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McREYNOLDS: Our family secrets still feel haunting

Be Afraid, But Do It Anyway Our family secrets still feel haunting Nature or nurture is a question I keep asking myself. Why have I always been afraid? Did I learn fear? Why did my parents keep to themselves? Kept us close to them? No overnights with other kids. Or other kids sleeping at our house. Maybe not just because our house wasn’t as nice as the other kids? My family lived secrets. Were Mom and Dad just shy? Or…
July 22, 2021

McREYNOLDS:…But I Wasn’t Afraid Of ‘The Troubles’

LETTER from ERNA MORGAN McREYNOLDS …But I Wasn’t Afraid Of ‘The Troubles’ You already know that I have been afraid to do almost everything I ever did, but that never stopped me. But then there were the times when I should have been afraid but wasn’t. Why did I think I could head off around the world at 21? Emigrate to New Zealand from a small Upstate dairy farm? From New Zealand there was no easy way to call home…
January 7, 2021

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

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