A year ago I ended this page with a hopeful note: “One day soon, I know I will begin like this: We are back on the trail. Let’s go see everyone we have missed. It doesn’t matter when it is, it will be like our first Christmas.” And last spring, as we proudly showed off […]
Mel Allen
I begin my mornings scrolling through a host of New England newspapers online, just seeing what people are up to. One day in May I read in the Bangor Daily News about Woodland Consolidated School, in the small town of Woodland in Aroostook County, Maine. For years, educators there have emphasized teaching cursive writing, that […]
In a small Pennsylvania town there is a modest brick house, built at the end of the Second World War. You can see on one wall countless tiny nicks, the result of someone having thrown a hard object against it for hundreds, even thousands of hours. I know this to be true because, from early […]
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A race riot engulfed New York City that March, sparked by rumors that police had killed a Black teenager accused of shoplifting and fueled by the Depression’s staggering unemployment. Sweeping through other parts of the country were cataclysmic weather events that would force hundreds of thousands to uproot. Political battle lines hardened between FDR and those who declared his New Deal and Social Security Act to be examples of un-American socialism. Distant rumblings of militaristic countries threatening neighbors made people unsettled and anxious. This was America in 1935, when in September, Robb Sagendorph published the first issue of Yankee.
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I am writing this letter on the cusp of May. What the world and, in particular, New England will be like when you hold this issue remains a mystery. Will we be walking through the streets of Boston or Providence or Burlington? Will cars be streaming to Cape Cod? Will friends be over for a backyard barbecue? Will we lose ourselves in America’s pastime for a few hours at Fenway Park? Or will we still be doing the hard and essential work of staying home, helping to give everyone the best chance at emerging safely through these rough times?