Hampers watching the eclipse on the lawn of the Forbes Library.
I took a peek inside the library and saw that the joint was deserted.
The eclipse crowd as seen through a library window.
Speaking of deserted, not much happening when I went to the Hadley Walmart Tuesday afternoon.
UMass duck seated in solitary contemplation.
I'm sad to see this ad for the Valley Advocate revealing that it is now only published every other month, or six times per year.
I'm old enough to remember when it used to come out 52 times per year.
Springfield's Sacred Heart Church 4/13/2024 by Brian Thomas Kiddy
4 comments:
another excellent post, sir. i'd like to share a favorite quote from one of our best ever presidents. it's increasingly difficult to imagine how he could have hailed from this region:
"If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."
~Calvin Coolidge
Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
July 5, 1926
cool fact: Calvin Coolidge was born on the 4th of July
The Valley Advocate is dead.
My son, born last week is named Calvin in honor of President Coolidge.
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