"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
". . .but when the empire of America shall fall, the subject for contemplative sorrow will be infinitely greater than crumbling brass and marble can inspire. It will not then be said, 'Here stood a temple of vast antiquity; here rose a babel of invisible height; or there a palace of sumptuous extravagance; but here, ah, painful thought! the noblest of work of human wisdom, the grandest scene of human glory, the fair cause of Freedom rose and fell." Thomas Paine
“ The small landholders are the most precious part of a state ” Thomas Jefferson
Indian Summer is a glorious time in this corner of New England. The quotes above are pulled from Apple Journal, a delight for the agrarian-spirited, and apple-lovers in general * A campaign is underway to preserve the orchards in Bolton, Mass. * Neighboring Stow has five orchards in close proximity * A list of Massachusetts orchards is provided at a Harvard, Mass., apple-pie baking site * And here is a history of cider.
![[SMMMHDH]](http://www.mgilleland.com/music/smmmhdh.png){kind=small}
