To the Editor: Fifty-five years ago on April 22, 1970, the largest, the cleanest, most peaceful demonstration, that ever occurred in America’s history, HAPPENED! My generation created a new kind of movement. A movement which aligned high school students, college campus militants, wilderness ...
The iconic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "Paul Revere's Ride" begins, "Listen, my children ..." And, sure enough, we have long told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in April 1775, when the famous silversmith warned the countryside of approaching British troops and the American ...
Kafkaesque. One hears that word a lot in discussions of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Or, for lowbrows like me, "The Twilight Zone" might be the pertinent reference. Abrego Garcia is the Maryland man who was wrongly deported and imprisoned without trial in a grim prison in El Salvador. In March, ...
CHARLEROI — For 132 years, the sound of the factory air whistle signaling the start of the work day at the plant along 8th and McKean Avenue in this Washington County borough meant all the things we associate with work: Men and women had jobs, families had food on their table, the societal ...
To the editor: “Where’s Waldo” is a wonderful children’s puzzle book many of us played with our children. The challenge is to find Waldo hidden amid countless images of people and objects. The reward is when they discover Waldo. More than fun, this game builds perception skills, ...
We live in uncertain times. It's a phrase we keep hearing, whether we're talking about climate change or politics. But aren't all times uncertain? We could time-travel to declare uncertainty during the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the COVID-19 pandemic. ...