Michael P. Columns

This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Someone's In the Kitchen With Schmitty

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This column originally appeared on Sept 10, 2010. It felt downright odd standing there alone in the tiny kitchen on North Hanover Stree...

Monday, September 27, 2010

Nothing But BLue Skies Do I See

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This column originally appeared on Sept. 26, 2010. History tells us that heroes were initially demi-gods – part man, part dei...

Monday, September 13, 2010

Enter, Laughing

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This column originally appeared on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010 I don’t know whether it was Lowell Ganz or Balaboo Mandel, or both together, ...

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Trespassers W

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This column originally appeared on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 Ssssh! I have a confession to make and I want to be very certain t...

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Making The Grocery List

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This column originally appeared on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 Every year since 1998, Beloit College in Wisconsin has been issuing what its facult...

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sarah and Eddie, Meet Carolyn

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This column originally appeared on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. I have a friend named Carolyn B. who lives in New Hampshire an...

Monday, August 02, 2010

A Lasting Encounter With EZ

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This column originally appeared on Aug. 1, 2010 The memory of Elinor Z. Taylor that has stuck with me for all the years I knew her, wrote s...

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About Me

Michael P. Rellahan: I started working at the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., in 1982, three years after graduating from Earlham College, a Quaker oriented school in Richmond, Ind. In 2004, I was asked to begin writing a column once every other week, focusing on out-of-the-way subjects concerning Chester County, Pa., and more specifically, West Chester. In 2006, I began writing the column every week. In October, 2007, after 25 years on the job, I went back to reporting. I started this site to give my friends and family a chance to see what I've been thinking and writing about.

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