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May 23, 2019

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MCCSD passes 2019-20 budget Middle Country Central School District residents passed the district’s $257,435,446 budget, 1,513 to 545.

The 2019-20 budget stays under the tax levy and is a more than $7 million increase from last year’s budget.

The tax levy increase is 2.47 percent, and according to the board, there will be no reduction of programs or services and includes a multiyear contract for transportation.

Part of the proposed budget includes $189,419,536 for salaries and benefits, $19,514,657 for BOCES, $18,377,310 for debt service and $24,446,737 for contractual items, tuition and transfers.

In an uncontested board of education trustee election, Robert Feeney, Kristopher Oliva and Dawn Sharrock won their seats back, with 1,501, 1,424 and 1,463 votes, respectively.

Superintendent of Schools Roberta Gerold commented on the results in an email.

“Thank you to the entire Middle Country community for supporting the district’s 2019-2020 budget and the ever-expanding opportunities we are able to offer our students,” Gerold said. “The district’s board, central administration, teachers and staff members will continue to provide students with an educational experience — based on the principle of empowering the problem solvers of tomorrow — from the moment they enter pre-K to the day of their high school graduation.

“This is all made possible by the community’s continued support and years of thoughtful financial planning and sound decision making — allowing for a budget that was below the district’s tax levy cap while still offering our expansive programs and services. The district looks forward to many more years of playing a role in helping your children reach their goals and preparing them for a promising future,” she added.

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Stony Brook University is bringing back a program that has included past international students and community members, with the hope to extend its reach.

This past academic year, the former Host Family Program at the university was put on hold as school administrators and former host families discussed how to bring the program back under one of the university’s departments. For more than 40 years, under the direction of Stony Brook resident Rhona Goldman, it provided international students opportunities to learn about the U.S. and the local area by developing relationships with volunteer individuals and families. Students and community members would meet up and go shopping or sightseeing, have dinner or share in other activities.

Lindsi Walker, senior assistant dean for the International Academic Programs and Services at SBU, said the new program is called the International Friends and Family Program and operates under the auspices of the university’s Visa and Immigration Services.

The assistant dean said the reorganization was done with the hope of giving the program a fresh overview, to bring it back in a bigger way, to reach more students and community members and establish safeguards. Over the last year, the university held focus groups with prior participants that Walker said provided essential feedback.

Harold Metcalf, an SBU faculty member and Stony Brook resident, has participated in the program since the early 1970s and engaged with the focus groups. Metcalf said he and many other former host families are pleased that the program will return. In the past, he and his wife hosted two students per academic year.

While Metcalf is looking forward to continuing to participate in the program, he credited Goldman for her work through the decades, saying it was “an amazing task that she took on.” He said while the former program had cooperation from university administrators, it relied more on word of mouth and announcements on church bulletin boards to spread the word to interested parties.

Walker said it was discovered during focus groups that many former students and hosts are still connected, something that Metcalf can attest to as he still keeps in touch with many of the former students he and his wife hosted.

“You can see how, really for a lot of them, these are deep connections that really give them a positive experience here at Stony Brook because it connects them with the area and the community in a deep way,” Walker said. “And we found that was reciprocated by the community as well. A lot of them have those same feelings.“ The university has taken some of the comments from the focus groups and posted them on its website.

“It is a great exposure for international students,” Gurveen Saluja of India said. “It helps to understand the American culture and also give us an opportunity to share our culture as well.”

Walker said how much time a student and host spend together is up to them, and a host can be married, single, a parent, child-free, retired or employed.

“The ideal host family is any individual or family who really is willing and passionate about our community and our area and able to connect with an international student,” she said.

Community members interested in the International Friends and Family Program can visit www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/visa/lifeat-sbu/ and find the application, due by July 1, by clicking on “International Friends and Family Program.”

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Protesters condemn abortion laws in southern states

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Holding coat hangers and signs high above their heads, nearly 20 protesters stood at the corner of Nesconset Highway and Route 112 shouting “Keep your hands off our bodies,” and “We won’t go back.”

The locals, organized by the North Shore Peace group, came out in protest decrying several states’ moves to severely restrict abortion, including Alabama, Georgia, Ohio and Missouri. In Alabama’s case, abortion will be restricted to only in cases that the woman’s health is in danger. It also restricts abortion for people who are victims of rape, and doctors who perform abortions could face up to 99 years in prison.

The laws have largely been seen as

attempts to move abortion to the plate of the U.S. Supreme Court in the hopes that landmark case Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortions, would be overturned.

Protesters held coat hangers high above their heads to symbolize the instrument used when abortions were illegal to perform “backroom” unsanitary abortions, often out of desperation.

“I’m speechless, I just don’t know what to say anymore,” said Myrna Gordon, a protest organizer.

One protester, Janet Sklar, had a charm necklace that she plucked out of her shirt and laid over her sign. One charm, a coat hanger, had been on that necklace for close to 40 years.

“We were marching in the ʼ70s for this, and look how far we haven’t come,” she said.

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V. DEBORAH STROBECK A/K/A DEBORAH L. STROEBECK A/K/A DEBORA L. HANSON A/K/A DEBBIE HANSON; ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 14, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk, wherein MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P., is the Plaintiff and DEBORAH STROBECK A/K/A DEBORAH L. STROEBECK A/K/A DEBORA L. HANSON A/K/A DEBBIE HANSON; ET AL. are the Defendants. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the BROOKHAVEN TOWN HALL, 1 INDEPENDENCE HILL, FARMINGVILLE, NY 11738, on June 19, 2019 at 9:30AM, premises known as 273 MAGNOLIA DR, SELDEN, NY 11784: District 0200, Section 393.00, Block 03.00, Lot 003.000: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN, SUFFOLK COUNTY, STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 13165/2013. PAMELA J. GREENE, ESQ. - Referee.

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613 5/16 4x tmc LEGAL NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York, on the 14th day of May, 2019, subject to a per-

The CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT maintains a Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund for Equipment under Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law in which account there is sufficient funds to accomplish the purpose hereinafter set forth; namely, the purchase of an ambulance and associated equipment, and it is proposed to contract for such vehicle in order to maintain the high standards of performance of the CENTEREACH FIRE DEPARTMENT in the discharge of its duties in preserving the lives and property of the residents of the community, and said purchase is deemed in the best interests of the residents of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT. The resolution further provides that there be transferred from the present Section 6(g) Capital Reserve Fund For Equipment of the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT a sum not to exceed Two Hundred Forty Five Thousand ($245,000.00) Dollars for the purchase, and the District Treasurer is authorized to effect such transfer from time to time to effect such purchase.

This resolution shall not take effect until thirty (30) days unless in the meanwhile a mandatory referendum as provided for in Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law is required to be held.

DATED: May 14, 2019 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN ATTEST: Jennifer Gardner Secretary RESOLUTION PURCHASE OF AMBULANCE WHEREAS, the CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT has, by appropriate resolution established a certain Capital Reserve Fund designated as the Capital Reserve Fund

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IT IS RESOLVED, that pursuant to the laws and regulations applicable and in particular, Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law, that said purchase be completed, and that the cost and expense for the purchase shall be expended from the Capital Reserve Fund For Equipment upon authorization of the Board of Fire Commissioners, at the maximum estimated amount of Two Hundred Forty Five Thousand ($245,000.00) Dollars, and THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution is subject to a permissive referendum as provided for in Section 6(g) of the General Municipal Law. The adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly put to a vote and upon roll call the vote was as follows: Commissioner Thomas Doyle

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Above, the stranded anglers in their raft; right, photo of the three individuals. Photos from SCPD

Police rescue three stranded men off North Shore coast

Suffolk police rescued three men who became stranded in a 6-foot inflatable raft in the Long Island Sound May 19.

Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau officers were notified by the U.S. Coast Guard at approximately 4:30 p.m. of an inflatable raft with three male occupants that were unable to make it back to shore. The three were fishing in the Long Island Sound, near Crane Neck Road in

Old Field, when they were pulled approximately 2 miles off shore. Their boat did not have a motor and they were unable to paddle back due to winds blowing between 15 and 20 miles per hour.

Marine Bureau officers Robert Daniels and Peter Bogachunas responded in Marine Delta and located the men within 15 minutes of the initial call. All three occupants, Martin Villatoro, 23, Erick Villatoro, 26, and Ronald Benitez, 17, all of Bay Shore, were transported in Marine Delta, along with their raft, to Sunken Meadow State Park.

All three were wearing life vests and they were not injured.

— compiled by Kyle Barr

Police seek man for allegedly purchasing with counterfeit bills Suffolk County Police 6th Squad detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate a man who allegedly used counterfeit currency at a Centereach store in May. A man bought $400 worth of merchandise from Walmart, located at 161 Centereach Mall, with several counterfeit $20 bills May 1 at approximately 4 p.m.

— compiled by Kyle Barr

Security photo of man who allegedly used counterfeit $20 bills. Photo from SCPD

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 800-220-TIPS (8477) or texting “SCPD” and your message to “CRIMES” (274637). All calls and text messages will be kept confidential.

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School News

Middle Country Central School District learning as she continuously strives to improve her academic abilities. After graduating, Mzobe plans on attending Stony Brook University in the fall and is set to double major in neuroscience and chemistry.

Academic accolades

The Middle Country Central School District announced its April students of the month at its recent board of education meeting.

Centereach High School senior Zanab Qureshi, Newfield High School senior Jennifer Mzobe, Dawnwood Middle School seventh-grade student Nora Pedersen and Selden Middle School eighth-grade student Kevin Cosgrove were all honored for their accomplishments in academics, dedicated membership in a wide array of extracurricular activities and for serving as young leaders to their peers and school communities.

“We are consistently proud to recognize four highly motivated young people each month who encompass the values of Middle Country Central School District,” said Superintendent of Schools Roberta Gerold. “Based on the accomplishments they have accumulated at such young ages, we are confident these students will go on to achieve even greater things as they continue their educational journeys.”

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Middle Country Central School District students Zanab Qureshi, Jennifer Mzobe, Nora Pedersen and Kevin Cosgrove. Photos from Middle Country Central School District.

Awareness Night, she is a dedicated member of the Art Honor Society, Video Club and Best Buddies. She has a passion for volunteering and gives her time to Life Skills Social at the end of each school year.

Qureshi is described by her teachers as someone who has incredible patience with others and who always looks to find the best in everyone. Her teachers are also impressed with her willingness to assist others and with her ever-growing leadership skills. Upon graduation, Qureshi plans to further her studies at Suffolk County Community College before attending a four-year institution — where she plans to study to become a psychologist.

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Centereach High School senior Qureshi was honored for her academic growth, overall positive attitude and extracurricular involvement. Not only is Qureshi a mainstay at her school’s PTSA Fashion Show and Asian

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The Mad Dogs let their sticks do the talking in the second half, scoring seven more goals than their opponent to win the game, 16-9.

Senior midfielder Sophie Alois, pictured above right on left-

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Seniors Jennifer Barry, pictured above left and below left, No. 5, and Sydney Juvelier both had three goals each. Eighth-grader Kate Timarky, middle photo below, topped the chart with three goals and three assists. Senior Sydney Corley scored as did sophomores Alexa Cordingley and Alyssa Oddo. Senior goalie Elizabeth Pomaro, lower right photo, had four saves on the day.

In victory, Middle Country, 14-2 in the league, advances to the semifinal round where they’ll host Riverhead May 23. Game time is 4 p.m.

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The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution specifically protects the practice of religion in this country. While there have been few exceptions to this rule, mostly in cases where a religion may lead to harm, it has constantly and clearly protected the rights of people to practice in the way they see fit.

When a recent story by TBR News Media broke on social media, based on several readers’ comments, it looked like many people were confused when it came to freedom of religion.

The article reported on a Stony Brook University graduate wearing a turban, who was refused admission into a Port Jefferson restaurant because the establishment has a noheadgear policy on Friday and Saturday nights. The manager was allegedly sticking to the restaurant’s policy, while either being unaware or ignoring the unconstitutionality of refusing a person service based on religious attire. The customer in question practices Sikhism, where males wear turbans as articles of faith in public.

While the restaurant owner said he would change the rule, the event and comments on social media showcase a particular ignorance of the most foundational law in the U.S. Unfortunately, many readers have said they thought the manager had the right to make the call and refuse the graduate service.

They are wrong. Our Constitution protects our expression of religion, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin — or religion. Whether a Sikh is wearing a turban, or a Jewish man is wearing a yarmulke, they cannot be asked to remove their head covering in order to get a drink or something to eat, just like service can’t be denied to a nun in her habit or a Muslim woman wearing a hijab.

Freedom of religion in this country even protects employees of that restaurant and other businesses when it comes to practicing their religions. State and federal laws, unless causing undue hardship on the operation of business, require employers to make accommodations, within reason, for workers whether they need a break to pray or take a day off to observe their Sabbath or celebrate a religious holiday. The employer may ask them to make up the hours, but they can’t deny an employee time off for religious reasons unless it will be detrimental to a business, for example, due to a small staff. So, whether a Christian can’t work Sundays, or a Muslim needs to take a break to pray, an employer cannot dissuade them from doing so.

Employers must also allow dress and grooming practices that employees follow for religious reasons, including not only head coverings but certain hairstyles or facial hair such as the Sikh beard. So, as Americans, whether it’s as a customer or an employee, we are free to practice our religions.

Sikhs have been active in the U.S. Armed Forces, where they have been given special exception to wear turbans, while remaining as dedicated as any other service member. As we celebrate Memorial Day, May 27, remembering those who died to protect our rights, let us also not forget the principles that are being protected.

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The offices of TBR News Media will be closed to the public on Monday, May 27, to honor Memorial Day. The offices will reopen on Tuesday, May 28, and be open on Thursday, May 30, the traditional Memorial Day.

Honor service this Memorial Day Every year, we pause to honor the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice defending this great nation and our cherished way of life.

Their selfless acts of courage protect the rights and freedoms we enjoy as Americans, and their memories will forever be in our hearts and minds.

In recognition of Memorial Day,

it is my hope that everyone in our community can devote some time to pay tribute to these fallen heroes and to let their families know that their sacrifice is remembered.

To make it more convenient for residents in our area to attend an event, my website (flanagan.nysenate.gov) has a special Memorial Day section with a

listing of all parades and observations in our area.

Thank you for giving recognition to our brave service men and women, and may God bless the United States of America.

John Flanagan State Senator, 2nd Senate District East Northport

Commercial GPS mandate will save lives In April 2018, a charter bus carrying 38 students and five chaperones crashed into a low overpass on the Southern State Parkway, seriously injuring several teens and sending others to the hospital. Unfortunately, this was not the first crash nor was it the last.

Over the years, buses striking overpasses have become commonplace on Long Island’s parkways. The issue?

Outdated infrastructure not suitable to the taller trucks and buses of today, errors on the part of bus companies, the drivers who fail to abide by rules meant to keep them off parkways, and out-of-state drivers oft general unfamiliarity with Long Island.

There are legislative changes that New York State can make to prevent these tragedies from taking place again. One, is

my bill to require a commercial GPS device in charter buses. As I write this, the State Senate is set to vote on this bill, which would provide an important safety tool for charter bus drivers.

Many of the horrific crashes that we’ve seen were the result of drivers using GPS devices intended for passenger vehicles.

Passenger GPS devices fail to detect low overpasses on the parkways, a unique and ever-present characteristic across Long Island’s parkways.

My bill will fix this by requiring charter buses to use commercial GPS, which alerts drivers to low overpasses, and properly divert the buses to a safe route. It will prevent tragic accidents like the ones that have become too common on the Northern State

and Southern State parkways in recent years and ensure the safety of bus passengers.

Other measures like warning signs and the installation of an electronic warning system along parkway entrances are smart and should be expanded. But drivers need to bear responsibility, particularly when they are carrying buses full of passengers, sometimes students. An inexpensive commercial GPS system will warn drivers about safer routes and low overpasses.

The bottom line is overpass hits need to stop. And this critical step by the State Senate will go a long way toward making Long Island’s roads safer.

Jim Gaughran State Senator, 5th Senate District Northport

May 23, 2019 • THE TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY • PAGE A23

Opinion

Questions for the posse of presidential candidates

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s I write, we are 530 days away from the 2020 election. It’s nice that so many people want to lead this nation. Notwithstanding William Weld, the former Massachusetts governor who is a GOP challenger, it seems clear that the Republican nominee will be President Donald Trump, while the Democratic nominee could come from any of at least 23 candidates — D. None and counting. of the above I’d like to ask these candidates a

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF few questions to get the ball rolling.

1. How will you try to unify the nation?

Clearly, we are a divided country. We can’t agree

on anything from abortion to gay marriage to the job Trump is currently doing. We have become the Divided States of America. That doesn’t sit well with those of us who have enjoyed the benefits of a country pulling together through so many crises and conflicts, and who have appreciated the opportunity to travel from state to state, feeling like a part of something that spreads from sea to shining sea — and to Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam. What will you do in the interest of unity?

2. Is there any way to bring the world closer together? If an extraterrestrial force landed today and threatened society, we would set aside our geographic and historic squabbles, and work together to understand this new species and protect ourselves. Why would it take such a threat to unify humans?

Is there any way to spread peace, while allowing for differences? If you believe peace is possible, in what turbulent area would you start and how would you bring any two sides together?

3. Can we establish any political rules? It seems that the old days of agreeing to disagree or civil discourse are gone. Were those measured words and polite disagreements a matter of political correctness and do some candidates benefit from attacking each other?

Would all of the candidates agree to a level of respect for each other, for the process and for the American populace?

4. What kind of role model will you be as president? Can you lay out any rules you would follow as president, in terms of what you would do and what you wouldn’t, as our leader? What should the penalty be for you if you don’t follow your own rules?

5. How will you measure your own success?

It’s so easy to declare yourself a winner and to tell the country and the world what a great success you are. So many of you will run under the banner of bringing change or steering the nation toward a better or, some might say, great future. Don’t just tell us you’re wonderful, give us an idea of how to recognize it. What metrics

will you use to know that you’re successful? Are the polls more important, or is the economy, the stock market or anything else a good barometer of your success?

6. What will you offer children that they don’t get now? Parents often care more about their children than they do about themselves.

What will you do to make schools, food choices, activities or other options better for children than they are today?

7. How will you protect our elections? It’s clear that other nations feel like they can influence our elections. What can you do to ensure that the process proceeds as it should?

8. What’s wonderful or great about your spouse or partner? What do you admire about this person and what is one of your favorite memories with him or her?

9. Do the ends justify the means? Is it as important to ensure that the journey obeys certain rules and that the country follows a specific compass, or is it acceptable to get to the final destination by any means necessary?

We were introduced by the Three Village Historical Society

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She was actually born Sarah Margaret Fuller, named after both her grandmothers, until she dropped the first name at age 9. She was in other ways a precocious child, too, the oldest of Massachusetts lawyer and Congressman Timothy Fuller’s children, and he taught her to read and write before age 4. Fuller, a Harvard grad, was such a stern teacher that he forbade Between her reading sentiyou and me mental novels and

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF instead gave her what was then, at the beginning of the 19th century, a vigorous

classical education — indeed a rarity for a woman at that time.

Margaret Fuller grew up expecting to be exceptional, and she was: as a journalist, editor, literary critic and women’s rights advocate. She strenuously protested slavery, homelessness and other injustices. She advocated for education for women. She also was reputed to be the best read person in all of New England. She was the only woman allowed to use the Harvard library for her research. Her breakthrough book was “Woman in the Nineteenth Century,” considered the first major feminist work in the United States, and she was friends and the intellectual equal of such luminaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne — said to have modeled Hester Prynne after her, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and admired by Edgar Allan Poe. She died in 1850 at age 40 in a shipwreck off Fire Island, with her Italian count husband — if they ever married — and 2-year-old son, within sight of the shoreline. Her ship, the Elizabeth, ran aground on a sandbar as it was being captained by the first mate. The event

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was in all the metropolitan newspapers four days after the tragedy, once word could get out after the gale passed that had come sweeping up the East Coast, destroying the ship. Fuller had been sent by her publisher, Horace Greeley of the New-York Daily Tribune, to Europe from which she filed dispatches for four years, first from England and then from the 1848 revolutionary wars raging in Italy. In effect, she was this nation’s first female wartime correspondent.

Fuller’s life was honored with a book, “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli,” a flattering portrait edited jointly by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Freeman Clarke and William Henry Channing, all of whom rushed to get it out in print before, they feared, her reputation would die. In fact, it was the bestselling book in the United States until Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

Margaret Fuller was a remarkable woman, and I am glad to meet her. How did we happen to meet?

We were introduced by Angela Reich and the Three Village Historical Society. Reich

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wrote a book called “Shipwreck of Hopes,” about the ship Elizabeth, and although this is fiction, the author spent a great deal of time getting the historic context right. She traveled to Harvard, poured over original letters and manuscripts, and otherwise discovered that there were thousands of shipwrecks off the Fire Island coast. Yes, thousands! This just happened to be one of them, and this one carried a famous passenger.

It is a wonderful thing that we can listen to a writer discuss his or, in this instance, her book and all that went into the writing, dressed in our daytime suburban-casual clothes, enjoying other community members similarly gathered and even a little homemade carrot cake on a given Monday night. In the process we learned some local history and met two worthy women: Margaret Fuller and Angela Reich.

We live in a terrific place where such delights — theater, music, documentaries, political debates and book discussions — frequently happen. All we have to do is get off the sofa after dinner and go to them. It’s often hard but so worth the effort.

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