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L.V. schools will abide by state mandate expedient,” the commissioner wrote. “Absent the change in the board’s position . . . the DepartThe Locust Valley Central ment of Health and the Nassau School District Board of Educa- County Department of Health tion voted on Tuesday to comply will not hesitate to enforce the with the New York State Depart- provisions of the public health ment of Health’s mask mandate, law . . . which includes the less than 24 hours after board assessment of civil and criminal trustees voted to penalties.” defy it. Board Vice A willful violaPresident Margaret tion would result in Marchand cast the N o l a n’s re m ova l lone dissent on Tuesfrom office, Rosa day, and Trustee continued, and the Lauren Themis withholding of state abstained. aid from the district. Although the Marchand asked meeting was held at the district’s attor4 : 3 0 p. m . , wh e n , Edward McCarBRADY CONNOR ney many district resithy, if there was dents were still at LVHS senior someone who could work, it drew a large determine when the crowd. Board President Brian m a s k m a n d a t e c o u l d b e Nolan said he had received a let- repealed. It is currently in effect ter that day from state Education for 90 days. Commissioner Dr. Betty Rosa, “They offer no metric, no stating that the State Education date, no science,” Marchand Department had gotten word said. “How will the Department that the Locust Valley district of Health operate for the next 90 had decided not to adhere to the days, and what happens after order that masks be worn by all that?” students while in school this fall. The department can issue an Failure to do so would be break- emergency order that the maning the law, Rosa wrote. date continue, McCarthy said. “School officers take an oath The decision would be based on to obey all legal requirements, not just those which they deem CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND SEVERAL artifacts at the underground stable and lodge site and at the rifle pit and firing range at Sagamore Hill.
A revealing unearthing of bits of history at Sagamore Hill BY LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Last month, archaeologists made some significant discoveries at Sagamore Hill. A group from the National Park Service spent two weeks conducting an excavation at the stable and lodge site and surveying the rifle pit and firing range in the woods at Theo-
dore Roosevelt’s beloved summer White House. There is much known about the interior of Roosevelt’s home, but not about its surroundings, where a stable and lodge once stood. Roughly 300 yards from the house, it was destroyed, historians believe, by a fire in 1944, when a kerosene container on the porch of the stable exploded.
Roosevelt died in 1919, but his wife, Edith, lived at Sagamore Hill until her death in 1948. There were no casualties in the fire, which is surprising, because many single men, including the Roosevelts’ staff, farmhands and day laborers lived at the lodge. Although Sagamore Hill was CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
NEIGHBORS IN THE NEWS
Locust Valley Garden Club’s inspiring talks At the Locust Valley Garden Club’s August meeting speaker Bea Helft of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County, shared information about perennials, including their role. While they cost more than annuals, whose benefit is providing color, perennials are a good investment over the years, even better if grown from seeds. Perennials and annuals planted by LVGC members Marcy Meyer and Kassie Miller Roth can be seen in Barbara’s Garden above the tennis courts at the Locust Valley Library. LVL Children’s Librarian Leslie Armstrong, invited children in their summer reading program, “Tales of Tails” to take their books into Barbara’s Garden to read. During July and August, Meyer and Roth decorated the display case outside the community room in keeping with the summer reading theme, animals with tails: dogs, cats, fish and fowl. September will feature the fascinating Teddy Bear collection of Ellie Pucciariello. New club members are welcome to join and learn more about the world of horticulture at the Sept. 15 meeting at the Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Club of Locust Valley at 10 a.m. There will be a presentation by Kay Weninger, of Operation Democracy. She will share her 2021 photos of Giverny, the garden Claude Monet created to inspire his famous Water Lily paintings. Bring a paper bag lunch and beverage. The fee for the program is $15. For more information, please contact President Dean Yoder at dyinteriors@yahoo.com.
Photos courtesy Kassie Miller Roth.
VICE PRESIDENT JONATHAN Grimm, President Dean Yoder and Horticultural Chair Sallie McNeill Rynd with the bouquet of flowers that illustrated her monthly talk. AUDREY RYDZEWSKI, BETTY Madden and Marcy Meyer, part of the LVGC, learned all about perennials at last week’s meeting.
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BAYVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL students took a moment to document their first day in front of the welcome sign donated by the Bayville Elementary School Parents' Council.
Excitement on first day at Locust Valley’s schools Sept. 1 was the start of a new month and a new school year for Locust Valley Central School District students. Summer break was over, but students and staff were happy to see each other in their classrooms, at recess and during specials such as art, physical education and music. Kindergarten students spent time learning the routine, while older students jumped right back in.
Through academic activities, teachers helped students get to know their classmates and set goals for the school year, while beginning lessons in all subject areas and offering mask breaks t h ro u g h o u t t h e d ay. T h e e n e r g y throughout all the schools was a good sign that a great school year is ahead.
STUDENTS IN CAROLYN Morales' second-grade class at Bayville Primary School worked together to set goals for the school year. LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE School/High School students attended classes such as music on the first day of school.
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District avoids civil and criminal penalties CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE the trend of Covid-19 statistics. “I need for everyone to understand that the DOH gives themselves the authority to renew it,” Marchand said. “The DOH is elected by who?” During the public portion of Tuesday’s meeting, many residents voiced their displeasure with the board’s decision to change the mask policy. But according to Loretta McGovern, of Bayville, and others, residents who support the mandate have been too afraid to speak at board meetings. “I was booed when I spoke, and a woman behind me was doing a thumbs down the entire time I spoke,” McGovern said. “Then I was heckled. The board did nothing to stop it.” McGovern said that the people who have been attending board meetings, and often loudly voicing their points of view, do not speak for families like hers. She has four children, one of whom has medical issues, and they have studied remotely for the past year and a half, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Even with masks now required, McGovern said she would not be sending her children to school in person this week. “I think parents will send their kids to school unmasked,” she said. “And I’m worried that children will walk up to my children and say that they have to wear a mask because of them. I don’t want this for my family.”
LVCSD’s fight against mask mandate Aug. 17: School boards in New York state are given authority to determine reopening procedures as they apply to Covid-19. The Locust Valley Central School District Board of Education votes to make masks optional, leaving the decision to parents. Aug. 24: Gov. Kathy Hochul directs the state Department of Health to require universal masking in schools. Aug. 27: The DOH issues a mandate for indoor masking for pre-K through 12th grade. Aug. 30: The LVCSD school board votes to affirm making masks optional. Aug. 31: Board President Brian Nolan receives a letter from state Education Commissioner Dr. Betty Rosa warning that if the district does not adhere to the mask mandate, it may face civil and criminal charges, Nolan will be fired and state funding will be withheld. Aug. 31: The board modifies its reopening plan to require masks in school. Brady Connor, a senior at Locust Valley High School who was the first to speak during the public session on Tuesday, said he did not understand why, the night before, the district had voted to defy the directive from the state Department of Health that masks be made mandatory. “No one likes the mask,” Connor said. “I don’t like the mask, but if it it’s what we have to do to be in school to eventually
have a normal year, I think it’s worth it. Our student body . . . is split on this issue, but at the end of the day, we want the same things: a fun, great year for everyone and a memorable one for our seniors, and I say memorable for the right reason.” Some parents said their children would not follow the mandate, confirming McGovern’s fears. Others said they would
not pay their school taxes if the district follows policy. Mike Hogan pointed out that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo had ended New York’s state of emergency in June, and argued that the district had every right to challenge the state. “Why is the state singling out our children, the least vulnerable among us?” he asked. “Why at schools and not shopping malls, stadiums and restaurants? Is this the first steppingstone toward mandatory vaccinations of kids?” At the board’s regularly scheduled meeting on Monday and the special meeting on Tuesday, some attendees echoed Marchand in complaining that neither Hochul nor Health Department officials were elected. “The state is responsible for our unified health, not for your individual choice of health,” David Mayloff, of Bayville, said on Tuesday. “That is why health law is made, why it is people with expertise in health policy who are not just appointed, but approved by elected officials, the same way others are appointed in all levels of government. We can’t elect everyone. We don’t elect Supreme Court justices.” “There are some things we do for the greater good,” Mayloff added. “I sacrifice things daily, because I know if I do the opposite, it may not affect me, but it will affect my community. There’s a pandemic going on.”
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The Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District welcomed nine new teachers to the district during an orientation on Monday. The new teachers gathered at the Oyster Bay High School library to meet with their mentors, colleagues and department leaders to discuss the upcoming academic year.
■ Alex Herbert, business teacher at OBHS
The new members of the Oyster BayEast Norwich School Community include: ■ Lana Bunning, science teacher at the OBHS
■ Deniece Patterson, math teacher at OBHS
■ Christopher Fludd, fine and performing arts leave replacement at OBHS
■ Virginia Kemp, fifth grade AIS at James H. Vernon School ■ Pamela Mitchell, psychologist ■ Alexandria Muller, fine and performing arts leave replacement at OBHS
■ Yiming Wang, Mandarin teacher at James H. Vernon School and at OBHS ■ Diana (Mayo) Yen, English teacher at OBHS
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ceremony, the Town will unveil new names inscribed on to the Walls of Honor that recently lost their battle with 9/11 illness caused by exposure at Ground Zero. The September 9th ceremony includes bagpipe music, religious readings and remarks by family members of the victims.
Movie at the Library Gold Coast Public Library Annex, 50 Railroad Ave., Glen Head, 2 to 4 p.m. Watch “The Father” (2020) at the library. A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality. Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar for his role.
Tour the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
Saturday, September 4 Deep Roots Farmers Market 100 Garvies Point Road, Glen Cove, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The weekly farmers market offers a selection of locally grown vegetables and eggs, fresh baked bread, honey, seafood and more.
Farm Stand with Orkestai Farm Begining at 10 a.m. stop by the Visitor Center at Coe Hall, Planting Fields Arboretum 1395 Planting Fields Road Oyster Bay and visit the farm stand to learn about the site’s agricultural history. Centuries before the Coes established their estate, indigenous communities and European colonists farmed the loamy soil of Planting Fields. This agricultural tradition continues to this day. Come speak with farmers from Orkestai Farm, the organic farm at Planting Fields, about produce, cultivation and historic crops. Be prepared to take some Orkestai Farm vegetables home with you!
Sunday, September 5 Forest Therapy Walk Starting at 10 a.m. experience the benefits of the outdoors at Planting Fields, located at 1395 Planting Fields Road in Oyster Bay. Certified guide, Linda Lombardo, will lead a 2-hour walk throughout the Olmsted Brothers-designed landscape of Planting Fields that will promote mindfulness and connectivity with your surroundings. Forest Therapy is a research-based framework for supporting healing and wellness through immersion in forests and other natural environments. Mem-
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Begining at 2 p.m. via zoom, join author and artist Joyce Raimondo for a virtual tour of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, a National Historic Landmark site. Tour the former home and studio of two of America’s foremost abstract expressionist painters, Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), which preserves the environment that inspired them and contains evidence of their creative processes. See the studio floor that’s covered with brilliant colors and rhythmic gestures found in Pollock’s masterpieces and on the studio walls, evidence of Krasner’s dynamic painting technique is visible. Register online at glencovelibrary.org.
Begining at 8 a.m. every saturday, enjoy summer in bloom at Planting Fields by starting your weekend taking outdoor yoga in the gardens. Enjoy being outdoors and connecting with the natural landscape through continuing your yoga practice at Planting Fields. The 409 acres of Planting Fields includes an extensive collection of gardens, including: the Italian Garden, Cloister Garden and Circular Pool, Children’s Play House and more. Members: $12 General Admission: $20. Planting fields is located at 1395 Planting Fields Road in Oyster Bay. bers: $36 General admission: $40
Monday, September 6 Monday Jazz Night at La Bussola Ristorante At 40 School St., Glen Cove, at 7 p.m. featuring pianist Danny Mixon, accompanied by bassist Bryce Sebastien, La Bussola Ristorante is putting on a Monday Jazz Night, to continue every Monday for the forseeable future. There will be two shows each week, at 7 p.m. and at 8:30 p.m., each an hour long.
Tuesday, September 7 Oyster Bay Cruise Night
Every Tuesday evening during the
summer, the streets of Oyster Bay are filled with classic cars and spectators for Oyster Bay Cruise Night. Restaurants, shops, snacks and beverages, ice cream and shopping surround the collection of fun and interesting cars. Additionally, live music fills the streets with a band at every cruise night. Also, weekly raffles and giveaways for children. Each show starts at 5:45 p.m. and runs until dark.
Wednesday, September 8 Tour the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Begining at 2 p.m. via Zoom, join
author and artist Joyce Raimondo for a virtual tour of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, a National Historic Landmark site. Tour the former home and studio of two of America’s foremost abstract expressionist painters, Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), which preserves the environment that inspired them and contains evidence of their creative processes. Register online at glencovelibrary.org.
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Thursday, September 9 9/11 & Walls of Honor Remembrance Ceremony Begining at 7 p.m. at TOBAY Beach, A 9/11 Light Tribute will illuminate the skies along the shoreline in memory of those lost that tragic September morning. At the
Glen Cove Senior Center Rose Shoppe Boutique is open Mon - Fri, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oyster Bay Town Board will meet on Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. Sea Cliff Mini Mart scheduled for Oct. 3 has been postponed until October 2022 North Shore Board of Education will meet on Sept. 2. Village of Sea Cliff Board of Trustees will meet on Sept. 13 at 6 p.m.
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Covid-19 vaccinations are now being administered at businesses, thanks to a new initiative by the Nassau County Department of Health. On Aug. 27, Richner Communications Inc., parent company of Herald Community Newspapers, hosted a pop-up vaccination clinic at the company’s Garden City office in conjunction with the county-sponsored initiative — referred to by county officials as the “traveling vaccine pod.” Nassau County communications specialist Vicki DiStefano said many people around the county still do not know where and how to get vaccinated. The new program — which brings vaccines directly to businesses for “in-house” vaccination — quickly grew in popularity, according to DiStefano. Covid infection rates have recently been on the rise in Nassau, hovering around 4 percent. Interested RCI employees, as well as eligible friends and family, received their first doses of the Moderna vaccine. The second dose will be administered at the RCI office on Sept. 24. If employees had already received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine, they were also able to receive their second shot at the pop-up site. “In Nassau County, 86.7 percent of adults 18 and older are vaccinated,” County Executive Laura Curran told the Herald, making Nassau the leading county in the state for vaccinations, and third in the country among large counties with a population of 1 million people or more. The first business vaccination pod took place at Café Baci in Westbury on Aug. 3. “Since then, dozens of businesses have reached out to us,” Curran said, adding that officials have seen a solid uptick in the vaccination rate
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At A tRAVELiNg vaccination clinic hosted by Nassau County at the Herald Community Newspapers’ office in Garden City last Friday, nurse Jeanne Ost injected RCI pressman Richard Maitland with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. since the program’s start. “With the Delta variant, we want to get everyone vaccinated,” Curran explained. The pods are run by health department nurses, all of whom have been on the front lines of vaccine administration since earlier this year. Pod manager and nurse Holly Marrano said, “We’re bringing the vaccine to local businesses to make it more
convenient for people to get vaccinated.” “We are making this as easy as possible — no excuses,” Curran said. “No business is too big or too small.” Any business interested in participating in the program and hosting a vaccine clinic for employees can reach out to the county health department at (516) 2279570, Monday through Friday. Among the RCI employees who were vaccinated was Richard Maitland, 46, of Rockaway, Queens. Maitland has been working as a pressman for the company for nine years. “I’ve been watching the news and seeing what’s going on,” Maitland said. “I’m seeing that it’s the unvaccinated that are transmitting the virus.” Saying he was never against the vaccine, he thought getting it now was the right thing to do with the infection rate on the rise, and especially since the vaccination pod made it so convenient. “No one is safe, and I don’t want to be that carrier who gets someone sick,” he added, calling to the Delta variant “round two” of the coronavirus. “I don’t want to be part of the problem,” Maitland said. “I want to be part of the solution.” That solution, according to Curran, is to vaccinate as many people as possible. Covid-19 vaccines are not 100 percent effective in preventing the disease; however, county officials are finding that those who are vaccinated and do test positive for Covid are less likely to end up with a severe case that results in hospitalization. Pod nurse Camille Laudando said the traveling vaccine clinic is all about “community outreach” and is the “definition of public health.” “The vaccine is the most effective way to prevent Covid,” Curran said. “Our residents understand the value of the vaccine.”
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Radar, metal detectors help with excavation CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE a summer vacation home for Roosevelt, year-round residents tended to the garden and the livestock. In 2010, Joel Dukes, the senior archaeologist for the Park Service’s Northeastern Region, used radar to determine what remained underground at the former site of the stable and lodge. He found a wall and a basement, convenient guides for excavators. Dukes, who is also an archaeological adviser at Peacefield, President John Adams’s home in Massachusetts, and the Statue of Liberty, reviews all projects at Sagamore Hill. Planning for the current excavation began four years ago, he said, but the coronavirus pandemic delayed the project. Excavators from the National Park Service’s Northeast Archaeological Resources program arrived on Aug. 2, amid blistering heat. And there were other challenges beside the weather. They had to dig in different locations to find the lodge walls. Although they unearthed artifacts, their focus was on finding its foundation. “What is fascinating is that the house is beautiful, intact and there are so many artifacts there and it is so close to here, but we know nothing about this site where the servants lived,” Christine Nestleroth, an archaeological technician, said. “Archaeology is finally starting to look at the working class through artifacts to see how they lived. This can tell a little bit more about their story, which wasn’t told before.” Roosevelt lived in the lodge for a year before the main house was finished in 1884. Nestleroth has surmised that T.R. had a good relationship with his servants, based on how close the lodge was to the house. “I thought the building would be more intact, that we would have a clear outline of the building, she said. “The disorganization we’re finding tells us that there was a lot of fire.” Using a trowel, Nestleroth worked methodically, crouching inside a threefoot in diameter hole, gently scraping the lodge’s foundation. Pausing to wipe away sweat, she said she was surprised by what she was seeing. “I’ve found a lot of glass melted into shapes I’ve never seen before,” she said. “It’s colorless, amber and aqua. I can tell they might have been beer bottles or medicine bottles, but some look like rocks.” Rusty nails and shreds of ceramic material, some bearing fingerprints, were also found, Nestleroth said. “This gives us an idea of what ceramics were used then, what people were using who lived here,” she said, “or [the ceramics] might be something that was passed down.” The soil Nestleroth excavated was put into buckets and taken to another member of the team, Jared Muehlbauer, who strained it through a large screen. “This allows for a more streamlined process of collecting the artifacts and placing them in the correct artifact bags,” explained Victoria Cacchione, Sagamore Hill’s interim curator. Muehlbauer bagged the soil, marking where it was found, as well as any arti-
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL TECHNICIAN CHRISTINE Nestleroth used a trowel to find artifacts in the Sagamore Hill lodge cellar.
JARED MUEHLBAUER, AN archaeological technician, sifted through dirt, looking for anything unusual.
JEN MCCANN, AN archaeological curator, weighed a pewter figurine found during the excavation of the firing range.
facts. “If I find a lot of ceramic, for example,” he said, “that could indicate where the kitchen was.” What he found wasn’t surprising, he said. It was what he wasn’t finding that was a surprise. Ceramic materials are common in sites like the lodge, but they weren’t finding much. “That’s why we’re excavating in the cellar more,” Muehlbauer said. “Maybe when demolishing the building after the fire, everything was pushed into the cellar to fill a hole. In finding structural materials, like nails, brick and motor, we can’t answer some questions but will answer others.” Metal detectors were used in the firing range, which was in the woods near the lodge. Personal objects like small toys, shell casings, an arm of a compass, a
small medallion and many bullets were found there. “There were so many, we could have been picking up bullets for the next four weeks,” Dukes said. Roosevelt used the range often, taking friends there because he believed that shooting was a valuable skill. He also brought a son of one of his staff members to the range. “He was weak from asthma when he was a child,” Dukes said, “and attributed his recovery as an adult to being in the woods.” Roosevelt’s children were known for playing tricks. Once, Dukes said, they hid behind the targets at the range and then surprised their father, who enjoyed the joke. Jennifer McCann, an archaeological curator, was tasked with cleaning the arti-
facts, and analyzing and cataloging them before driving back to Massachusetts with the “precious cargo.” Eventually they will be part of the Theodore Roosevelt Museum at the Old Orchard House. “We found three pieces of a doorknob,” she said. “The fire will make it complicated to date, because they’re altered, but we’ll take it to the lab in Boston. We’ll put it under a microscope and use different light sources.” McCann added that she was confident that all of the artifacts would be dated — even the doorknob pieces. “We have a team of catalogers that have seen so much,” she said. “It probably matches some of the doorknobs in the house. It’s a neat thing, holding something that someone used every day so long ago.”
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Monday evening at sundown, Jews all over the world will usher in Rosh Hashana, our New Year. The holiday is the beginning of the High Holy Days and celebrates the birthday of the world. We go to synagogues (this year like last, virtually or in person) to celebrate as a community. We eat a special challah that is round symbolizing the continuous cycle of the year. We dip both apples and challah into honey, as we look forward to having a sweet New Year. During our morning service, the shofar, the ram’s horn, is blown 100 times. Reform Jews read the Torah story from Genesis called the Binding of Isaac, where Abraham’s loyalty to God is tested as he brings his son to Mt. Moriah to be offered to God. At the last moment, an angel stops him and a ram, who is caught in the thicket nearby, is sacrificed to God in Isaac’s place. The piercing sounds of the ram’s horn are meant to wake us up, to stir us to action, to help us make changes, improvements in ourselves and to bring us
food insecure. How can a country closer to God. that has so much wealth have so We are charged to be introspecmuch poverty? We see the devastattive and examine our lives and our ing effects of climate deeds. Are we really livchange, yet half of the ing up to our potential, country chooses to ignore are we being the best we the science of it. We have can be? In the afternoon a Covid vaccine that of Rosh Hashana, we go to would reduce the number the beach for a Tashlich of people getting sick and (means to cast) service dying from Covid, yet peowhere we symbolically ple choose not to get it cast our sins into a flowand their choice puts the ing body of water to rid public at risk. America ourselves of what we feels different today. Hate want to let go of and Rabbi Dr. Janet crimes have risen, viobegin the New Year with a B. Liss clean slate. Between Rosh North Country lence and shootings are on the rise. There is a lot Hashana and Yom Kippur, Reform Temple to atone for and much we are to make amends work that has to be done. with anyone we have hurt With the fire at NOSH in Glen during the past year so that on Yom Cove, 500 families who have been fed Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we during the pandemic are now at risk. can make amends with God. Every year beginning on Rosh We are living in troubled times. Hashana, North Country Reform There is so much pain in our world. Temple, my congregation, has had a Fifty-four million people in our food drive to help those in our comcountry are food insecure. One in munity who are hungry. This year four children living in America are
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ou surely want your child to excel in any sport or activity he or she participates in. But what happens when your child says "I want to quit"? Do you shake your head no and say, "You have to honor your commitments," or do you call the coach to say your child won't be back? It's a dilemma for parents who want their children to expand their horizons, develop skills and build a good college résumé, but it's an equally large dilemma for the child who wants out. Some of the most common reasons a student may wish to quit a sport or activity are: It went from fun to pressure. According to Dr. Philip Dembro, life coach and author of "The Real Purpose of Parenting," "play is a necessary and healthy part of the human condition, where we begin to learn the connection between 'fun,' 'learning' and 'effort.' As a child gets older, into their 4s and 5s, they begin to take that learning into organized sports such as soccer and tee ball." This is where adults today begin to take away the fun of the game and focus solely on the outcome, which is "winning," says Dembro, "and parents often get caught up in the winning and losing." As the child gets older, the pressure to win gets more intense, so by the age of 13, winning often seems the only valued option. According to Dembro, 75 percent of kids who play a sport are quitting by age 13. The child is overscheduled. With multiple sports and activities booking up their schedules each season, children can feel stressed and overextended, then tempted to lighten their load by dropping an activity or two. They're afraid. According to Len Saunders, author of "Keeping Kids Fit," children may develop a fear of failure, fear of getting hurt, fear of losing, fear of not pleasing others or "a fear of time sensitivity, where they feel there are not enough hours in the day for everything." Your child's desire to quit will stem from his or her own particular issues, which you must find out in order to handle this dilemma. According to Robyn Odegaard,CEO and owner of Champion Performance Development and author of "Stop the Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams," the first step is listening to them. "It's amazing what kids will tell you when you ask, and then you stay quiet," she says. "So often parents don't allow enough space in the conversation for a child/teen to answer, or will ask multiple questions in succession. Asking one question and allowing the child/teen to answer
will prompt a thoughtful response. Rapid-fire questions just cause a child/teen to shut down in confusion." Some questions to ask during this conversation with your child include (courtesy of family life instructor Anastasia Gavalas): √ Why did you choose to join this activity/sport? √ What didn't happen that you were hoping to accomplish? √ What do you think would have made it better? √ What did you learn about yourself from this experience? Your child's responses will give you insight into his or her deeper experiences. Deciding What To Do Odegaard says: "Unless the situation is dangerous or emotionally damaging, you may recommend that the child live up to his commitment and finish out the season. I believe it is important for children to be taught to follow through on their commitments, particularly when other people are counting on them." Explain these values to your child, and if this is the lesson you'd like your child to learn, enforce your rule to follow through until the end of the season. Some parents help their child over this hurdle by returning fun to the activity, such as playing catch in the yard or going to the batting cages, but emphasizing enjoyment rather than pressuring to be a better hitter "so you enjoy it more." If your child rediscovers the fun aspects of the activity, he may be more comfortable staying until the end of the season. Parent Nikki Thompson enforces a rule that no quitting occurs mid-season. "If they choose not to pick it up next season, that's fine — but not before it is over," she says. "When I was a kid, I joined almost every sport and activity, but I quit before the season was over. I hardly finished anything, which created a negative cycle as an adult. I didn't want my kids to continue this vicious cycle." Thompson says she talks with her kids, encourages them and sticks with her rule. "Sticking it out is always a great option," says Saunders. "But maybe they do have a good reason for wanting to leave the sport. Yes, being on teams and clubs in high school does look great on college applications, but they're always looking at grades and test scores first anyway." An overextended, stressed and miserable child won't perform well on academics, so think carefully before you push your child to keep a commitment that is clearly causing him more harm than good. Above photo: Should your child be allowed to quit a sport or activity midseason?
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“A lot of people see a list of all the great things that are being offered,” says Lee “and sign up for everything and then they realize it’s so unrealistic with their time constraints and all the schoolwork that they have.”That’s not good — as Newman notes, it’s no fun for kids “to have so many things that they have to drop out.” An overload of extracurricular activities also doesn’t bring the perceived benefit a lot of parents and kids are looking for: a goodlooking college application. “What they’re really looking for is applicants who are well rounded and have focus. You can see they are pursuing a goal and they really like what they are doing,” Newman says.“And not just dipping their hand in this and that and the next thing so they can fill out more lines on the application.”
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By Harry Kimball he vast array of extracurricular activities offered to school-age children can be a headache for kids and parents both. They can help kids develop talents and passions and learn how to push themselves. And, of course, we want them to look like well-rounded, accomplished kids to college admissions committees. But we don’t want to run them ragged or turn them into stressed-out automatons. Even parents of young children,are feeling the pressure. After school activities have also stepped in to supplant the unsupervised “free time” we’re no longer comfortable allowing our children to have, says Rachel Cortese, a speech-language pathologist and former New York City schoolteacher. And there is a consensus that children should have the opportunity to experiment with a variety of activities in well-delineated blocks — ”structured free time,” as it is called. But how much should parents push their kids to engage — and how much is too much? The benefits In general, says Cortese,“kids tend to do really well when they have structure, and part of that structure is having an afterschool schedule.” Educational and learning specialist Ruth Lee also extols some well-known benefits of getting kids together outside of the classroom for more activities — especially the physical kind. “It gives kids social interactions,” she says, at the same time helping them “get out some of their energy so they can settle and go back to their work” after school. This is particularly important, she notes, as schools are cutting back on recess more and more. For older kids, after-school activities can be very important as protection against more dangerous activities, says clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Rooney — particularly if parents are busy at work or with other children.“Once kids get into middle school and high school,” she says, “the hour or two after school is the highest risk time for dangerous behaviors like substance abuse, because
it’s the largest chunk of time when kids are unmonitored.” And of course, more recreational activities outside of school, whether its sports, dance, theater, science, give kids another arena to demonstrate competence and mastery, which is important for their self-esteem and identity development —especially for kids who might be struggling in school. The drawbacks But what about overscheduling? It is not to be taken lightly, says Dr. Susan Newman, a social psychologist and author of, among many others,“The Case for the Only Child.” For one thing, Newman warns that mastery might suffer. “If you are spreading yourself too thin you’re not going to be able to focus and get really good at one thing.”
The school-life balance How many activities are too many? “Seven,” jokes clinical psychologist Dr. Jerry Bubrick. But really, it’s too much when afterschool activities start interfering with a child’s life. Bubrick notes that in the case of intensive commitments like sports or theater, even one activity can be too much. Bubrick has a pretty simple calculus for how much is too much.“Can you still do your homework? Can you still get 8+ hours of sleep each night? Can you still be a part of your family? Can you still hang out with your friends? If the answer is ‘no’ to one or more of these, then it’s too much.” Back to school: What’s a parent to do? Know your child. “Kids come to us with different predispositions,” Cortese says, and the best activity “depends on the individual child.” And when it comes to scheduling, kids respond better to different kinds of structure. “One kid who is highly scheduled might do very well and another might need to dial it back,” says Cortese. Courtey Child Mind Institute Above photos: Kids have lots of options these days, but an overscheduled child can go from busy to burned out in no time.
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ON THE ROAD WITH A TAKEOUT QUEEN By CATHI TUROW I’m allergic to cooking. While most people fill their ovens to prepare a meal, I fill my gas tank and drive to my favorite eateries. This month, I drove around and found some end-of-summer foods with very high “mmmmm” levels. Here’s some of the best summer-to-fall takeout in town. ■■ Youngs■ Farm (91 Hegemans Lane, Glen Head; https://youngs.farm/) The chilled corn soup will make you close your eyes and swoon “mmmmm.” The ingredients are simple (corn, onion, water, olive oil, salt and pepper). But the corn is so deliciously sweet, each spoonful makes you feel as if you’re dancing in a cornfield. Other homemade summer soups that will be in the market through the end of September are yellow squash soup with a hint of nutmeg, and gazpacho. Rating: MMMmmm! ■■ Beaches■ &■ Cream■ Soda■ Shoppe (8 Bayville Ave., Bayville; https://www. bayvilleadventurepark.com/ice-cream-
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Losos of Glen Cove (19 Glen St., Glen Cove) I drove past a temporary sign at 19 Glen Street. It said, “Losos of Glen Cove.” Would this be a new place to eat some day? Marck Benjamin, owner of the much-loved Bleu Clarinet and upcoming Losos of Glen Cove (opening in October) told me, “Losos will be a restaurant with a fusion of foods and daily family entertainment, an open mic night, karaoke, celebrity comedians and live music.” In the meantime, at the Bleu Clarinet, there’s a new cook and executive chef. Fried pork kebabs and TUROW black mushroom rice are back on the menu, along with the Bleu Burger (burger with bleu cheese oozing in the center). Rating: MmMmMMM! ■■ Sandro’s■ Italian (1496 Northern Blvd., Manhasset; chef@sandrositalian. com) Owner/chef Alessandro Acquistra, a graduate of the Culinary Institute,
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ran his family’s Italian restaurant in Queens for 20 years. Now, “Sandro” is passionate about the soft opening of his own restaurant. It has a family-neighborhood-y feel. Simple dishes are offered with the highest quality ingredients, including 12 kinds of pasta made inhouse daily, wild shrimp with saffron risotto and rigatoni Rocco with spicy vodka sauce. As a kid, Sandro remembers sitting in his cousin’s kitchen in Sicily eating whey from mozzarella with chunks of ricotta and semolina bread. Now he’s considering transforming that dish into an appetizer of whipped ricotta with herbs, orange/lemon zest, rustic bread, white truffle honey, and pistachios. Rating: MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
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hirty years ago this week, I hopped on an electric train with a brightred engine, a nervous energy pulsing through my arms and legs straight to my fingers and toes, which fidgeted uncontrollably. My head was spinning. I carried all I had in my arms — two gray suitcases of clothes, one violin in a worn brown case and one blue duffle bag with running shoes and toiletries. I was 24 and headed to the greatest adventure of my life, a twoyear bicultural SCOTT exchange that excited me, at BRINTON times vexed me and forever changed me. I served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Veliko Tarnovo, a 5,000-year-old city in central Bulgaria with a medieval fortress that was flanked by white stucco houses, squeezed onto the steep hills above the winding Yantra River. In the first week of September 1991, I left the safe haven of the training site the Peace Corps set up in Bankya, a spa resort 11 miles outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, and headed to Tarnovo, as it’s commonly known. After two and a half months of preparations, I still had no idea what to expect. I loved every minute of the next
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two years. I was part of the first group of 26 Peace Corps volunteers to enter Bulgaria after the fall of communism there a year earlier. As was the case in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania between 1989 and 1990, thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets to protest communist rule. Todor Zhivkov — the longest-serving Soviet Bloc dictator in the post-World War II era, who reigned from 1954 to 1989 — was deposed without bloodshed. In July 1990, then President Petar Mladenov, a former communist leader, quit over accusations that he had ordered tanks to roll against protesters in December 1989. People rejoiced after Mladenov’s resignation, The New York Times reported on July 7, 1990. “Never again a communist president in Bulgaria!” 5,000 protesters chanted in unison in central Sofia. To be there, in this place burning with democratic idealism after more than four decades of repressed speech and thought, was the thrill of a lifetime for an American who had freedom of speech and assembly ingrained in him. Bulgaria felt so alive. I felt so alive. People were suddenly free. As an outside observer who was quickly acculturated to Bulgarian beliefs and practices (I married a Bulgarian), I internalized their joy, their relief and,
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sometimes, their fear of a return to communism. On June 20 this year, most of the original 26 Peace Corps volunteers, our Bulgarian manager, Emil Patev, and my wife, Katerina, who was one of our language and culture trainers, gathered on Zoom to reminisce. It was perhaps the strangest feeling I’ve ever experienced. Because of the intensity of the experiences that we shared, the names and faces of my fellow volunteers were indelibly etched in my mind. I pictured them as their younger selves, and then we appeared in little boxes on a computer screen, significantly older variations of ourselves, as if this were a “Dr. Who” episode. It was jarring at first. Then we started to share what we took away from Bulgaria. Many spoke of the Bulgarian work ethic, the slower place of life, the neighborliness or the kindness they were shown by their colleagues at the schools where they taught — we were all English teachers. Happy memories coursed through my mind — meeting my lovely wife for the first time, soaking in the sights and sounds that were so different than the United States, chatting with my students, who were 17 when I met them and 19 when they graduated from the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural
ecalling a lifealtering stint in Bulgaria after the fall of communism.
Sciences, as they attended a fifth year of high school for advanced studies. That graduation, in June 1991, was among the most beautiful days of my life, aside from my wedding and the births of my children. It was a simple, short ceremony, full of music. The students poured flowers into their teachers’ hands, as is Bulgarian tradition. Katerina and I taught at the school together, and we came away with so many flowers that our tiny, rented apartment resembled a florist’s shop. I’m occasionally asked to speak to young people about my Peace Corps experiences. They often ask about the challenges, or whether I had any regrets about signing up. I can sense their trepidation. Volunteering for the Peace Corps is a monumental, life-altering decision. I used to speak of the pluses and minuses. There is, no doubt, a financial sacrifice, because you’re volunteering for two years of your life, I would say. Perhaps that was the reporter in me wanting to give both sides of the story. If they have a strong interest in joining, I tell them now, they should embrace any fears they might harbor and let the river of life take them wherever it might flow. You needn’t know where it will end up. It could take you to magical lands you never imagined. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.
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e’ve been through a lot together, you and I. Now this. As I wrote last week, my husband and I and Lillybee the dog headed out West to the Northern California mountains on Aug. 10. We drove from Denver through Cheyenne, Park City and Elko and arrived here in Tahoe-Donner on Aug. 20. We’re in a rental house perched on stilts set into a hillside, a half-hour from anything, including our kids and grandkids, who live in a nearby town. They’re the reason we came, RANDI and they’re the reaKREISS son we’re still here, 10 days into a month-long stay. We’re in the throes of a wildfire emergency, officially declared by President Biden yesterday. Smoke obscures views of the mountains. The grandkids’ school opening was delayed. The smell of smoke is in our clothes, our hair and even on the dog. The Caldor and Dixie fires are raging around us, from 45 to 100 miles away. We’re told to stay inside, not exert ourselves and
keep the windows closed. The obvious move is to leave ASAP, but that means driving back to Denver in our rental car through areas that are now smoky as well. Our children surely aren’t ready to abandon their family home. We hate to run, since the wind could change in a week, and it could be healthy to resume normal outdoor life. We don’t know when we’ll have the chance to sit down at the same table again. Our kids must figure out if their life out here is sustainable going forward. These fires aren’t going away, and it’s unlikely that it will be better next year. The snowpack has been lighter every winter, and the ground brush is drier. Tinder. No one has grass, just scrub around the homes, cut back for safety. Back home, I know you’re struggling with the Delta variant and unusual heat. We Long Islanders have had our shared disasters, mostly hurricanes, and there will likely be more this season. This is something else. People who live up here are tough and self-reliant, but everyone is shaken by the hazardous air quality and the danger of encroaching
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fires. We all have alerts set on our phones should the conditions get more dangerous. Ash falls out of the smoke clouds, irritating our eyes and throats. We have captured some moments with the grandkids, some meals, a lot of time together playing Rummikub. They seem able to be outside longer than we can, younger lungs and all that. But they are tuned in to our talk about the smoke and fire and what the options are. These kids just lived through more than a year of relative isolation during the pandemic, and so much of their hope was invested in this summer, to do the swimming and rafting and hiking that is their reason for putting up with life in the semi-wilderness. All of our kids and grandkids have tolerated so much constraint and disappointment. I hope it makes them stronger. To summon my own resolve, I’ve been reading about people who live in places where the geography or the weather or the terrain is a constant challenge and threat. Why do they stay? My husband and I can and probably will leave if the air remains unhealthy or the fires get worse; we have
ur kids must figure out if life out here is sustainable going forward.
that option. Our kids will make their own calculation of risk vs. benefit of life in these mountains. People live on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily, generation after generation, despite the inevitability of lava flows and ash that burn them out of their houses. They rebuild; they stay. Some say the reason is that the volcanic soil is fertile and produces the best olives and olive oil in the world. People in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., know for sure that periodic super-floods will drive them from their homes, but they come back and they build again. Why does anyone live in New Orleans? Or on any barrier island? Why didn’t we all flee after Hurricane Sandy? Ultimately people look around and decide that the benefit outweighs the risk of living near a volcano or in a flood plain or on a fire-scarred mountaintop. We would not have come to California now if we knew how the smoke and fire would look and feel and taste. The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday read: “Caldor Fire Knocking on the Door of Tahoe Basin.” The fire is knocking, and there isn’t much here to keep it out. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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Get your teenagers vaccinated ASAP . . .
ome 87 percent of Nassau County’s adult population, ages 18 and up, has received at least a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bravo, Nassau! That’s a remarkable statistic, well ahead of the state average of 79.3 percent. Nearly a million people have been vaccinated here, and we could soon reach that threshold. But here’s the thing: Looking at all age groups in the county, only 73 percent of the total population has gotten at least one dose. That’s because children are ineligible, and only about 49 percent of teenagers, ages 12 to 18, had received a first dose as of last Friday, even though 16- and 17-year-olds have been eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine since April, and 12- to 15-year-olds since May. Clearly, we must focus our efforts on vaccinating teens. With school starting in many districts this week, and therefore with students starting to congregate in large groups five to six days a week, there is the potential for the virus to spread rapidly in this population, and then to be passed on to unvaccinated adults and even
to the relatively small number of vaccinated people who will get Covid despite being inoculated. Nassau County government now has an excellent program that brings a team of vaccinators to a workplace on request. It’s all about making the vaccine readily available to people who are too busy or otherwise unable to break away from work to get inoculated. The Herald Community Newspapers took part last Friday afternoon, and the vaccination team did all the work. Similarly, the county and the Town of Hempstead, each of which has a mobile inoculation unit, should bring the vaccination fight to our schools, one by one, starting in low-income areas, where parents may be unable to take their teens to a vaccination site because they’re working long hours and worry about taking time off. We’ve already seen mobile units brought to a small number of school districts like Freeport, but the effort should be rapidly expanded to all 54 Nassau districts. At the same time, parents should seek to have their teens vaccinated. With the
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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine receiving full approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration for those 16 and over, we should all feel confident about its efficacy and safety. It will now be marketed as Comirnaty, according to the FDA. For those ages 12 to 15, the Pfizer vaccine will continue to be available under an emergency-use authorization. The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are likely to receive FDA approval for 12- to 17-year-olds in the coming months. Clinical trials are still under way to test all three vaccines for children ages 5 to 11. It’s uncertain when, precisely, they might receive approval under emergency-use authorization for this age group. It could be as early as this fall, though that seems unlikely now. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that authorization would more likely come by late December. The bottom line for parents: Have your children vaccinated as soon as humanly possible.
LETTERS Happy birthday, President Johnson To the Editor: The late President Lyndon Johnson was born Aug. 27, 1908. Many remember him for succeeding President John F. Kennedy after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Others remember him for his domestic Great Society program, which included civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty and public broadcasting. There was also foreign policy, most notably the Vietnam War. Few remember that the success of public transportation can be traced back to one of Johnson’s greatest accomplishments, which continues to benefit many Americans today. On July 9, 1964, he signed the Urban Mass Transportation Act into
ate. There’s no need to scare young children. They need to be reassured that they will be safe in school. Meanwhile, teens might need a more frank discussion. PBS Kids for Parents has an excellent primer on “How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus” that’s worth a quick read. You can find it at www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kidsabout-coronavirus.
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n the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride,” Vizzini, a Sicilian assassin, warns Wesley, also known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders — the most famous of which is, ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’” The United States fell into that classic blunder when it ignored 19th-century British debacles during the First AngloAfghan War (18391843) and the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) and pretended it could avoid the ALAN fate of the Soviet Union in the SoviSINGER et-Afghan War (1979-1988). A 1979 internal memo to the Soviet Union’s governing Politburo explained why “nation building” by the Soviet Union was doomed to failure. The reactionary forces described in the memo are now known as the Taliban. “The Afghan reactionary forces,” the memo stated, “are very skillfully taking advantage of the almost complete illiteracy of the population, complex interna-
tional and intertribal conflicts, religious fanaticism and nationalism. Subversive actions, sabotage and the resistance of the overthrown class of exploiters are deepening the economic problems, lowering industrial and agricultural output, as well as hampering business activity, raising prices and reducing the influx of revenue into the state budget.” The memo warned the Politburo that “the use of Soviet troops in repressing the Afghan counterrevolution would seriously damage the international authority of the USSR.” In his 2010 memoir “Decision Points,” former President George W. Bush tried to justify the 2001 decision to invade Afghanistan and the prolonged war that followed. This wasn’t just about revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, or a strategy to kill Osama bin Laden and destroy Al Qaeda. According to Bush, “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation-building mission. We had liberated the country from a primitive dictatorship, and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better. We also had a strategic interest in helping the Afghan people build a free
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erhaps every candidate for president should be a certified historian.
LETTERS law. It has resulted in the investment of several hundred billion dollars in public transportation under grants from the Federal Transit Administration, which before 1991 was known as the Urban Mass Transit Administration. Even with Covid-19, millions of Americans continue using various public transportation alternatives, including local and express buses, ferries, jitneys, light rail, subways and commuter rail services. Investment in public transportation today contributes to economic growth, employment and a stronger economy. Dollar for dollar, it is one of the best investments we can make. LARRY PENNER Great Neck Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.
State is now offering Excluded Workers Fund To the Editor: New York state’s Excluded Workers Fund, which is intended to provide much-needed relief to workers cut off from government unemployment bene-
society. The terrorists took refuge in places of chaos, despair and repression. A democratic Afghanistan would be a hopeful alternative to the vision of the extremists.” The nation-building task was “more daunting” than Bush and his advisers anticipated because of their ignorance about Afghanistan and because they apparently never consulted either Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook. It is a mountainous region of tribes, clans and linguistic groups, with millions of people who have little connection to those outside their locality or village. The constitution of Afghanistan, written in 2004 under U.S. auspices, recognizes 14 major ethno-linguistic groups. The largest is the Pashtun, who make up almost half of the population of the country and are the dominant group in the Taliban. If only the Bush administration in 2001, or policymakers in the Obama and Trump administrations, had watched “The Princess Bride” or had access to the Soviet Politburo memo. I found it, quite easily, translated from Russian to English, on the website of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The memo, “Our Future Policy in Connection with the Situation in Afghanistan,” became available to the public in 1993. As President Biden made clear in a speech to the American public, “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces [from Afghanistan] . . . There is no chance that one year — one more year, five more years or 20 more years of U.S. military boots on the ground would’ve made any difference.” After the diplomatic, military and human disaster in Afghanistan, maybe there should be a constitutional qualification for becoming president of the United States: that a candidate be a certified historian. The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians could review all candidates the way legal organizations review potential judicial appointments. Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.
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fits and stimulus checks during the pandemic, is now accepting applications. Any workers who were not eligible for enhanced Covid-19 pandemic unemployment benefits can apply. The funds do not need to be paid back, and this relief is available regardless of immigration status. Please visit https://dol.ny.gov/EWF for more information and to apply. I thank state leaders for their efforts to maximize the scope of our Covid-19 relief initiatives. In the weeks ahead, I look forward to sharing information about the Excluded Workers Fund at community events and with our local faith and civic leaders to ensure that economic relief reaches the maximum number of Nassau residents possible. CARRIÉ SOLAGES Nassau County legislator, Lawrence
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