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Venerable buildings still dominate Gardner s skyline today Mike Richard Special for The Gardner News If there was ever a shot that perfectly depicted West Gardner Square on a lazy summer day in the 1960s, the accompanying photograph taken by Charles Clark could be it. Shoppers are seen milling in and out of the many stores, while downtown regulars lean on a streetlamp or congregate in the doorway of a barber shop to share in the daily news. A Gardner police officer, safely stowed in his traffic box, directs the cars motoring along through the square. This was downtown Gardner in the mid-1960s when Edward’s Rexall Drugs, City Barber Shop, Gardner Office Supply, Priscilla Candy Shop, Sandrof’s Men’s Furnishings, Davis Hardware, First National Bank, J.C. Penney and Gardner Cooperative Bank filled the Pleasant Street store fronts. ....
Hangeul s Mongolian predecessor By Richard Pennington Every Korean ― schoolboy or schoolgirl, taxi driver, computer programmer ― from the highest to the lowest levels of this society may know the glorious tale of how King Sejong took it upon himself in 1443 to construct an entirely new alphabet to fit the Korean language, freeing the people ― the literate ones, at least ― from their long dependence on classical Chinese. Hangeul is a fundamental part of Korean culture and a source of enduring pride. For good reason, we celebrate its creation and proclamation here every Oct. 9. Linguistic specialists like Werner Sasse of Germany, Gari Ledyard of the United States, Hiroyuki Umeda of Japan and Geoffrey Sampson of the U.K. consider Hangeul as the world s best phonemic writing system. According to the latter, it s one of the great intellectual achievements of mankind. ....