Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 4/8/2021 10:50:19 AM
The Dublin Conservation Commission is hosting a Park Spring Celebration at the Dublin Rotary Park this weekend, where visitors can familiarize themselves with the 40 acres of town-owned recreation land beside Howe Reservoir off Route 101.
The event is coming in advance of Dublin’s Town Meeting, which features an article that seeks to appropriate funds for the park’s maintenance and formalize the Conservation Commission’s stewardship of the site.
The park features hiking trails, picnicking spots, and area for launching kayaks and canoes onto the adjacent Howe Reservoir, Conservation Commission member and longtime park steward Jerry Branch said. Despite its substantial size, trails, and impressive views, the park’s been “kind of overlooked,” Branch said, and Saturday’s event is an opportunity for locals to familiarize themselves with the public asset.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 2/17/2021 5:05:45 PM
The one message that stuck with Jim Guy ever since he was a young boy growing up in Cleveland, Ohio was the importance of getting an education.
His parents grew up in the 1920s, and life as Black people coming of age was anything but easy.
“They were subject to severe racial discrimination,” Guy said of his parents James and Josephine.
Yet they persevered, with James eventually beating the odds and becoming a doctor, and he wanted his only son to know that it would take hard work – “twice as much as a white man,” Guy remembers his father telling him all the way back to when he was in second grade. That was the path he needed to follow to a bright future.