Month: May 2020

This Sunday Is Mother’s Day

During this time of unprecedented upheaval because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the rituals that most of us traditionally follow either have been eliminated or drastically changed because of the need to practice physical distancing. So too, the manner in which…

This Is No Time for Hooverism

Herbert Hoover had been President for about seven months when the stock market crashed in October, 1929. Although there have been many causes attributed to the onset of the Great Depression, the crash generally is viewed as the trigger point…

Letters

We Were Dismayed Dear Editor We were dismayed to hear that the Forest Hills Cemetery had shut its gates to visitors who wished to seek refuge from their “sheltering in” and to spend time, often with their children, in a…