Columnist writes recipe for life

Evelyn Birkby’s writing career started with a typewriter and her husband’s support

It was Robert Birkby who encouraged his wife to answer the advertisement for a weekly columnist in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel, now called the Valley News. He ignored her when she said she couldn’t write a column, couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to read what she had to say. Instead, he dragged out their [...]

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