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An abandoned mill, built on a railroad spur and relying on steam power, has found new life as affordable housing. Now touted as Woodbury Mills, it has 42 “apartment homes.” It’s one of several repurposed and renovated mills in the city.
A pioneering educator, Moses Cartland taught in this combination school and Quaker meetinghouse at his family’s farm in Lee, New Hampshire, after previously establishing the Clinton Grove Friends school in Weare. A staunch abolitionist, he was also a founder of the Republican Party in New Hampshire and a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Moses and his cousin John Greenleaf Whittier were closest friends and lifelong bachelors, at least until Moses married one of his students – who was also a cousin. Although considerably younger than Moses, she predeceased him.
The Quaker Cartland family built a prosperous farm in Lee, New Hampshire. Their house was a stop on the Underground Railroad, carting escaped slaves to freedom.
I’m still worried about the decision to buy Dover’s police department a $240,000 armored truck.
What’s next, drones?
Well, maybe we’ve hit on the real reason the city police department needs that $240,000 armored truck.
It’s to defend the local SigSauer production site.
Seriously?
I’m still wondering why my little city’s police department needs a $240,000 armored truck.
Is it to defend the gundalow that will be docked along the river?
Protect the historic boat from pirates?
And then, what about a getaway on the water – with a heavy truck in hot pursuit? Stuck in the mud or sinking.
I’m still trying to figure out why my little city’s police department needs a $240,000 armored truck, courtesy of Homeland Security.
A better use? Sell it to buy hay for the mounted patrol’s horses.
I can personally attest the horses blocked a speeding car that was about to hit me as I stepped out in a crosswalk. Let’s see that armored truck do that!
Some folks in Washington are all too happy to approve $240,000 grants to buy armored trucks for little ‘burgs like Dover – while trying to derail health care for all Americans as too expensive.
Huh? These things add up … quickly.
Why does Dover need a BearCat when the Seacoast Emergency Response Team already has one parked just down the road?
And when was the last time it was really needed?
I’m beginning to think the vote was a result of this long, weird winter we’ve had. Not that the truck would do any good with a plow attachment.
Homeland Security’s grant of $240,000 to my placid city of 30,000 to purchase an armored truck for the police department illustrates one thing:
Those folks in Congress who keep harping on government spending aren’t reticent when it comes for doling out the big bucks for items that do little or nothing for the common American.
Since Dover is an unlikely spot for terrorists to attack, could we use some of that money to pay off student loans? For starters?
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