Sylvia Zimmerman Archives - The Delaware Gazette

The Rockefeller legacy

John D. Rockefeller wished for two things: to live to be 100 and to earn $100,000; he failed on both accounts.

Apr 28 2013 | Posted in Sylvia Zimmerman | Read More »

Coolidge helped get nation on its feet

President Calvin Coolidge helped put the nation back on its feet after the grueling indebtedness of World War I and the enervating scandals of President Harding’s administration

Apr 3 2013 | Posted in Sylvia Zimmerman | Read More »

Andrew Mellon benefitted Americans

Andrew Mellon has been vilified in American history books as the secretary of treasury under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who wanted to reduce taxes only on the rich and increase taxes on

Mar 13 2013 | Posted in Sylvia Zimmerman | Read More »

The certainty of postmodern conservatism

I am not an expert, a researcher or a specialist, but rather a generalist, a universalist and a reader always deducing the good where I find it and calling out ironies where I see them.

Mar 5 2013 | Posted in Sylvia Zimmerman | Read More »

Our dog ate a five-pound box of John Eagle chocolates one Christmas Eve leaving Christmas morn a mess for my mother to clean up. He had used the wingback chair as a ladder next to the cupboard to access the box, then nudged the top off and consumed every delicious morsel and then went to the basement steps and threw it all up on each step, leaving a final hurray just below the final step! It was horrible in all directions.

Dec 12 2012 | Posted in Sylvia Zimmerman | Read More »

Horse search turns up lightened spirit, cookies

Many years ago on a grey, drizzly early December day, I drove somewhere in Knox County to buy a horse. Thinking a horse might lift my dreary spirits, I answered an ad, knocked on the door of a small frame house in the midst of a decidedly unkempt farmstead, one I had concluded could not house a horse I would want!

Dec 7 2012 | Posted in Sylvia Zimmerman | Read More »

Tales of cats, kittens

Romney’s dog, Seimus, might have ridden on the top of his vacationing van, but my two kittens rode to Columbus in the hub of the wheel cap under my truck! My son helped get them out and they rode back to our Delaware County farm safely in a box in the bed of the truck.

Oct 11 2012 | Posted in Columnists,Sylvia Zimmerman | Read More »

Wharf culture: Fish tales

It is a good thing I live inland because wharf culture doesn’t appeal to me — squawking gulls, smells of the sea mean fish and I don’t like fish. That doesn’t mean I managed to avoid fish, especially lobster.

Oct 1 2012 | Posted in Sylvia Zimmerman | Read More »