Now and Then
Short Days and Long Thoughts
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Within November’s first full week, we returned clocks to normal time, we voted, and we observed Veterans Day.
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Within November’s first full week, we returned clocks to normal time, we voted, and we observed Veterans Day.
My mind has been torn by football players kneeling at games during the national anthem to express their displeasure with certain aspects of our nation’s culture.
I am delighted to report that four of the Town’s expired collective bargaining agreements have been successfully negotiated. The remaining three are in the home stretch.
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Leslie Marx and her son Khiel Marx took the Observer to the Smoky Mountains to read in Gaitlinburg, Tennessee, while they waited to view the total eclipse through their Kent Memorial Library glasses.
Since I have been with The Suffield Observer, I’ve wanted to write something regarding Veterans Day. I’ve made attempts, but they just didn’t sound right.
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Writing on Columbus Day in 2017, we are searching for what is amiss. In 21st Century America, Second Decade, we probe uncharted and uneasy territory.