Goshen was the local name for a pair of separate "locations" granted to veterans of the French and Indian War, and settled in the 1760s. Those two tracts lay below the southeast corner of Conway, on the east side of what was then called Walker's Pond. Both locations were annexed to Conway in…
For more than a half-century, the moon has orbited the Earth without a close human witness, its pitted, rocky surface unexplored, its far side unexamined, its mysteries left fallow.
I want to share a bit of my faith journey with a community that has embraced me for 68 years. I did not come to understand the glory of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit overnight. Oh no. It took me 72 years, a whole lot of stubbornness and a few spiritual two-by-fours to the head.
It is deep.
An only child often conjures up siblings. At the age of four or five, during our brief sojourn in a bungalow near Norfolk, Va., I told neighborhood children about my brother. They had never seen him, I explained, because my parents kept him in the attic. That brother vanished when a woman ca…
So-called "Border Czar" Tom Homan announced that due to the "unprecedented" cooperation of local officials, he's pulling 700 ICE agents out of Minnesota. I imagine they'll be deployed first to the Super Bowl to round up Hispanic attendees, and then to Merrimack, where a new ICE detention fac…
His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Ala., the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where within 30 yards of his house six Black active-duty soldiers went off to Vietnam, including one of his childhood…
There is unlimited fodder for castigating our federal government, but I can only wade through that swamp for so long. It’s time for a break and to deliver a column of fun.
After 60 years of living and working in the North Country, I have decided, without hesitation, that November is my least favorite month. Every day in November is a little shorter, a little colder and a little more dreary than the days before and even more than December days, when the reality…
Both amateur and academic symposia on the Civil War sometimes entertain the question of whether that conflict could have been avoided. William Seward's antebellum remark on the "irrepressible conflict" between the slave and free states is often invoked as a challenge to those who might doubt…
Every Wednesday night, I play poker with a group of friends — something we have done for more than 40 years. The nucleus of the group has changed as players moved away or succumbed to the fate that awaits us all. Our current membership is mostly old and mostly Republican. We generally avoid …
PALM BEACH, Fla. — From his lair at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump sees the sun rising. His sunshine retreat doesn't allow him to see the sun setting.
Donald Trump’s MAGA and Adolf Hitler’s National Socialism are cut from the same cloth. As America approaches its 250th birthday, we increasingly resemble the Third Reich.
It is that time of year. It is football season and Super Bowl season.
Carroll County commissioners and department heads Dec. 23 released a comprehensive year-end report detailing a landmark year of operational improvements, infrastructure investment and fiscal responsibility. Despite facing significant hurdles, county leadership successfully delivered a clean …
Determining how many teachers, administrators and other people the Conway School District employs can be reminiscent of playing the shell game, especially in recent years. In the past, however, the public was at least given detailed summaries of the numerical total of staff, reduced to full-…