Tropical vacations get quite popular this time of year in New England.
But Willem Lange thinks there are so many
delightful little things to keep us occupied that just being here is a
vacation.
As Congressman Peter Welch tries to change the political atmosphere in
Washington, Willem Lange wishes him luck –
and observes that in the long run, resistance to change is said to be
futile.
Vermont wasn’t a state yet at the time of the Declaration of
Independence, so there weren’t many fireworks here. But Willem Lange says we sure made up for it
four score and seven years later, at the Battle of Gettysburg.
"What is so rare as a day in June?" the poet writes. Willem Lange
seconds the question, and notes that June is a time of promise and
promises long remembered.