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Loran Smith: Welcoming shorter days

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In case you haven’t noticed, daylight is coming a little later now. That trend will continue as the calendar moves toward the cooler temperatures of autumn and then winter.

I don’t live by the moon and stars. Don’t keep company with the Farmer’s Almanac either, but when I occasionally spend time with that publication, I think about how savvy and brilliant the individuals of the colonial era really were when our nation was in its infancy.

Ben Franklin originated “Poor Richard’s Almanack” in 1732. The “Old Farmer’s Almanac” came about in 1792 and is still published today.