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WESTFORD He is known for his haunting tales, such as The Cask of Amontillado, and his eerie poetry, perhaps most famously, The Raven.
But Edgar Allan Poe, the master of horror literature, also has ties to the town, where he visited not long before his death in 1849.
The Westford Historical Society and Museum is hosting Recitations from Edgar Allan Poe and the Fireside Poets, a virtual event set for Jan. 19 Poe s birth date.
Poe was born in Boston Jan. 19, 1809 first of many ties to the local area.
Let’s help because charity keeps the world ticking
03 Jan 2021 Dr Omar Atiq “Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said.
Yes, we often overlook the impact that our gentle acts of kindness can have on people.
The groundswell of generosity should gush out from the heart. Unfortunately, a few people are naturally inclined to charity. However, there are some sparkling models. A Pakistani-American doctor decided to waive costs of treatment for his patients in what can only be described as a sparkling example of charity in these coronavirus times. The bills were worth a gargantuan $650,000.
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But perhaps that was thought to be too explicit. Some on the Left have settled on rewriting the story of the Pilgrims: they were not settlers, but instead “refugees” and “illegal immigrants,” as I wrote when describing the effort to Hispanicize Thanksgiving.
Of course this is wrong, given that a country must already exist for the refugees or illegal immigrants to go to. But recasting the narrative that way enlists the Pilgrims as partners in The Great Replacement being orchestrated by today’s refugees and illegal aliens.
How, the argument goes, can we deport illegal immigrants today? The Pilgrims were illegal too! And they were refugees from religious oppression! How dare we deny Islamic refugees a place in this Melting Pot this Nation of Immigrants!
Well, 2020 certainly didn’t turn out to be the year we expected!
On 31st December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission released a briefing on its website about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology. The message from news agencies who picked up the story was the exact cause remained unclear, and it would be premature to speculate.
No-one would have thought that by 31st December 2020, the novel coronavirus, identified as COVID-19, would have infected over 83 million people globally and have claimed more than 1.8 million lives.
Today, as we look back on the difficult year that was 2020, let’s have a look at some of the things that have happened here in Fethiye and across Turkey.