My love of Star Wars inspired a life in the theater and years in the film and TV business. On our journey through Aberdeen, I spotted a sign in familiar block lettering that read, "STAR WARS SHOP. Don Sucher, lifelong resident of Aberdeen, was 34 when he first saw that iconic Star Destroyer. '" Sucher's interest in the Holy Trilogy lay fallow for 17 years while he did responsible grown-up things like hold a job and raise two sons, Nicholas and Koby. "I'm sitting in the theater, and of course the movie blew me away," he recalls. I was 9 years old that long summer, the perfect age to sympathize with a farm boy (on a planet of deserts, no less) who dreamed of racing away from galactic hinterlands at point five past lightspeed. I expected a handful of books, toys and DVDs on a few dusty old shelves. Sucher & Sons. This is the greatest movie I've ever seen, but I'm too old to have fun. I grew up and moved on, of course, but some cherished loves never fade. What I got blew my mind. more...

A mother of three boys, an entrepreneur, and a student of life in Delaware County shares what she knows and what she learns about life in Delaware County. Diane Holefelder is a native of Aston and is the owner and publisher of the Delaware County Today Almanac, a publication that has been in existence for 96 years.