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100 years ago — July 1921
Several of the young folk at Twin Lakes’ summer colony climbed Prospect Mountain last Thursday night and had supper on the mountain top by moonlight at midnight.
— Mr. Bownes of Lime Rock is entertaining his uncle from Rome.
William Dalrymple’s “In Xanadu: A Quest,” a happy combination of erudition and brio written when the author was 22, retraces Marco Polo’s 5,000-mile journey from Jerusalem to Xanadu, begun in 1271, completed in 1275.
If there’s anything the worldwide pandemic has taught us, it’s how to change things at a moment’s notice: the ubiquitous “pivot” is now perhaps more a part of our lives than any other action. This skill is one that the organizers of any events across the region certainly found supremely useful last week.
Roman Pucinski, our Alderman on Chicago’s Northwest Side.
Danny Rostenkowski, our U.S. Congressman, who went to the slammer for various skullduggeries, who can recall them all?
To listen to popular songs from the past, one might think that heat waves were mostly pleasant occasions to lay back in a recliner and just enjoy a cool drink since it’s too hot for either work or play.
The Connecticut Foundation for Open Government (CFOG) is a nonprofit educational organization founded on the principle that open, transparent government is in the public interest.
Gratitude for help when it was needed
I had no idea that we’re surrounded by living heroes. I’ve been largely ignorant to the fact that there are dozens of people who live and work right here in our local community who volunteer their time and their highly developed set of skills for the betterment of all of us.
“There’s always been a certain tension between government officials and journalists. The complex relationship between the two virtually dictates such a tension. But because each plays a vital role in the business of the other, there’s also a kind of symbiosis — a mutually beneficial coexistence.”
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