Your Stories

Greetings to all of our faithful Scull-Craft calendar friends! In our often chaotic world, one thing you can count on is that a new year is coming and you can be ready for it with your favorite calendar to plan all your days, both the ordinary and the extraordinary ones. We are looking forward to our local farm market opening soon, gazing at the sky in wonder on those wonderfully warm summer nights, and making delicious homemade food to share with our ever growing family. Sometimes it is the most ordinary parts of our lives that have the most meaning. Sharing a poem that I love… Ordinary Day by Kathleen Fullerton I change the cloth on the dining room table we rarely use. Open the china cabinet door spilling the smell of my grandmother’s apartment, after 20 years, sweet, cedar, Jean Naté, bites the back of my throat. I pull …  Read More May 2006→

I have been using the Scull calendar since I was first employed at the National Institutes of Health and following my 38 year career I have been using it every year to date in my retirement!

My mother-in-law left us her legacy via the huge pile of Scull-Craft calendars we found in her home when she died in 2012 at the age of 99. The last few calendars were tattered and stained, because she carried them with her everywhere, in a tote bag attached to her walker. Like other Scull-Craft fans, she used them to record the past and plan for the future. Each year she would carefully transcribe the dates of births and deaths, when houses were bought and sold, the acquisitions of pets and appliances and children, when vacations and hospitalizations took place – all the important stuff of a typical, 20th century life. It’s a delight to read them. She used to purchase 20 or so as Christmas gifts; we are down to just 3 now (sorry, but that’s all we need!) I have taken on her practice and love to compare the …  Read More Janice McSherry→

Hello Friends, My mother introduced me to Scull almost 60 years ago. Her garden club was selling them as a fundraiser and I have looked at your family name daily (or more) since then – and have bought them for my family & friends – Less now I regretfully say. Hope the move is successful for all. -Best Wishes

Thank you for these wonderful calendars once again! (This was year 55!) Have all of them saved-precious record of our life. Karen Belknap

Greetings fr. Athens Your/my steadfast calendar is more than #’s and paper. It is my history, my anchor, my posting for things to come. “Mimi, please don’t stop the calendars.” “Mimi has the calendar come yet? I need it!”… friends who join me in leaning on the #’s and paper! Thanks for continuing the calendar Priscilla and Lou! Sincerely, Mimi Jones