Insight: 2020 was a good year – for reading Maine history
The anniversary of Maine statehood gave a retired editor a vantage point to tell the story of the last 200 years, one day at a time.
By Joseph OwenSpecial to the Telegram
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A common theme running through recent political cartoons and Facebook posts has been how happy many of us will be to see the year 2020 draw to a close.
The sentiment is understandable, but of course it’s naïve to assume that the mere flip of a calendar page grants us a global do-over, a chance to get things right after so many wrongs crammed into a single year. The rampant spread of the coronavirus, the accompanying sudden onset of an economic recession, the epic corrosiveness of our national politics and racial inequality that has provoked a fresh surge of outrage are only the most obvious crises we’ve had to face.