Friday, September 18: Power went out early this pm. Not all at once: flickered a couple times, went dark, back on, then soon off again. After 5pm it was still off. Lordly Duke Power sent out an email, which made it all official. Area: our neighborhood. Cause: unknown. Time til power’s back on: unknown. It … Continue reading The Outage & The Power Gods
Prelude In the 1850s, Maysville was a town in slaveowning Kentucky, on the watery border with free state Ohio, just across the busy Ohio river. This border was hotly contested in those years: numerous abolitionists had settled nearby around Aberdeen and Ripley on the Ohio side. Many enslaved people made for the town, to attempt … Continue reading 3-D Quakerism, Lucretia Mott— Stirring Up Trouble?
Dear No Kings Friends, I was beginning to think the No Kings movement was done. Since March, things have been pretty quiet. With all that was going on, that was a bummer. The three big No Kings rally days were some of the best public protests I’d seen in over sixty years of watching, reporting, … Continue reading After The Midterms: An Idea, A Precedent & A Tagline
Target: Mustangs — Two Memories and a Nightmare Chuck Fager One It was like walking into a frontier Disney movie. “Stallions,” said cowboy Fred. “Stallions are tough. Tough to catch, tough to hold, and tough to place.” I glanced up at him from the fading campfire, then down at my reporter’s notebook. I could almost … Continue reading A Holiday Weekend Read: Target — Mustangs — Two Memories and a Nightmare
This post is adapted from Tell It Slant, by Emma Lapsansky Werner. Having a stroke in October 2019 slowed — but didn’t stop — Chuck Fager’s completion of another new book: Passing The Torch. It’s Chuck’s valedictory collection of autobiographical essays by eleven Quakers of this generation, invited not for worldly renown, but because he … Continue reading Dog Days Ruminations: Vegas, Elvis, the Fab Four & The End (Or Not) of An Era