by Matthew Friedman | Mar 8, 2023 | Essays
A crowd of 4,000 gathered in the chilly, late-spring rain to dedicate a memorial to America’s war dead in Newark’s Military Park. It was 1926, only seven-and-a-half years since the guns fell silent at the end of the Great War. Veterans stood on the dais...
by Matthew Friedman | Apr 5, 2020 | Essays
Every day is Sunday. The parking lot at the busiest commuter station in Mass Bay Transit Authority’s light rail system is vacant except for one Honda and one Subaru Impreza. The streets are deserted under the glorious sun of a New England spring day. There will be a...
