Articles by Jeanne Shannon

Some days there is nothing like a cozy read, whether sitting in the garden on a sunny day, or curled up in a comfortable chair on a rainy one. I hope you find these articles interesting, amusing, informative, nostalgic, or all of those things.

You may want to print out these articles to peruse in a more comfortable spot than in front of your monitor. Feel free to do so, keeping in mind please that it is copyrighted material and may not be reproduced or distributed without my written consent.

Jeanne Shannon

• Hearing the Colors of the World, by Jeanne Shannon — (about synesthesia, “a phenomenon in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as the hearing of a sound resulting in the sensation of the visualization of a color.” More information about synesthesia, can also be found on our Links page.

• Turn Your Radio On, by Jeanne Shannon — Memories of listening to the radio at Osborne's Gap

• Lo How a Rose, by Jeanne Shannon — Christmas in Dickenson County, Virginia, early in the 1940s.

• Memories of Mail in the 1940s, by Jeanne Shannon