January 19, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. What does this picture make you think of? Mr. Brown, my social studies teacher at school, told us to look at this picture and write a paper on what freedom means to us. Not to the country or to somebody else, but to each of us as individuals. Mr. Brown …
Freedom’s Price
Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. ~Richard Watson Gilder Memorial Day weekend – the weekend that launches summer. Schools are out or will be soon. Seniors are graduating and getting ready to grab life by the horns and see what’s next. Some young men and …
Freedom to Write
“Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority–literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.” Ignazio Silone (Italian Novelist & Journalist, 1900-1978) Liberty is what we celebrate here in America on the Fourth of July. It’s what we’ve had from the time …
Independence Day Weekend – God Bless America!
Hi everybody. Hope you had a great Fourth of July with picnics and fireworks and fun as you celebrated our nation’s freedom. In our church bulletin today I put a quote from Pearl S. Buck “None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascination power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.” And that’s …