Since the full-time interpreters were laid off in August, I’ve been minding the store at Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site. For 10 years now, I’ve been a volunteer interpreter in the log schoolhouse during the summer. It’s a nice fit with my day job as a teacher. Since the layoffs, though, I’ve been greeting […]
Peter Ellertsen
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The prophet Jeremiah
Untitled Document We won’t know who wins this year’s presidential election till November, of course, but I can declare one winner already: Mike Huckabee’s defense of Democratic candidate Barack Obama’s pastor on television last week was a class act. Of course Huckabee could politically afford to do it, because he’s withdrawn from the race for […]
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Tales of Sir Galahad
Untitled Document Once upon a time, in a distant land called Iowa, the media anointed U.S. Sen. Barack Obama crown prince of all the realm — well, at least, of all the Democrats. But half-a-week later, when the New Hampshire primary proved them wrong, they found another story to tell, something more along the lines […]
