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Here it is, right in front of us, the Great American Feast, Thanksgiving, the beacon that next comes the gift-giving holidays, a sharing of things we hope others will love as much as we love giving them. There is nothing I love giving more than books, sharing ones I’ve discovered over the past year. And […]
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DAVID MOLYNEAUX St. Martin, Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean â For the first time in more than 15 months, vacationers from North America began boarding in June a small selection of cruise ships that have been activated from their slumber during the pandemic. Among them is the 312-passenger Star Breeze that glided out of the harbor at Philipsburg, bound for ⦠maybe St. Bartâs, said the captain, maybe not. Even the captain did not know where we were going. Turned out that our expected one-week itinerary changed nearly every day, and passengers were confined to a vacat...
History is full of some pretty amazing jerks. Take Charles Dickens. The English novelist known for classics such as “A Christmas Carol” and “David Copperfield” dumped his wife and their 10 children for a woman 27 years younger than he was. Jerk. Then there is John Adams. In 1798, our second president and Founding Father signed the Alien and Sedition Acts to silence his political opponents. Jerk. There have been some noted female jerks in history as well. From 1829-31, Floride Calhoun, the wife of vice president John Calhoun, led the shunning of Margaret “Peggy” Eaton, the wife of...