The bell of Our Lady
One Sunday at the conclusion of the 8 o’clock service at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Charlotte, bright sun flooded the east-facing entrance of the church through the open double doors...
Death by cop
The last person Vermont executed
was Donald Demag on December
8, 1954. Demag committed two
robberies and killed two people while
doing so...
Gull Talk
If old enough, the perfunctory annual statement received from the
Social Security Administration dutifully lists one’s work history, dates and employers, from the point one needed to have “working...
End of the consumer economy
At the end of World War II, the United States began to build an economy based on consumerism...
Some annual town reports are keepers
The annual town report that hit
mailboxes in mid-February is a bellwether of better things to come...