Follow-up on un-naming a bridge
Jul. 23rd, 2008 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyWell, the Augusta city council has voted in favor of removing that priest's name from the bridge. Has to go to the state legislature, though, because it's a state bridge.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=167462&zoneid=164
I remain . . . uneasy . . . about trial-by-media forty years after the offense and more than thirty years after the alleged perp died.
EDIT: Just to make my queasy-feelings clear, I was in high school in 1961. I can't even remember the name of our pastor (Presbyterian) at that time.
And memory plays tricks, especially traumatic memories -- I have been told that I was present when a neighbor's dog knocked my grandmother down, breaking her hip, an injury that started her decline and eventual death. I remember her visit. I remember the dog. I do not remember the fall and injury and ambulances and the rest of the riot.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=167462&zoneid=164
I remain . . . uneasy . . . about trial-by-media forty years after the offense and more than thirty years after the alleged perp died.
EDIT: Just to make my queasy-feelings clear, I was in high school in 1961. I can't even remember the name of our pastor (Presbyterian) at that time.
And memory plays tricks, especially traumatic memories -- I have been told that I was present when a neighbor's dog knocked my grandmother down, breaking her hip, an injury that started her decline and eventual death. I remember her visit. I remember the dog. I do not remember the fall and injury and ambulances and the rest of the riot.
