You’ve seen the images. Pest-control operators in full-body suits, tanks of toxins on their backs and spray guns at the ready. These guys are dressed to kill. But that’s history. “I think the industry ...

The question started with a hazy memory, of being a kid in Providence, no older than age 11, and a small section of the city with a funny name: Shoo Fly. This reader remembered being a young man and ...

Picture of what's thought to be the old Shoo-Fly Train that took visitors to Carolina Beach in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These days, getting from Wilmington into Carolina Beach is as ...

“Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me,” “Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn),” “Polly Wolly Doodle,” “Turkey in the Straw.” What do these songs have in common? They’re American folk songs, children’s songs, songs ...

The best known Mississippi Coast’s shoo-fly was built at a wealthy New Orleans cotton businessman’s summer home on Biloxi’s East Beach in the 1800s and destroyed by Hurricane Camille in 1969. The tree ...

Last Saturday morning at work a sweet customer came in requesting Shoo Fly Ant and Roach. She was very intent on getting the right product because she brought her “next to the last can” to match. Well ...

"Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me,” “Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn),” “Polly Wolly Doodle,” “Turkey in the Straw.” What do these songs have in common? They’re American folk songs, children’s songs, songs ...