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With Howard Fielding | Celebrating Our Common Life, Liberty, and Happiness

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Howard Fielding's "Living Here" column ran for 25 years in The Sunday Republican of Waterbury, Connecticut. Now retired, he's still living here, online. Join him to enjoy sunsets, short uplifting essays, works in progress, special surprises, and the occasional trip down Memory Lane.

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Category: LIBERTY

A look at the history and documents that laid the groundwork for the freedoms we have today.

Ще не вмерла України

Reading Time: < 1 minute The State Anthem of Ukraine is a prayer and a promise from a people who have persevered over the centuries.

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‘Marchons, marchons!’

Reading Time: < 1 minute The French have been singing this anthem since 1792. Free people will fight back in every way they can when despots seek to become their masters.

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Presidents Day

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s officially Washington’s Birthday, squeezing Lincoln off the federal calendar. But it reminds us that presidents are, truly, just people.

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‘Inflation’ — The movie

Reading Time: 2 minutes MGM made FDR’s 1942 Fireside Chat on inflation into a propaganda short. The devil is still in the details.

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The two faces of Honest Abe

Reading Time: < 1 minute Abraham Lincoln had two faces: A gentle, humorous right side and a “primitive” left side. Doctors explain why.

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The wrong side of history

Reading Time: < 1 minute Writers often have to decide which is more important: literal accuracy or historical truth. Screenwriter Tony Kushner said he had his reasons.

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“Vive la démocratie!”

Reading Time: < 1 minute There are chilling similarities between 1942 and 2022, both in Europe and in the Pacific. Here, too. “I bet they’re asleep in New York. I bet they’re asleep all over America.”

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Martin Luther King’s Birthday

Reading Time: 2 minutes The slain civil rights leader’s legacy remains controversial, even today. But I admire his vision. We should concentrate on things that bring us together.

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A victory for religious liberty

Reading Time: 2 minutes This Sunday is Religious Freedom Day. This is the story of one family’s two-year battle to worship as they pleased in colonial New Netherlands.

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Blogroll

  • Civil Eyes 321 — J.M. Gifford's blog about civil public discourse.
  • Erin Covey Creative — wedding portfolios by my favorite portrait photogapher.
  • The Bee's Pajamas — Beverly Foster Seinberg’s "random stuff from an aging Aspie brain.”
  • The Thinkers' Club – Shekhar Dasgupta's delightful and insightful essays.
  • Wild About Harry — Joe Cox’s longstanding home to everything Houdini.

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