Out walking on Easter Sunday in Middlebury and it was so nice to have a day without anyone mowing their lawn, using a leaf blower or running a chain saw. I remember my father talking to me about how quiet his neighborhood was in a suburb of Chicago when he was a kid because pushmowers and hand tools were how people maintained their property.

Easter was an anomaly this year as nothing has grown enough to need cutting and we may still have a frost, so all the gardens have not been decluttered of leaves. Just saying that in a world where everything seems to get done with a noisy engine of some kind that it was nice to have a day of peace and quiet.

William Biederman

Middlebury