Received recently from a friend of this blog and the
Concord Discussion List, Concord born and bred from an venerable local family:
Last night I was reading Leslie Wilson's book [In History's Embrace] where she quotes Emerson (page 38):
"...In this open democracy, every opinion had utterance; every objection, every fact, every acre of land, every bushel of rye, its entire weight... Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records, of any inhabitant being hindered from speaking, or suffering from any violence or usurpation of any class."
And then from the April 9th Concord Journal:
"Concord - Selectmen are looking at Monday, May 4, as a potential date for their first meeting devoted to hearing comments from the public."
How did Concord go from honoring public comment to (sigh.....) "allowing" it?
I'm suffering from whiplash from observing how much things have changed when I wasn't looking.
We are in the same pain, too... how far the noble have fallen.
