Dan and I attended a really fun virtual event today. A good friend Clint Buxton organized a mock town meeting with speakers from the historical society they were reading from Richmond town meetings over the last 200 or so years.… Clint was is the perfect host because he currently runs Richmond County… Like his father before him. As a matter of fact this years marks the first time in 200 years that the town has not gotten together face-to-face on the first Tuesday in March to debate the towns business.… That regard he was the perfect house for this event. He brought the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance just like the real meetings… And then started reading the organizational principles I have some time in the 19th century. This included that women were only allowed to vote in the school election… That was very strange to hear.… But over the 45 minutes people read Old accounts of the same kind of current business that we transact.… There were reports from the library trustees, the constables, the police department, the cemetery committee, and of course the school board.… In the school board report we were gratified to hear that town school number four (our home for the last 40 years) was recently painted and re-slated in the early part of the 1900s… So it was noted that the school lacked sufficient scientific equipment for education… I was glad to report that we’ve done a lot To address that in the last Nearly 40 years :-)

It was a lot of fun… But I have to admit that I’m pretty sad that we won’t actually have a physical town meeting. I attend every year that I’m in town.… And that’s been quite a few in the last four decades.

I am very proud to live in a place where democracy is such a hands-on exercise… It strikes me this would be good for the rest of the world to do as well

Nite all, nite sam

-me