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: Swiftsure race this weekend – should be lots of action in the inner harbor in Victoria. A lot happened on 

Dear Friends, Tangents: Memorial Day:  Also known as Decoration Day, observed in most states of the USA as a holiday to honour