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Just to live in New England in winter is a full-time job; you don’t have to ‘do’ anything. The idle pursuit of making-a-living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.” E.B. White,
A Report in January, 1958
Sadly, the weather that Mr. White described in his essay hasn’t materialized around these parts this winter. We had a couple batches of snow early in the season, but since then there hasn’t been much at all, certainly nothing you could describe as “wild.”
A North Carolina woman recognized last year as America s oldest living Marine has died.
Dorothy Schmidt Cole died last week after suffering a heart attack at her daughter’s home in Kannapolis. She was 107.
Cole set out from her home in Warren, Pennsylvania, to join the Navy following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, according to the Charlotte Observer. Her height of 4 feet, 11 inches prevented her from enlisting at the time. This photo provided by Beth Kluttz shows Dorothy Schmidt Cole. Dorothy Schmidt Cole, recognized last year as the oldest living U.S. Marine, has died at age 107. The Marine Times says Dorothy Schmidt Cole died of a heart attack at her daughter s home in Kannapolis on Jan. 7, 2021. (Courtesy of Beth Kluttz via AP)
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