On the second day of November 1944, in the middle of France, a grandfather sat down to write the story of the day an American soldier died in his village. It had been a day of wonder and sorrow, wrote Monsieur Colombier. The Germans vanquished! The French flags waving! Happy GIs tossing chewing gum and […]
Author Archives: Cindy Lange-Kubick
Cindy Lange-Kubick began her writing career at the "Malcolm News," penned on her popo's Mobil Oil invoices in her grandparents' home in the small Lancaster County town. She returned to journalism years later as a harried mother of three, and happily spent the next 28 years writing columns at the Lincoln Journal Star. When she cleaned out her desk in August 2021, she carted home her three prized possessions: The Robert T. Morse Award for excellence in mental health reporting from the American Psychiatric Association, the Great Plains Journalism Award for column writing and a handmade plaque from her cribbage partner Stan, in honor of a once-in-a-lifetime feat: a perfect 29 hand.
