November 11, 2025 Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com In sepia, the image sears into my thunderstruck brain. The man staring up at me from Ancestry.com has my high forehead and deep, penetrating eyes, the same long jaw and a head too large for his shoulders. His mouth is narrow and unsmiling, his hands on… Continue reading Unfriendly ghosts
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Revolution remembered
April 15, 2025 When we celebrated the Bicentennial of our founding in 1976, I was fresh out of college, underemployed, and generally too busy to care. Now we're sliding into the 250-year Semiquincentennial (yes, that's a real word), beginning at Lexington and Concord with the anniversary of the shot heard 'round the world on April… Continue reading Revolution remembered