Note: In honor of the holiday baking season, today’s post is a retelling of a classic children’s tale, edited for a running audience… Once upon a time a little old woman and a little old man lived in a cottage. One day the little old woman …

What plant products did the little old woman use, for example, when she made the gingerbread man? Master gardeners have even been called into Weatherford City Hall to teach water department employees about turf grasses and water conservation.

The little old lady was sitting in a New Orleans streetcar with two heavy bags of groceries on her lap. Because she was a black woman, the streetcar conductor told her to get up for incoming white passenger, 13-year-old Marilyn Diehl.