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Easter is early this year. Easter, according to the Book of Common Prayer, Easter always comes the first Sunday after the full moon. which appears on or after March 21.
Whether you take in a sunrise service at your church, or enjoy watching youngsters search for Easter Eggs, or both, it is fun to
December 25 was chosen as Christmas, or the birth of Jesus, as it is the date of the winter solstice on the Roman calendar and it is nine months after March 25, the vernal equinox and a date linked to the conception of Jesus. There are many traditions that we associate with Christmas, and they are a
The RFD is a government mail service, where mail carriers travel rural routes to deliver and pickup mail from roadside mail boxes. As of 2022, the USPS has around 133,000 mail carriers serving around 80,000 rural mail routes.
Many people even today have rural free mail delivery rather than paying
Skull at the Museum at the Bighorns, Sheridan. (vannoy photo)
Wyoming’s landscape wasn’t always sagebrush and short grass, with rolling hills and steep mountains. At one time Wyoming was a tropical paradise, full of exotic reptiles, flying lizard-like creatures, and, later, huge mammoths and sa
After our long winter of 2022-23, spring is a time to celebrate. The birds are back from their southern wintering grounds, the snow is melting and the grass is beginning to green. What better way to celebrate spring than to celebrate Easter, the time of resurrection.
December 25 was chosen as Christmas, or the birth of Jesus, as it is the date of the winter solstice on the Roman calendar and it is nine months after March 25, the vernal equinox and a date linked to the conception of Jesus. There are many traditions that we associate with Christmas, and they are a
In researching history, it is often difficult to ferret out the real story. As time goes by, stories are told and repeated as fact, and the facts are often lost in the mists of time. So it is with the famous ride of John, “Portugee” Phillips from Fort Phil Kearny to Fort Laramie after the Fetterman
Rural churches, like this one Arvada, Wyoming, held Christmas services during the season
December 25 was chosen as Christmas, or the birth of Jesus, as it is the date of the winter solstice on the Roman calendar and it is nine months after March 25, the vernal equinox and a date linked to the con