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On Alice’s rules and handles

I didn’t come from a wealthy family but happened to live across the street — oops, road, we were never permitted to call it a “street” — from one very wealthy lady, a memorable woman who had the economic resources to build what she insisted was a white “Connecticut Farm House” breezily overlooking the fact […]

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Trump takes America into trade war

The U.S. is like a nation at war. The federal government is on the attack, deploying the power of the American economy and military to force other nations, states, the media and even citizens to follow the orders of President Trump and his agents. This brutal campaign would reshape the economy and transform the world […]

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The devastating Brunswick Tontine Hotel fire of 1904

On Tuesday morning, Jan. 5, 1904, just after 3 a.m., Brunswick Police Officer J.E. Alexander fired shots into the air over downtown. It was “eight degrees below zero” and Brunswick’s grandest hotel was on fire. Just before 3 a.m., Hotel Night Clerk Alonzo Colby started a fire in “the kitchen range” to help thaw frozen […]