The upcoming holiday season bodes many social engagements with all the seasonal trappings. No doubt all of these parties will include liquid refreshments, some hard, some soft and many sparkling. It ...

Some friends, aware that I liked sassafras tea, brought me some sassafras root one recent day. It was probably two feet long with a large amount of bark still attached, and even at the rate that I can ...

The time changed on the March 11 to Daylight Savings Time. I need an explanation as to how that saves daylight. St. Patrick's Day is a day when serious gardeners like to get some things planted. Peas ...

I have heard about common sassafras, the Ague tree, or the scientific name Sassafras albidum, since I was a kid. One of the reasons I remember sassafras is I had a Cub Scout leader who founds some ...

In the woods near my childhood home grew a cluster of small trees. I only noticed them after my older brother pointed them out to me. He showed me that some of the leaves were shaped like mittens, but ...

VERNON — The annual Sassafras Festival is being held in Jennings County this weekend, and while many different festivities will take place, the root of the celebration all can be found in the free tea ...

THE COWBOY STEPPED through the swinging saloon doors and dragged his dusty boots over to the bar. A sheen of grimy sweat coated his face, both from the sun, and from a rumbling in his gut from ...

Once in awhile, on the way down the lane, my granddad would stop the truck, reach out the window and break off some twigs of sassafras. I don’t remember the root beer taste; it was more the novelty of ...