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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater

I was talking with a friend and he mentioned that although these are bad times politically we baby boomers have lived through worse. He reminded me of the 1960s: A president assassinated, his brother and presidential candidate assassinated; a civil rights movement that ignited race riots in most of the major cities in the U.S. and the best known civil rights leader in the nation killed.

100 years ago – October 24, 1918

A quick Google search about “voting” will turn up such tags as “Russian interference,” “voter suppression,” “cyber attacks,” and “Taylor Swift.” Tags not listed included “democracy,” “freedom” or “duty.”

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The following snippets of history are compiled by volunteers of the Windsor Museum & Historical Society. The museum is open, free to the public, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment. The museum is located in the historic Hembree House at 9225 Foxwood Drive. Learn more about Windsor history at windsorhistory.org.

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Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”