Telegram - Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944

When I was a young girl, butterflies were plentiful where I grew up, down south in Dover, North Carolina. In fact, our home was located on the Hill Farm, owned by my grandfather. During that time, butterflies were plentiful. However, according to U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), over the last two decades, the Monarch Butterfly has been eliminated by 90 percent. We are grateful to Senator Klobuchar for calling for action to preserve the monarch butterfly, which my family and I enjoyed more than sixty years ago.

Butterflies were all around us, but when I caught one, I always let it go....