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Published July 04. 2021 12:01AM By
Lisa McGinley
An even busier than average mom once told me she divided her parental responsibilities into three categories: must do, should do and want to do. The musts obviously took priority. Rarely did she get to the shoulds, however, because her secret as a successful parent was to skip straight to the want-to-dos. Her kids had a lot of good times.
Connecticut, courtesy of $15 million in COVID-19 recovery funding from the American Rescue Plan, is making it easier to ditch the shoulds and go for the fun stuff this summer. The state is underwriting free admission for children under 18 and an accompanying adult at 90 museums, historic sites, zoos, aquariums and science and nature centers.
Published May 16. 2021 12:01AM By
Lisa McGinley
Everyone old enough to watch television on Sept. 11, 2001 knows where they were when the planes hit the north and south towers and the Pentagon. The terrorist attacks using four commercial aircraft as weapons changed history in a way that seems unforgettable to those who lived through it. For some it has already faded; that is proving to be a danger.
The people bringing this lapse of memory to attention are members of the group Friends of Flight 93, who support the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stoystown, Penn. When they volunteer on the site where United Flight 93 crashed into a field, they find visitors are often surprised to hear about what happened there. The guides tell them the story of passengers and crew who knew, from mobile phone calls with friends and family on the ground, that three other planes had hit major targets. Rather than let their flight slam into the U.S. Capitol or the White House, they fought