Today, 1 percent controls 90 percent of the wealth. Will there be an unstoppable shift away from democracy?
Tag: Theodore Roosevelt
CONNECTIONS: A tribute to Ellen Greendale, lover of gardens
The wedding present Irene Botsford Hoffmann received from her father was a house. It was built on her 43-acre property and named Overbrook.
CONNECTIONS: Culture in the country, culture in the city
The Sketch Club was founded by Berkshire native and Great Barrington attorney William Cullen Bryant. With friends, Bryant transformed the Sketch Club into the Century Association.
CONNECTIONS: An accident brings a president to the Red Lion Inn
As a result of the Sept. 6, 1901, assassination of President McKinley, three things happened: Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States, the function of the Secret Service expanded to include guarding the U.S. president and William Craig was assigned to guard Roosevelt.
CONNECTIONS: The Red Lion Inn guestbook summons history
So a Revolutionary War hero and every American president between from 1885 and 1945 (except No. 4) visited the inn, and even that is not the Red Lion’s only claim to fame.
CONNECTIONS: When trolleys linked the Berkshires
Frank J. Sprague was credited with the invention of the electric trolley but a Stockbridge man, Stephen Dudley Field, actually invented the electric trolley in 1874 – almost a decade earlier than Sprague.
POEM: Dreams of a Leader
Well, sure. TR had to go. And no great loss.
Presidents look stupid wearing glasses.
CONNECTIONS: Beautification, conservation, environmental protection
“The nation behaves well if it treats its national resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation.”
— President Theodore Roosevelt
CONNECTIONS: Berkshires meet 21st century – profits vs. preservation, Part II
If you want maximum control over what happens on a piece of land, buy it. No joke. Not everyone can afford that option, but there is more than one way to do it.
CONNECTIONS: Lies, damned lies, and the facts
Today, dangerously, we argue fact as if it were one of multiple opinions. It saps our national strength and hampers our ability to problem-solve.
CONNECTIONS: Stonover Farm and the Sugar Trust scandal
Berkshire cottager John E. Parsons was 80 years old when he was indicted, with a 60-year career in the law. The year before, in 1908, the New York Times reported “Parsons is believed to have the finest law practice in the country.”
CONNECTIONS: Character assassination, an American political tradition
Principles, reason, and policies don’t stand a chance against snappy character assassination, juicy alliteration, and fear mongering. What will the American public do?
CONNECTIONS: Life, love and death in 1906 America
Were we the same country in 1906 or were we as different as chalk and cheese?
The ‘News,’ then as now
It took 200 years for American media and public relations to discover the power of hypocrisy: simultaneously lying and denying it.