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Community Perspective: Christmas
A contributed perspectives piece by Joe Laughland
In 1952, we got a TV. A fancy polished wood cabinet with double doors that opened to a gray oval screen with a dial for selecting channels and a knob to turn it on.
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Community Perspective: Hanging out with Stephen Sondheim
A community perspectives piece by Tom Arthur: The last time I was in New York, a former student asked if I wanted to meet Stephen Sondheim, with whom he was friends.
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Community Perspective: The Winter Coat
A contributed perspectives piece by Anna Rose Geary.
It was the winter of 1927 and twenty-two- year- old Nenzi, my mother, wanted a dressy coat to wear to church and to special occasions.
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Community Perspective: A Temple of Trees
Community Perspective submission by Bill Cale:
I love trees. In fact, I consider them my friends. When I moved to Harrisonburg, Susan and I considered only houses adjacent to forests. Yet, trees are under assault.
Community Perspective: Harrisonburg Jeepers
A contributed perspectives piece by Tom Arthur President Eisenhower called the jeep one of the four tools of victory that won World War II. (The other three were the C-47 transport aircraft, the portable bazooka, and the atomic bomb.) The jeep was used by all the allied armed forces to replace the WW1 cavalry as command …
Community Perspectives: Reflections on Vietnam in 1968
By Harold W. Smith Harold W. Smith is a participant in the Virginia War Memorial’s Mighty Pen Project and served in the Vietnam War with the U.S. Army. This Memorial Day, Smith has shared three of his writings with the project, saying they are some of his experiences “while in Vietnam in 1968 during the Tet Offensive, the …
Community Perspective: The Butler and His Wife: John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor in Harrisonburg, Virginia
A contributed perspectives piece by Tom Arthur Editor’s Note: The Citizen first published this perspectives piece in July 2020 and is republishing it in the wake of John Warner’s death this week at the age of 94. Warner and his then-wife Elizabeth Taylor visited Harrisonburg in 1976, and it was here where Warner first announced …
Community Perspective: On the Road to a Living Wage
A contributed perspectives piece by Chris Hoover Seidel, Harrisonburg-Rockingham Living Wage Campaign Steering Committee Member Six years ago when On the Road Collaborative Executive Director Brent Holsinger was building an organization of “five volunteers and zero dollars” from scratch, he was searching for a wage level that would honor the work of closing opportunity gaps for …
