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The next morning there were 18 inches of snow on the ground.\u00a0 A good old fashioned Nor’easter\u00a0 came through.\u00a0 It was something.<\/p>\n
In 2014, Carrie and I went to The Berkshires in western Mass.\u00a0 We loved the place.\u00a0 We have been back every year since and plan to return for a fifth year in a row in late June.\u00a0 Not far from Hancock, Mass, where we stay, is Pittsfield where Herman Melville wrote Moby DIck and lived for a number of years.<\/p>\n
Here I am doing my best George Plimpton imitation outside the Pittsfield Athenaeum…a fancy name for a library.<\/p>\n Melville’s house.<\/p>\n The barn where Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne chewed the fat.\u00a0 I was in awe.<\/p>\n Not to short Thoreau, of course, this is Walden pond which is also on the header of speaktherights.com right now.<\/p>\n When Carrie and I came home in 2014 from our Northeast visit, I had writing ants in my pants.\u00a0 In July of that year I began speaktherights.com.\u00a0 This is the 400th entry on this site. It is hard for me to believe.\u00a0 In the fall of 2014 I wrote extensively about my Granny’s illness and eventual passing.\u00a0 It was cathartic for me.\u00a0 It is nice to have to look back on, as well as so many other days and times and hopes, wishes and dreams.<\/p>\n So here is the first post…<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nWhy Speak The Rights?<\/a><\/h1>\n