Unlike some reportage from that occasionally fine newspaper, here Clancy effortlessly draws together milieu, storyline, meeting participants, backstory, the conflicting sociologies and economics of this event, in which a California based company held a public meeting on its proposal to place a methadone clinic in the tiny Midcoast Maine town of Warren
The simple lines that won my heart was when she wrote: Still another person shouted, "Let him talk! Let the man finish."
It was like a written version of Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, something I recently had the pleasure of lingering over in its original form.
Great work, Lynda. Something that the town ought to keep in its archive.
(But then I'm an amateur historian, and loathe the general run of low-information and frequently critically deficient coverage of locally important events that all too many other journalists are, alas, prone to produce.)
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