Friday, June 10, 2005

The Union Leader: Vive la Ste. Marie! Too bad we can't write of such things

I missed this when it came out on May 20, 2005 - but it's delightful enough to run a bit late, I think. It's an editorial in the New Hampshire Union Leader called "Vive la Ste. Marie! Too bad we can't write of such things" which begins:

NEWSPAPERS WRITE only about what is wrong with the world, so we won't say a word here about this being the 125th anniversary year of Ste. Marie parish in the Catholic Diocese of Manchester.

Not so much as a sentence will be printed here about the devout and devoted working class parishioners, many of them mill workers and most of them of French Canadian stock, who helped build a strong and enduring parish community on the city's West Side...

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