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Photo from left to right: In 2019, the “Project Yellowstone” team at County College of Morris (CCM) Dr. Michelle Iden, Professor Samantha Gigliotti, Dr. Maria Isaza, and Professor John Soltes traveled to Yellowstone National Park for an exploratory and education trip. “Project Yellowstone” recently received a New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) COVID-19 Response Grant. Photo credit: Project Yellowstone at County College of Morris
operational and programmatic support for nonprofit organizations that provide humanities programming to public audiences and who are facing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The NJCH grant will help “Project Yellowstone” programming scheduled for Fall Semester 2020 and Spring Semester 2021. In September, a guided tour of the Great Swamp in Morristown will be given by Professor Samantha Gigliotti via a video-conferencing tool. A public book discussion of
John Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” will occur in October. Dr. Shane Doyle, Native American Scholar and member of the Crow nation will give a public zoom presentation. Rounding out the Fall Semester programming will be a faculty and staff book discussion of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Complete details of other “Project Yellowstone” programming will be forthcoming when adjustments are decided upon corresponding to the pandemic.
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ttention readers: Mark Shields is off this week. Please enjoy this column by Veronique de Rugy. This week marks the 219th birthday of the great 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat. It’s the perfect time to talk about his famous essay, “That Which is Seen, and that Which is Not Seen,” published in his book, “The Law.” This timeless work remains an essential guide to thinking about policymaking. In that essay, Bastiat writes: “In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause -- it is seen. The others unfold in succession -- they are not seen: it is well for us if they are foreseen. Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference -- the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen and also of those which it is necessary to foresee.” Oh, how I wish we would have remembered to earnestly account for the unseen effects of policies put into place during this pandemic that will pop up in its aftermath. Take, for example, the massive amount of additional debt the federal government has imposed on future generations of Americans during the COVID-19 crisis. That which is seen is the money flowing from the federal government to the unemployed, to those taking leave due to rescue money given to businesses during the pandemic. While we might be aware in the abstract that there is an accompanying rise in U.S. government indebtedness, that which is not seen is the increase in taxes that must be paid by future generations. Nor do we see the slower economic growth that will be caused by the need to pay off this debt. Even less obvious are the unseen effects of making permanent the supposedly temporary creation of federal paid-leave entitlements. While it’s easy to point to all the advantages of such a
Mark Shields move for the 35% of women who didn’t have any such benefits pre-COVID-19, it’s more difficult to see the lower wages and employment that will result. Also hidden from our vision is the increase in employment discrimination fueled by this policy: When governments arbitrarily increase employers’ costs to hire certain groups, fewer members of those groups get hired. The academic literature is clear that such legislation inflicts very real negative effects on women. Also harder to spot are the unseen effects of rent-control legislation. Such regulations exist in states and cities nationwide, though it wouldn’t be surprising to see more such policies implemented in this crisis’s wake. The benefits are easy to see. The rules promise to make housing in high-value rent markets more affordable for middle- and lower-class families. But once such legislation is implemented, reality kicks in. We see rents going up more slowly than they likely would have otherwise. When paired with eviction protections, this policy gives an illusion of control to tenants who were already in rental homes when the regulation was adopted. What is unseen, however, is significant. Rent-control statutes reduce the incentives for property owners to supply their facilities as residential housing, and continued on page 6 100% MailedNewspaper Flanders, NJ 07836
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verything about the June 30 press conference with Joe Biden underlines how the snarling, vicious watchdogs of the Trump administration will transform into cuddly little lapdogs if Biden is elected president. Biden began with a 20-minute speech, and CNN and MSNBC ran the whole speech live. These networks often refuse to air White House press briefings and try not to give free air time to President Donald Trump ... just as CNN and MSNBC refused to air 96% of Trump’s Tulsa rally. Then came the questions. The one that would seriously cause the president to tear out chunks of his hair came from Mike Memoli of NBC News. It can be summed up as this: “You have a sizable lead. How do you keep winning?” By their softball questions, the press is signaling this question: “And what can we do to help?” Here’s the actual verbiage. “The polls today show you with a sizable national lead, a lead in a lot of the states that are critical in the Electoral College,” Memoli said. “I wonder, where do you think the race stands at this moment? What keeps you up at night as you look ahead? And can you maintain this advantage without campaigning in a traditional way, especially this fall when voters begin to really tune in?” There is not an easier, more open-ended question to ask than “What’s the state of the race?” It’s quite a contrast with what NBC’s Peter Alexander asked at the White House. On June 19, he threw a hardball at White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, quoting Trump’s tweets about back-stabbing former aides who write “tell-all” books. “Why does the president keep hiring people who are ‘dumb as a rock,’ ‘overrated,’ ‘way over their heads,’ ‘wacko’ and ‘incompetent’?” he asked. The aggression quotient on these two questions is Lion and Lamb. Or rabid, man-eating Lions and Lambchop the Puppet. Associated Press reporter Alexandra
Tim Graham Jaffe came first and just regurgitated Biden’s own vicious words about the president. “We reported yesterday that President Trump was briefed as early as March of 2019 that Russia had ordered or offered bounties to the Taliban for the killing of U.S. soldiers. You called his inaction on this issue a ‘betrayal.’ So broadly, what consequences do you think the president should face for that betrayal, and, specifically, what do you think Congress should do?” That’s the question for Biden — how should Trump be punished? Reporters love to paint Donald Trump as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s poodle ... or as a traitor. Biden accused Trump of an “absolute dereliction of duty.” Jaffe still wanted him to give Trump a punishment, asking, “What consequences should he face if these allegations are true or these reports are true?” The obvious answer is defeat in November. CNN’s Arlette Saenz asked a vague question about the racial “reckoning” that’s causing statues to be ripped down and asked Biden, “What do you think when you see the removal of some of these statues?” That’s better than Memoli, but she doesn’t sound like Biden’s own Jim Acosta. Ed O’Keefe of CBS reminded Biden that he had boasted, “I’ll confront Pucontinued on page 6
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certainty and many cancellations, our Key Club members know that leadership and service are at their core. We had to find a way to bring them together even in a virtual format to support them as they develop the skills and resources they will need to continue their leadership journey in high school and Key Club International,” said Michelle Study-Campbell, executive director, Kiwanis Youth Programs. Students who complete the four Culture of Care sessions, featuring Burton Patterson, director of prevention and education, Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault & Human Trafficking, Inc., will be certified change-makers, ready to make a positive impact in their communities. Each student will receive a certificate and will be included in continuing education throughout the year. “Of all the sessions we offered, the Culture of Care series garnered the most interest among students,” said Greg Stowers, director, Key Club International. “These sessions reinforce positive peer pressure that students can employ in their own schools and communities to help bring about real change.”
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continued from page 4 they make it less attractive for developers to build rental housing. Rent control even diminishes landlords’ willingness to maintain the quality of their units. The final result is less and lower-quality housing for ordinary people. There are also seen and unseen effects from the lockdown put in place to control COVID-19’s spread. The seen effects of the policy are millions of people limiting their interactions with others as a protection from a virus that has killed many. The unseen effects of this policy are, among other things, the rise of depression, drug overdoses and suicides; a decrease in diagnostics for other lethal diseases (which will lead to more deaths); the educational impact on children cut out from school; and the long-term eco-
nomic devastation. Peering past the obvious in order to get a more complete picture is what adults do when running their lives and managing households or business affairs. It’s what good economists do when analyzing public policies. And it’s what Frederic Bastiat did with unmatched skill and style more than two centuries ago. Unfortunately, it’s not what most politicians tend to do today. Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. To find out more about Veronique de Rugy and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
Biden’s Puffballs... continued from page 4 tin” regarding the election-meddling issue and asked Biden, “Can you tell us what you would do to Putin?” There was absolutely zero context about how the Obama-Biden policy toward Russia for eight years compares to Trump’s. Did Obama and Biden “confront” Putin back then? Didn’t they obviously fail to prevent this supposedly democracy-mangling Russian interference in 2016?
The elite media pretend it’s preposterous that there’s a vast difference between their treatment of Republicans and Democrats. They need to watch this puffball press conference again. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists
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Speech-Language Pathology Professor at Seton Hall Awarded $1.4 Million Federal Grant to Develop Writing Intervention for Fourth and Fifth Graders
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nthony D. Koutsoftas, Ph.D., CCCSLP, associate professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Seton Hall University’s School of Health and Medical Sciences, received $1.4 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Science’s National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) program to develop and test an intervention for improving writing in 4th and 5th grade students with a language-based learning disability (LLD}. The program, “Writing in Students with Language-based Learning Disabilities,” also known as “Project WILLD,” will allow researchers to create and field-test an intervention through an iterative process that allows for feedback from educators and schoolchildren who participate. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) defines a language-based learning disability or LLD as problems with reading, spelling, or writing in the face of intact hearing, cognition,
and neurological functioning. Though many researchers and institutions have focused on supporting students with LLD to improve reading skills, the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Seton Hall University, along with partners from various universities, will spend the next four years building an intervention to improve writing skills in students with language-based learning disabilities. The purpose of Project WILLD is to create an intervention that targets word, sentence, and discourse level writing skills in students with LLD. It will be administered as part of individualized education plan (IEP) special education or speech-language pathology services to improve writing outcomes in students with LLD. The intervention created through Project WILLD can be implemented by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and/or special educators (SEs) working with elementary-aged students. The intervention will go through four iterations of development over the four years of the project.
Language-based Learning Disability Interventions “Children with LLD are those who have difficulty with reading and writing with related oral-language deficits,” says Dr. Koutsoftas. “It could be that early childhood oral-language deficits are the cause of reading and writing difficulties or that oral language deficits emerged later in school when language demands of the curriculum have surpassed a child’s written language ability. Either way, writing ability is an essential component of modern life for academic and social purposes and Project WILLD will work to find ways for educators and speech-language pathologists to improve writing skills for elementary students with LLD.” Currently, 4th and 5th grade students with LLD receive oral language supports from a speech-language pathologist and written language supports from special educators. The goal of Project WILLD is to combine oral and written language intervention strategies into one program that
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Finally in year four, the team will report their findings, make materials available through the SHU ROW-Lab website, and develop a grant proposal for scale up and initial efficacy testing. At the end of the fourth year of the project, the researchers will be able to share findings on how to better improve writing outcomes for students with LLD. Training Future SLPs This grant provides funding for two graduate students over the first three years of the project. Under the grant guidelines, two graduate students currently pursuing a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology or a PhD program with a focus in speech-language pathology or special education will be hired for each year of the project and receive some tuition remission along with a monthly stipend. They will work 20 hours per week supporting project activities. Researchers and Consultants In addition to the key personnel who will serve as consultants, grant funds have been allocated to hire a full-time project coordinator for three years. The candidate for this position will need to be a licensed
New Jersey speech-language pathologist and will work to support the co-principal investigators on the project who are listed below. Anthony D. Koutsoftas, PhD, CCC-SLP, Associate Professor, Department of Speech Language Pathology and Director of the Reading Oral-Language and Writing Lab at Seton Hall University; Project Director for WILLD Cynthia Puranik, PhD, Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; Co-Project Director for WILLD Consultants: Kenn Apel, PhD CCC-SLP, Professor, University of South Carolina Gary Troia, PhD CCC-SLP, Associate Professor of Special Education, Michigan State University Yaacov Petscher, PhD, Associate Director at the Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL For more information on Project WILLD and available grant-funded positions, contact Professor Koutsoftas at anthony.koutsoftas@shu.edu or visit https://blogs.shu. edu/row-lab/.
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Jurors Announced for the 7th Highlands Juried Art Exhibit; Deadline Extended
he New Jersey Highlands Coalition is honored to introduce the jurors for the 7th Annual Highlands Juried Art Exhibit featuring the landscapes, flora, fauna, natural, cultural and historic resources of the Highlands of NY, NJ, PA and CT. The deadline for artists to submit has been extended to Monday, July 13th. The Highlands Art Exhibit is pleased to welcome its newest juror, Hal Bromm, New York City gallery owner who opened Tribeca’s first art gallery in 1975, and hosted Keith Haring’s first major solo exhibition (www.halbromm.com). Gallery owner and photographer Donna Compton, owner of Neo Art gallery in Boonton (www.neoart,gallery) joins the panel again this year, and has generously offered to exhibit a selection of works from the Highlands Exhibit. Nancy Ori, award-winning photographer, director of the New Jersey Photography Forum and New Jersey Media Center LLC, and a protege of Ansel Adams will again take part in the jurying process (www.nancyorifineart.com). Kathleen Palmer will also be joining the panel once again. A long-time friend of the New Jersey Highlands Coalition and director/owner of Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery of Bernardsville, Kathleen’s gallery will eventually host several prize-winning artists from the Highlands Exhibit (www. studio7fineartgallery.com). Award-winning abstract artist Mitchell Rosenzweig (www. mitchellrosenzweig.com), and Elliott Ruga, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, photographer and Policy Director for the New Jersey Highlands Coalition will also take part in the jurying process, was will New Jersey photographer, Highlands Coalition trustee, and Highlands Exhibit organizer Dwight Hiscano (www.dwighthiscano.com).
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The Annual Highlands Juried Art Exhibit offers artists an opportunity to have their work featured online, exhibited in two galleries, and published in a popular New Jersey tourism magazine. Due to current events, artists are invited to submit work for an online exhibit to be hosted by the Highlands Coalition this Fall on a dedicated website and amplified across social media channels, with a selection of winning images to be published in Skylands Visitor, a popular magazine with a combined online viewership and print circulation of 50,000, promoting outdoor recreation and tourism in the Highlands region and beyond in northern New Jersey. A Grand Prize of $500.00 will be awarded in addition to other cash prizes and gift certificates. Like last year, there will be also a Sculpture Category and a Youth Category for artists under the age of 18. Selected entries will be featured in Skylands Visitor later this year and a selection of finalists will be featured in an exhibit at Neo Art Gallery in Boonton. The three top prize winners also will be shown at Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery in Bernardsville. The Highlands Coalition will be hosting a reception later this year where prizes will be awarded. Thanks to generous donors, there will be a Grand Prize of $500, in addition to Second Place and Third Place awards of $300 and $200 respectively. Other prizes will include gift certificates for framing, printing and local events. Selections from the exhibit will be featured on the new “Highlands Artists” Facebook page and on a dedicated website hosted by the New Jersey Highlands Coalition. Prize-winning images will accompany press releases to be sent to prominent NJ publications. Painting, drawing, pastel, mixed-media,
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sculpture, and photography featuring the landscapes, flora, fauna, natural, cultural, or historic resources of the Highlands of NY, NJ, PA and CT will be accepted for jurying. Abstract images are also accepted and en-
couraged as long as they are inspired by the Highlands. For more information, please visit http:// njhighlandscoalition.org/6th-annual-highlands-juried-art-exhibit/.
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I Remember Dad:
Dad Meets Jerry Siegel at Hickam Air Field
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By Richard Mabey Jr. uring World War II, while my dad was at Hickam Air Field in Hawaii, he came to know the late great Jerry Siegel. Mr. Siegel, along with Joe Shuster, created one of the all-time greatest comic book superheroes, namely Superman. Jerry Siegel was originally trained to be an airplane engine mechanic at Fort George G. Meade, located near Baltimore, Maryland. When Jerry Siegel was at Hickam, he served principally as a writer for Stars and Stripes and Hickam Highlights newspapers. However, there are hints that Jerry did actually work on airplanes at Hickam Air Field, including the great P-51 Mustang. As a child, I used to read comic books, sitting on the living room floor of the old Mabey Homestead. Back when comic books were just a dime, and I was in the third grade, I remember dad telling me about how he knew the man who created Superman. Dad often talked about knowing Jerry Siegel, during his stay at Hickam Air Field. It is important to understand that during World War II, there was a great wave of patriotism and a fierce determination, that burnt deep in the heart of so many U.S. Servicemen, to win the war. Men did not stand on ceremony. The feeling of one for all, and all for one, burnt like a fire consuming a national forest, in the hearts and minds of United States servicemen. There is no doubt in my mind that during World War II, Jerry Seigel rolled up his sleeves and from time to time, worked on the fighter and bomber
planes in the hangars of Hickam Air Field. Jerry Siegel was a Technician Fourth Grade, essentially a Sergeant, during his stay at Hickam Air Field. It was a special rank that was used by the United States Army during World War II. It was the rank of a non-commissioned officer, but held no command authority. My dad stated it perfectly when he used to say, “Jerry Siegel was a regular guy.” Comic books were a common bond that Dad and I shared. Simply put, we both loved comic books. And, we both agreed, Superman was one of the all-time greatest superheroes. It staggers my imagination that my dad may well have worked with Jerry Siegel to repair a P-51 Mustang engine. My dad often told me that Jerry never acted better than any of the other men. He didn’t walk around Hickam, acting like he was better than everyone else. In early April of 2006, Dad came home from the hospital and went under Hospice care. Dad had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. One day, in the middle of April, Dad asked me to bring him some of my old comic books, that we would read them together. I still had a lot of the Superman comic books from the early 1960’s. Jerry Siegel wrote a lot of the Superman comic books including Action Comics, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Adventure Comics, even into the mid 1960’s. But sadly, DC Comics did not always give Jerry credit for his writing talents in the comic book that he wrote. The last Superman
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A photo of the late great Jerry Seigel taken at Hickam Air Field during the Second World War.
based comic book that Jerry wrote for DC Comics was Jimmy Olsen #89 from December of 1965. My dad went Home to be with the Lord in May of 2006. It was a few weeks after his passing that Mom, my sister Patti, and I went through Dad’s things. There, in an old shoe box were Dad’s artifacts and keepsakes from his stay at Hickam Air Filed. Rolled up in two rubber bands, continued on page 18
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I Remember Dad... continued from page 16 was an old issue of Hickam Highlights newspaper. And inside the pages of that issue, was a story about dad receiving an award for outstanding morale and enthusiasm in his work as an airplane mechanic. And yes, you guessed it, it was written by the late great Jerry Siegel. Jerry Siegel touched the lives of both, my dad and I. I never met Jerry Siegel. Something that I deeply regret. I can’t help but to think that it may well be true that Jerry Siegel drew upon his experience at Hickam Air Field in writing comic books. It just makes me wonder. On the twenty-eighth of January of 1996, Jerry Siegel went Home to be with the Lord. A most sad day in
Dad, as a young boy, reading comics beside his younger brothers in the backyard of his childhood home at the end of Mabey Lane.
comic book history. For the world lost one of the alltime greatest comic book writers on that day. And, as my dad would often say, a man who was just a regular guy.
Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@gmail.com. Please put on the subject line: My Life Publications.
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By Richard Mabey Jr. ur story so far: It is Tuesday, the seventeenth of June of 1969. My second day of summer vacation. I am 15 years old and have just completed my sophomore year at Boonton High School. It is my second day of painting the interior of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church’s infamous Thorpe Hall. During my lunch break, I hand wrote an essay of what scouting means to me. I plan on presenting it to Mr. Marino, Editor of the Lincoln Park Herald, to see if he sees it is worthy of publication in his newspaper. It is now three o’clock in the afternoon. I am still painting away. Our story continues. I looked at the big clock that hung just above the kitchen door entrance from the vast emptiness of Thorpe Hall. It was now three o’clock. I decided to give myself a little treat and take a break from my painting, early today. Actually, if truth be told, I had an ulterior motive. I knew that mostly every day, Mary T. met her friends at Moe’s Sweet Shop to sit at the far table for sodas. I was hoping to catch Mary at the sweet shop.
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The Bully
I cleaned all my paint brushes. Securely closed the lid on my open can of paint. And then carefully folded up my blue tarp. I washed my hands with Lava soap in the kitchen sink. My heart began pounding at the thought of possibly seeing cute Mary T. at Moe’s Sweet Shop. I walked out the door of Thorpe Hall, climbed down the steep outdoor stairs and then headed off to Zeliff Place, in high hopes of seeing the girl to whom I had such a hopeless crush on. I walked up Zeliff Place and turned the corner onto Main Street. The big window of the jewelry store, located just before Moe’s Sweet Shop, acted as a second-rate mirror. I looked at myself in the window and saw my reflection. I was painfully thin, wore glasses and my T-shirt and denims were covered with eggshell white splattered paint stains. I dried off the sweat in the palms of my hands against the sides of my dungarees. I reached the glass door of Moe’s Sweet Shop and there was Mary T. sitting at the far table surrounded with all of her friends. As I entered Lincoln Park’s landmark sweet shop, I began to walk to the back of the lun-
cheonette to check out the comic books. As I passed by Mary, she waved and said hello to me. I sheepishly said hello to Mary. I wanted so badly to walk over to her table, but all of her friends were there and I was just plain too shy to do that. I had a quarter in my pocket. Back then, regular comic books were 12 cents each, but the big giant-sized comics were a quarter. Standing in front of the big comic book display, I debated whether to buy the giant-sized Batman comic book or to buy a regular Batman comic book and a regular Superman comic book. At that very moment in time, in walked Tony Savorti. Tony had just graduated from Boonton High. He was a popular boy who had played on the football team. As soon as he walked into Moe’s Sweet Shop, he confidently walked right over to Mary T. and her friends. As I looked over the comic books, I heard Tony starting to flirt with all the girls. And then he sat at the empty chair right next to Mary T. My heart sank a mile and half. “Hey Mary, watcha say I pick ya’ up Saturday night and we go see that ‘Last Summer’ movie playing at the State Theater in Boonton?” Tony boldly asked Mary T. “I don’t know. I’m supposed to baby sit,” Mary T. replied. “Oh, Mary, I can baby sit for you,” Cindy, one of the girls at the table, told Mary. “Well, I don’t know,” Mary shyly said. And, there I was flipping the pages of the giant-sized Batman comic book. My heart felt like someone had plunged a dagger into its core center. “Come on Mary. Ya’ haven’t ridden in my hot rod 57 Chevy, since I bought it last week,” Tony confidently said, loud enough that everyone inside of the sweet shop could hear him. “Oh, Tony, I guess so. But I gotta be home by 10 o’clock,” Mary shyly stated. “You got it girl,” Tony brashly replied to Mary. With the giant-sized Batman comic book in hand, I started to walk to the cash register at the front of the luncheonette. As I walked by Mary’s table, Tony Savorti boldly shouted out, “hey, girls, look at this. The boy sprout’s buying himself a comic book. Ain’t that nice?” “Oh, Tony, be nice. Do ya’ hear me! Be nice,” Mary commanded to Tony. I just quietly walked by Mary’s table. I wanted to punch Tony Savorti right in the nose. I was torn between feeling hurt from hearing Mary accept Tony’s offer to take her to the movies. And, I was so furious with dumb old Tony Savorti for being so outra-
A photo of yours truly taken in my tree fort in 1969. I was a thin, shy, awkward teenager.
geously cruel to me. As I stood in front of the cash register, Moe was busy making a malted milk for a customer sitting at the counter. “Hey Moe, the nerd’s waiting to pay for his comic book,” Tony rudely shouted to Moe. “You know something, Savorti, the kid’s got more class in his little finger than you’ll ever have,” Moe sternly shouted to Tony Savorti. Moe came over to his cash register. I handed him my quarter. Then Moe looked me straight in the eyes and simply said, “don’t let him get to ya’ Richie. You’re a good kid.” I walked out of Moe’s Sweet Shop. I held a firm grip onto my new Batman comic book. I passed Steve’s Barber Shop. Halfway home, I broke down and cried. And, I said to myself, “I should have punched that wise guy right in the nose.” To be continued. Richard Mabey Jr. is a freelance writer. He can be reached at richardmabeyjr@gmail. com. Please place the wording “My Life Weekly” in the subject line.
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