Tuesday, March 02, 2010

It's Town Meeting Day in Vermont!









Mount Mansfield from Jericho, Vermont.

I am working at the polls today before heading over to work at the salt mine.

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11 comments:

  1. Howard is first.

    I've been reading up on guitars and some on lutes. Guitars seem simpler; so, my character is going to have a small guitar.

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  2. Catchin' up!
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    Cat--this from Wikipedia:

    "Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz...

    Published in installments in three Polish dailies in 1895, it came out in book form in 1896 and has since been translated into more than 50 languages. This novel contributed to Sienkiewicz's Nobel Prize for literature in 1905."
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    Thanks for the Ally update...
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    Cat--

    The word "tar" in "guitar," "sitar," "cithara [kithara]," "dutar," etc. is the Persian word for "string."

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  3. For the first time, I today testified before a grand jury. Then I looked up the "grand jury" entry in Wikipedia. Quite interesting, really. They started out in 12th century England (using the inquest system of William the Conqueror) as part of a system to supplant the feudal courts with the king's justice; played a much more important role (and a different one too) in the United States up until the end of the 19th century than they do today; and are now pretty much extinct outside the U.S. Did you know that until the late 19th century most prosecutors in the U.S. were private parties rather than elected officials?

    I expected the grand jury room to be far more impressive than it was; it turned out to be a pretty basic and rather crowded meeting room. I had visions of a room with two tiers of seats in concentric semicircles set above the well, wherein the witness box and the prosecutor's table would be located. No such luck.

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  4. Another couple of things about grand juries:

    1) The proceedings are secret.

    2) Neither the defendant nor his/her counsel is present.

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  5. Well, it *is* snowing, and has been for about an hour. Since it's over freezing, I doubt there's going to be much accumulation, and so far the weather service has stayed out of this one, lol!! Spring snow. . . .

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  6. Bill Thomasson3/02/2010 02:27:00 PM

    puddle ~

    Three of the 10 heaviest snowstroms the Chicago area has ever seen have ben in March. I'm pretty sure that at least one was heavier than anything we've ever seen in February.

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  7. donna in evanston3/02/2010 03:27:00 PM

    Remember the one in April of '67?

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  8. Bill, it may be, lol! But I don't this storm is all that an a bag of chips. It's stopped now, and has left us about a half inch ~~ just enough to freshen things up.

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  9. Bill Thomasson3/02/2010 09:16:00 PM

    Nope! I was in Southern California at the time. But I've certainly heard of it.

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  10. But I don't *think* this storm. . .

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  11. Today's was the nicest weather I recall us ever having for Town Meeting. I worked at the polls, came home for a 20 minute nap, then worked at the Library. I'm pretty tired. Going to go turn in early.

    Alan...thanks for the grand jury info! It's quite interesting! It sounds like the idea of a grand jury is more intimidating than the room. I think I'd have pictured a more grand room too.

    Cat...what time period is your story set in? If it's not modern day, I'd be rooting for the lute. ;-) I looooooove lute music!!!!

    puddle...Bill... We got home from Maine to find just a dusting of new snow on the ground. How's that fair? Ha!

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