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Poetry: I’m Ashamed

June 11, 2020

I am ashamed at what has been happening in our nation lately, disregard for human life, property and safety.   I am ashamed at being born white, living in an affluent community, attending a proper New England boarding school, attending an Ivy League University.   I am ashamed, as a child of the 50s, that my father had a black yard man he called “boy,” our neighbors had a black maid who lived in their attic and I thought nothing of it.   I am ashamed that at school every morning I recited the Pledge of Alleg … (read more)

A local poet finds inspiration in isolation

May 28, 2020

MIDDLEBURY —  Miriam Hardy has spent the majority of her 84 years writing poetry. Like her great-aunt and her mom before her, Hardy has enjoyed writing odes to people, places and things that inspire her. But her world has shrunk considerably since the cor … (read more)

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