Pat and Richard Rhames have been farming 12-acres of land at Shady Brook Farm in Biddeford for more than forty years, but things don't look like they should.
Letter to the editor: Shift focus of coverage to address social inequities
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The Maine Sunday Telegram’s Dec. 6 edition promised “Light shines on mysterious past.” The front-page story detailed genealogical sleuthing into the parentage of a Depression-era infant dubbed “Billy Sunshine” back in 1937. It’s the kind of a “finding your roots” story that’s become a cottage industry these days as people are encouraged to dote on genetic material they share with people they never knew, and discover … meaning?
The hyperpersonal focus occurs as a pandemic rages amid a climate catastrophe, in a country where the working-class majority daily slips yet further into “precarity” while the upper fraction of the 1 percent ferociously enriches itself.