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  to such splendid weather before the traffic crashed back over us again in torrents and I lost you in the slanting rearview mirror.’’ -- From “A Break in the Weather,’’ by Paul Mariani (born 1940), an American poet and professor emeritus of literature at Boston College   “It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.’’ Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Supreme Court justice and solicitor general and perhaps best known as the chief U.S. prosecutor at th...

DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199766581-0244 Introduction While it is certainly true that more academic studies have focused on the North American missions, in terms of their historical impact South American missions were just as important to the frontiers of Spain and Portugal’s American empires. The massive size alone of the frontier region, stretching from the upper reaches of the Amazon basin to the headwaters of the Paraná as well as stretching across the lower Southern Cone, meant numerous missionary enterprises emerged in an attempt to evangelize the peoples who inhabited these regions. Whil...

“I toast democracy not alone for what it is, but chiefly for what it may become; not merely for what it has done, but also for what it makes possible for us a

The OBSERVER's View Jan 8, 2021 “I toast democracy not alone for what it is, but chiefly for what it may become; not merely for what it has done, but also for what it makes possible for us and our children to do. … It leaves our destiny with no limitations except those which our own minds impose and no pitfalls except those that might be dug by a failing faith. It is our heritage and our hope — and we mean to keep it.” — Robert H. Jackson, January 19, 1941, keynote speech at a Washington, D.C., gala dinner for the presidential electors. We live in a time of division, but even in t...

John Whittaker Pictured are Allie Burdick, Cattaraugus County commander; Jim Lemanski, Chautauqua County commander; Howie Van Rennselaer; Stan Kawski, 8th District chaplain; and Steve McCord, 8th district service officer and Cattaraugus County director of Veteran Services. Submitted photos Editor’s Note: The Post-Journal is looking back at the top stories of 2020 and the way they will shape the coming year. Today, 20 for 2020 looks at the municipal stories that were among the most-read in the newspaper this year. Chautauqua County is home to 134,000 or so people, depending on the time of y...