Donna Dufresne I love the Quiet Corner of Connecticut – the soft, rolling hills dotted with farms, the little villages accented by white steeples and general stores, the pockets of a rural past. In fact, when I first came to this part of the state, I immediately felt at home. I befriended a series …
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HATE IS NOT PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION
Donna Dufresne Hate is not protected by the Constitution, any more than the right to kill people with semi-automatic weapons. The confederate flag and confederate statues, although historical relics, are more a reminder of hatred, racism and treason than a reverence for the past. Their presence in public spaces is offensive to anyone who holds …
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SILENCE IS COMPLICITY
Donna Dufresne Silence is complicity when it comes to hateful rhetoric. Donald Trump IS responsible for the crazy fools who act out his hateful, white supremacist, and racist speeches. And it is downright DEPLORABLE that his so-called base can’t take a break from their hatefulness, to mourn the deaths of people of faith who were …
HOW TO DESTROY A DEMOCRACY
Donna Dufresne First: Go after the schools by undermining public education. You create a punitive, high-stakes testing system which further divides communities by race and economic diversity, pushing us back into segregation and widening achievement gaps. You publish district test scores in the newspaper, which leads to an insidious type of red-lining, a secret code …
Wormwood Hill on a Fine Spring Day
My first encounter with Wormwood Hill was on a brilliant spring day in 1981. I immediately fell in love with the rolling green hills of that rocky farm which was laced with stonewalls. The barn listed a little too heavily toward the road and the hay spilled out like water through the cracks of a …