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<\/p>\nDan 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\ufffc 200 or so years.\u2026 Clint was is the perfect host because he currently runs Richmond County\u2026 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.\u2026 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\u2026 And then started reading the organizational principles\ufffc I have some time in the 19th century. This included that women were only allowed to vote in the school election\u2026 That was very strange to hear.\u2026 But over the 45 minutes people read Old accounts of the same kind of current business that we transact.\u2026 There were reports from the library trustees, the constables, the police department, the cemetery committee, and of course the school board.\u2026 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\u2026 So it was noted that the school lacked sufficient scientific equipment for education\u2026 I was glad to report that we’ve done a lot\ufffc To address that in the last Nearly 40 years :-)\ufffc<\/p>\n
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It was a lot of fun\u2026 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.\u2026 And that’s been quite a few in the last four decades.<\/p>\n
I am very proud to live in a place where democracy is such a hands-on exercise\u2026 It strikes me this would be good for the rest of the world to do\ufffc as well<\/p>\n
Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n
-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\ufffc 200 or so years.\u2026 Clint was is the perfect host because he currently runs Richmond County\u2026 Like his father … Continue reading Sunday night – Town meetings of yore<\/span>