This Month’s Featured Articles…

By By Allison Guertin Marchese – featured in the Feb. 2016 issue Take this woman. Let’s really start at the beginning and explain, for instance, why men “took wives”. This practice goes way back to ancient Greece and Roman civilizations when a wife was property, basically a dependent of the husband. Taking a wife typically gave men a way of legitimizing their children and finding someone to care for the kids’ needs. Men took wives so they could have someone to cook, clean house, and fulfill [...]

By Christine Bates – featured in the Jan. 2016 issue Have you always been an entrepreneur? I started off at an early age when I was six or seven, riding around with a livestock dealer, Ed Flood, buying and selling cattle. At age sixteen, I worked at Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club, the exclusive hunting preserve. I didn’t make much money, but I learned how to talk to very affluent, educated people, and how to be who you are around them. I still am in [...]

By Mary B. O’Neill – featured in the Dec. 2015 Issue Marley was dead: to begin with …This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.The holiday classic A Christmas Carol opens in Stave One with the icy Ebenezer Scrooge standing in contrast to his kindhearted nephew Fred and his tentative, fearful, yet faithful clerk Bob Cratchit. It is Christmas Eve, and Victorian London is bustling to beat back the cold and fog and welcome in the [...]