Travels with Stargazer

On Sunday Stargazer rolled out of Westport, Massachusetts with a smile and a RV full of great memories. Between Saturday and Sunday, the Westport Monthly Meeting 59th Annual Book Fair generated just under $40,000 in sales and the Book Sale is open until next Sunday. The record is slightly over $50,000. Monies are used to support the Meeting’s operations, as well as local nonprofit organizations. Congratulations to Gretchen Baker-Smith, the Book Fair Clerk, and all the Meeting members, attenders and…

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I wrote the following Letter to the Editor to the Conway Sun. Dear Mitch McConnell I have no expectation that you and I will ever see eye to eye on most issues. Abortion. Gun control. Immigration. You get it; the list goes on and on. But the issue where I don’t understand your unwillingness to act is climate change. Believing that climate change is not real is the true “Big Lie”. Forget about stealing an election, you are stealing the…

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For many years Melinda and I worked with all our Westport Monthly Meeting Quaker friends on an Annual Book Fair. During our last year, 2019, we raised over $50,000 selling 35,000+ books, CDs, DVDs, albums and puzzles. A significant percentage of the money raised is used to support local non-profit organizations providing critical services to the greater-Westport area. We moved full-time to Jackson in November 2019 and the plan was to finish Book Sale Transition Training in 2020 and then…

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