Whats the craziest idea that has ever been proposed to benefit the town?
When the state of Vermont proposed to create three hundred new high paying jobs in Brattleboro if residents would allow the state to construct a new maximum security prison located in the woods adjacent to the Austine School for the hearing impaired. Yikes. How do you come by your interest in writing? After finishing the play Romeo and Juliet, I informed my tenth grade English teacher that the ending of the play was dreadful because Shakespeare did not know how to tell a story. That was a huge mistake on my part because my teacher adored Shakespeare. I remember her yelling at me, “If you are so smart, then you rewrite the ending and I expect you to read it aloud to the class tomorrow.” It was the first time in my entire life that an English assignment truly excited me. Although it has been forty years, I vividly remember my rewritten ending that I wrote in fractured Elizabethan English. Romeo and Juliet did not really kill themselves. They faked their own suicides because neither of th
