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Two groups – one conservative, the other liberal – walked into a Zoom class …
A just-completed Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course helped Mainers and Mississippians bridge the Great Political Divide.
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From the start, it was an audacious idea: Take a dozen or so liberals from Maine and a dozen or so conservatives from Mississippi, combine them all into an eight-week Zoom course on politics, core beliefs and everything in between, and see what happens.
“My ultimate goal is to challenge folks to think in new ways,” Mike Berkowitz told me in an email back in February. “It’s my modest attempt to work on the us-versus-them orientation that is crippling our citizens, our Congress, and our country.”
It s surprisingly easy to end up in an unmarked grave, even buried in a city cemetery.
David Holt, an associate professor of geography at the University of Southern Mississippi, pointed at an orange flag next to a pink plastic flower stuck in the ground on Saturday afternoon at Hasley Cemetery in West Monroe. You can see how easy to lose where that flower is, he said. It s not like a metal marker, you could lose those too. They rust over time, or the lawnmower hits it once, off it goes. They re trained not to do that, but they get older and older and older. That flower, it s going to be an unmarked grave in a handful of years.