Opinion: Hold onto hope for America’s future

“Lately I am hopeful, just a little hopeful, that a new generation of wise leaders and creators are out there”

Bristol Area Indivisible will hold a President’s Day rally on the Bristol green Monday, Feb. 16, honoring George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

In his letter to the Addison Independent (March 12) Tom Hughes accuses me of writing disparagingly of George Washington. This was not my intention. Indeed, I meant just opposite. Therefore, either I miswrote or Mr. Hughes mistook my point. Probably both a … (read more)

In his essay published in the Jan. 28 edition of the Addison Independent, on his way to making a point about George Washington’s example of moral excellence, Victor Nuovo made a misleading and disparaging comment about the Father of our Country. The first … (read more)

Eleventh in a series. George Washington (1732–99) was not an intellectual. He did not attend college. He did not read books; he was not a great orator, and wrote nothing that might become a classic. As Joseph Ellis has written in his excellent biography, … (read more)