By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Once upon a time, way back in the last century, I used to spend a lot of time at the public library. When I was a kid, the Arabut Ludlow Memorial Library in Monroe, Wis., seemed a vast warehouse of endlessly entertaining books and...

By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor I finally got around to watching the movie “Lolita” last weekend. OK, it was made in 1962, and I'm a little behind on pop culture. But for most of my life, I have known that the term "Lolita" was a cultural reference to a sexually...

By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Younger readers may find this astounding, but when we moved to the Kickapoo Valley in 1976, phone service was a tad strange: Our only option was a three-party line. That never proved to be a problem, as one of the parties was a...