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Anton Chekhov’s “The Wood Demon,” completed in October 1889 and performed in Moscow two months later, was a flop. Eight years later, having revised the play, Chekhov submitted “Uncle Vanya” to the Moscow Art Theater. It was a hit.
Twenty years ago, on Oct. 1, 2000, I wrote a column in this newspaper “congratulating” four of Connecticut’s six members of the U.S. House of Representatives on their “splendid victories” a month before they were actually reelected.
Having itself failed to perform for most of this year, abdicating amid the virus epidemic, the General Assembly is gearing up to punish Connecticut’s two leading electric companies, Eversource Energy and United Illuminating, for supposedly failing to restore power fast enough after the recent tropical storm.
There’s no question about it, it’s been a good run. But after 15 years, The Millerton News has made the tough decision to shut the doors to its physical office space at 16 Century Blvd. in the village of Millerton and operate completely remotely. But don’t be alarmed — the newspaper itself is not going anywhere.
Embracing smallness in Falls Village
The good news is that I successfully voted in our primary using what Connecticut calls an absentee ballot. I sent the town of Sharon a note that I couldn’t come to the polls because of the coronavirus, and they mailed me a ballot, which I filled out, placed in two envelopes, signing the outer envelope.
‘I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, including voting for Donald Trump in 2016.”
When you see a lead sentence like that on an op-ed column, the next sentence will most certainly begin with the word “But.”
This was a historic storm
What’s the first thing you did when the power came back on? Take a shower? Do the dishes? Clean out the refrigerator and freezer? Do the laundry? The list goes on.
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