The following appeared in the Bangor Daily News, 10/20/12. It also is highlighted on America’s Black Holocaust Museum. In recent weeks, homeowners in Virginia, Texas, Colorado and Washington state have hung empty chairs from trees. This comes in the wake of actor Clint Eastwood’s empty chair speech at the Republican National Convention. Never mind […]
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- “We do not choose our past. We inherit it. Thus, in all our most essential traits, we do not choose our identity. We have to live with it.” Paul K. Conkin, “Hot, Humid, and Sad” Journal of Southern History LXIV:1 (Feb 1998)