HomeLife Special
Lost cat reunited with owner months later
Photo: Times-Shamrock Photo/Wendy Post, License: N/A, Created: 2012:02:08 10:09:59 We often hear heartwarming stories of how pets, separated from their owners and families, often become reunited due to micro-chipping; and even when an animal miraculously finds its way home. For one local family in Tioga County, N.Y. affected by the September 2011 flooding, the reuniting of one of their cats that got lost during the evacuation process had a blissful return home last Saturday. (read more)
Former Towanda resident documents experience with airing on WVIA (PBS)
Chuck Felton, a 1955 Towanda High School (THS) graduate who now resides in Lakehills, Texas, embarked on a journey in 2009 to document and recount his memories of life in a sanatorium designed to quarantine and treat patients stricken with forms of Tuberculosis. But this journey soon became much more than he expected, with a site developed by Felton (www.feltondesignanddata.com\cressontbsanatoriumremembered) gaining interest that led to an eventual reunion of patients that were treated at the old Cresson Sanatorium, which now serves as part of the Pennsylvania Corrections system, and the filming of the event by PBS. (read more)
A bit of bliss
Photo: Review Photo/NANCY SHARER, License: N/A, Created: 2012:01:24 04:31:44 Have a bite of bliss. The light brown candy glistens with a sugary sheen, like new-fallen snow crystals in your yard on a bright winter afternoon. You crunch into it and the candy crumbles and tumbles and plays around your tongue, kissing it with an innocent, brown, outdoors-y sort of sweetness, then melts away to make room for more. (read more)
‘One Click Culture’ steps out of the Rat Race
Photo: Submitted Photo, License: N/A, Created: 2010:08:28 14:39:23 In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Wash., developed the first electric string bass in its modern form. And as time progressed into the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass. (read more)