The weekly newspaper column "Jake's View" is a humorous portrayal of a legendary witty, philosophical old codger sitting on a rocker on the front porch of a farmhouse off a dusty back road in Lancaster Co., Pa. Sixty-eight lighthearted stories include titles such as Smucker's Harness Shop, Glow-in-the-Dark Mice, Heebie-Jeebies, Windsor Forge, John Bressler, Bowmansville Days and Amos, Dowsing, Chinese New Year and Hawaii in Shady Maple, Diving Horses, Burma-Shave Signs, etc. (199pp. Author, 1997.)