my archiving November 18, 2021 That title is used to warn readers that this is more of a diary entry than any comment on policy, politics, science or religion…. Continue Reading
“Seeing Red,” My long misarchived column found November 17, 2021 My archiving work keeps turning up lost or misplaced items. One such last night was the letter my Grandfather wrote to my mother after… Continue Reading
My morning email to an old buddy re: politics and US History November 17, 2021 On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 9:36 AM harrywelty wrote: Poor Rutherfraud. When we were in school we got the Democratic preferred history that… Continue Reading
This Optimist’s fear got an early start November 16, 2021 I have been taking my lifetime’s collection of family memorabilia and putting it in chronological order for three weeks. I’m hoping to have the… Continue Reading
Proof that Harry Welty is still an optimist November 15, 2021 I’ll write this post for tomorrow but not now. In April of 1950, just days after I made the journey from egg to ovum… Continue Reading
Everything that Harry writes that is not about the imminent destruction of Earth as we knew it is superfluous. But, he does prattle on at: www.lincolndemocrat.com November 15, 2021 The cumbersome title of this post is also my new tag line that will follow my Not Eudora columns for the Duluth Reader. It… Continue Reading
A personal history… November 13, 2021 ordered by family at a Welty Family reunion in the 1990’s. One of the discoveries in organizing and collating family mementos over the past… Continue Reading
Vive la France….From this week’s Reader November 12, 2021 The Reader online is now separate from the Reader at the newsstands. Consequently, sometimes my columns don’t get published online for me to link… Continue Reading
Blogging as a distraction November 12, 2021 For most of my blog’s history I have blogged up a storm. It started with posts in 2006 that can be accessed easily by… Continue Reading
