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100 years ago — 1920
SALISBURY — Charles Coons Jr. has been quite ill with a hard cold.
LIME ROCK — Miss May Goux is in the Sharon Hospital, owing to poisoning in one hand.
SALISBURY — Malcolm Spurr has had his residence wired for electricity.
There are so many struggling with the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with few well-defined paths to good outcomes right now. The time is unique, but it gives us some feeling of control and comfort, it seems, to compare it to other times and look for historic ways of coping that have worked before and might work now.
KENT — When we left for spring break at the end of February, the coronavirus wasn’t on my radar. We had just finished up winter term of school [at Marvelwood, an independent boarding and day school in Kent] and I looked forward to sleeping late.
When we Americans make it through the COVID-19 pandemic as a viable group, how do we want to remember the time it overtook our nation and our planet, and the way we responded to it? Will we think about how we had to pull back from those around us and bond with our families?
The Bells of St. Mary’s Church are ringing!
The Church Bell at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, part of St. Martin of Tours Parish, will ring daily for the Angelus at noon and 6 p.m.
Nearly 50 years before a Brooklyn boy named Bernie Sanders became the Socialist mayor of Burlington, Vt., the larger city of Bridgeport, Conn., elected native son Jasper McLevy as New England’s first Socialist mayor.
100 years ago — March 1920
A meeting was held in Robert’s Banquet Hall Monday evening for a discussion of the advisability of adopting the Daylight Saving Plan in Lakeville and vicinity.
This week’s Nature’s Notebook was compiled from contributions from several nature experts. Look for a report on the return of waterfowl, from Sharon Audubon, in our issue of April 2.
Great Mountain Forest
Jody Bronson, forest manager for the Great Mountain Forest in Norfolk and Falls Village says:
There is no better time to think about open government and transparency than in the middle of an unprecedented health crisis. After all, the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic are affecting all our lives right now, and will continue to do so as the full effects become clear down the line.
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