Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: Michael Bloomberg’s Commencement address at Harvard University, May 29th: Repressing free expression is a natural human weakness, and it is

Dear Friends, Tangents: June – the sixth month, probably named from the Roman gens or clan name Junius, related to juvenis, “young.”  Some sources take

Dear Friends, Tangents: And on this day: On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after

Dear Friends, Tangents: May 29, 1453: Constantinople falls to the Turks. May 29, 1953: On this day in 1953, Edmund Hillary of New

Dear Friends, Tangents: Want to be happier?  Go to the trees.  New research ties proximity to parks and other green spaces to

Dear Friends, Tangents: May 22nd,1992 – Johnny Carson hosted NBC’s “Tonight Show” for the last time after nearly 30 years in the