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Tag: Theodore Roosevelt

Viewpoints

CONNECTIONS: Is America becoming an oligarchy?

Today, 1 percent controls 90 percent of the wealth. Will there be an unstoppable shift away from democracy?

by Carole Owens
Posted on April 23, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

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.

by Carole Owens
Posted on October 16, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

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.

by Carole Owens
Posted on October 9, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

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.

by Carole Owens
Posted on March 20, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

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.

by Carole Owens
Posted on March 13, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

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.

by Carole Owens
Posted on August 22, 2017
Arts & Entertainment

POEM: Dreams of a Leader

Well, sure. TR had to go. And no great loss.

Presidents look stupid wearing glasses.

by Jon Swan
Posted on August 3, 2017
Life In the Berkshires

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

by Carole Owens
Posted on April 18, 2017
Life In the Berkshires

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.

by Carole Owens
Posted on January 17, 2017
Life In the Berkshires

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.

by Carole Owens
Posted on January 3, 2017
Life In the Berkshires

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.”

by Carole Owens
Posted on October 18, 2016
Viewpoints

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?

by Carole Owens
Posted on July 26, 2016
News

CONNECTIONS: Life, love and death in 1906 America

Were we the same country in 1906 or were we as different as chalk and cheese?

by Carole Owens
Posted on May 24, 2016
Viewpoints

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.

by Carole Owens
Posted on August 5, 2014
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