Mary McCallum
CommentatorMary McCallum is a freelance writer and former prison librarian who now works with Vermont elders.
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President Calvin Coolidge, a Plymouth, Vermont native who adored his white collie Rob Roy, once stated in his plain spoken way that 鈥淎ny man who does not鈥� -
It鈥檚 happened again. This week massive ice jams and flooding set in motion by warm weather, rain and rising waters put people and property in danger. For鈥�
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Sadly, last week鈥檚 shooting at a rural Kentucky high school that left two dead and eighteen injured didn鈥檛 seem to hold our attention for very long. We鈥檝e鈥�
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In the 鈥�80s, after footloose travel and a stint living in Greece, I decided to get a career and enrolled in a masters program in library science. In my鈥�
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I鈥檝e joined the growing ranks of Americans who鈥檝e undergone a total knee replacement. If we live long enough, the human body eventually needs updating鈥�
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Never mind that the snows had melted and the first green spears of new growth had pushed up to announce spring鈥檚 arrival. For weeks the entire state of鈥�
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In the darkened theater we followed an Afghan woman as she escaped her burning village with nine children, carrying a fifty-pound sack of flour on her鈥�
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The use of online communication to advance social causes has created some clever new words, like clicktivsm 鈥� the signing of online petitions to feel part鈥�
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I鈥檝e done my share of protesting in life. In 1969, I joined a half million protesters in Washington, D.C. in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam -鈥�
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I recently sat on the edge of my seat in a packed house listening to two icons of resistance speak about the state of politics, environment and the media.鈥�
