by Deborah Larkin | Nov 15, 2023 | Bob Holt Reporting
BOB HOLT REPORTING Our Place is ‘For the Birds’ Now June 2, 1962 For a long time, I had the half-formed idea in my mind that I wanted to put a bird feeding tray in the front walnut tree to encourage more songsters to hang around our house. It buoys my spirits to...
by Deborah Larkin | Nov 15, 2023 | Bob Holt Reporting
BOB HOLT REPORTING At the Father-Daughter Dance May 9, 1961 I had received my instructions in advance from my 13-year-old daughter, Debby. “Please Daddy,” she said, “try to remember. Don’t ask me to dance, don’t talk loud, and don’t laugh loud. Try not to be...
by Deborah Larkin | Nov 15, 2023 | Bob Holt Reporting
BOB HOLT REPORTING Road Trips November 1960 Last week, our family left home on a short Thanksgiving trip, and, true to form, had to circle the block and come back for some forgotten article before really, truly leaving. Now I am a believer in family customs, but this...
by Deborah Larkin | Nov 15, 2023 | Bob Holt Reporting
BOB HOLT REPORTING K as in Kennel It comes as a shock to read my favorite newspaper the other day and to realize that I am within half a cat of being tabbed as a kennel operator. The issue came up at a meeting of the County Planning Commission, where Planner Don...
by Deborah Larkin | Nov 15, 2023 | Bob Holt Reporting
During my dad’s career, he wrote thousands of columns on every subject imaginable – from the mundane to the lofty. He wrote about anything that interested him, and everything interested him. BOB HOLT REPORTING A Midnight Mission I had said I would never do it, but I...
