21Aug 11, 2017
The main character in my book, Aaron Collins, is a hard-working farmer who quite frankly loves it. His chief quarrel with his mother was that she was a high-class Bostonian emigree determined to save him from such a low-class fate with its inevitable opportunities to mingle with the rabble. Aaron won that fight, and, as […]
22Aug 9, 2017
On Jan. 29, 1774, Benjamin Franklin was still loyal to the English throne, looking for a peaceful middle-of-the-road solution for the growing turmoil in the colonies, and in England as emissary for Massachusetts. On that day he kept an appointment at Whitehall that changed everything. The British government, furious over news of the Boston Tea […]
23Jul 1, 2017
The horrible drama of the Trump (lack of) administration continues, and now I really have to say something to his many detractors: Lay off the personal comments about his hands, hair, weight, and skin tone. This is not because he’s been ill-used. All the misery he’s going through has been brought on himself by his […]
24Feb 2, 2017
I was reading about the debate over the adoption of the Constitution when I burst out laughing. Some of the antifederalists objected to the document because it did not establish a religious test for holding office. One opponent complained that this could lead to a situation in which “a Turk, a Jew, a Roman Catholic, […]
25Jan 15, 2017
This really bites. I’ve always been a sucker for our Revolutionary Heritage. I absolutely love the musical 1776, even though I know it’s not completely accurate, and I always tear up at the finale when the Declaration of Independence is signed to the toll of the Liberty Bell. And I would wonder how a man […]