[LincolnTalk] Fwd: Mother To Son

[Sara Mattes]

Title: Mother To Son
On this day….Sent from my iPadBegin forwarded message:From: Dan Rather Date: June 17, 2023 at 5:04:28 PM EDTTo: samat...@gmail.comSubject: Mother To SonReply-To: Dan Rather Perseverance. A striving to reach new heights. A struggle to overcome hardship and injustice. The determination to keep moving forward. The indomitability of the human spirit is a marvel to witness. Our ability to grow as a society, to wrestle with long-standing wrongs and fashion new hope, is one of the great strengths of the United States.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌Open in app or onlinePlease consider supporting the Steady community with a paid subscription if you are able. Upgrade to paidMother To SonDan Rather and Elliot KirschnerJun 17 Share Perseverance. A striving to reach new heights. A struggle to overcome hardship and injustice. The determination to keep moving forward. The indomitability of the human spirit is a marvel to witness. Our ability to grow as a society, to wrestle with long-standing wrongs and fashion new hope, is one of the great strengths of the United States. But the burdens of our progress have fallen far too heavily on the most marginalized. This is especially true for Black Americans, who were brought to these shores as property, robbed of humanity, tortured in body and mind, and denied the fruits of labor. As we can sadly see in our current times, there are still powerful forces in this country who want to deny these historical truths, as uncomfortable as those truths may be. And still we have so far to go. Yet once again, we cannot forsake hope, because our history also shows that we can make great strides. It is a journey that has taken generations and has come at great cost for those who must do the hard work of pulling our nation upwards. This is a story centuries in the making, and it must be remembered. It is a helpful development that Juneteenth became a national holiday (a milestone we celebrated in this Steady post). Hopefully its annual occurrence will become a cause for continued reflection. One of the most effective chroniclers of America’s complicated realities was the poet Langston Hughes. His work is infused with both the tragedy and the promise of what this country was and is. For even though he wrote for a different era, his words speak to us across the decades. Today we are pleased to feature “Mother to Son,” which was written in 1922. Few bonds are stronger than those between mother and child, and one of the great sins of slavery was that families were torn apart. In this poem, we hear a mother share the reality of her life with her son. It is a story of suffering and striving, imbued with the hope that she can encourage him to continue the climb she has started. It is a story of pain but ultimately also of hope. We were pleasantly surprised to find a recording of the poem as recited by a rather remarkable person. We share a video of that below as well.Mother To SonBy Langston HughesWell, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now—
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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[LincolnTalk] Free bike

[Kristine Barker]

Free youth sized (probably good sized for ages 9-12) Scrambler bike. About 31” 
from raised seat to ground. Needs a good cleaning and tune up, but it 
definitely works. Pick up S. Lincoln.



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[LincolnTalk] Kettler rowing machine for sale $100

[Steve Kropper]

Kettler Rowing Machine model 7977-900.
illustration 
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/kettler-kadett-rowing-machine/2573617.p?skuId=2573617

No computer attached (use your watch).
Foot pads partly broken but that does not impair utility.

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Re: [LincolnTalk] Free: Singer Sewing Machine -Taken!

[iearlerice--- via Lincoln]

 

On Monday, June 19, 2023 at 11:25:14 AM EDT, iearlerice--- via Lincoln 
 wrote:  
 
 Free: older model Singer Sewing Machine. Needs tune-up.  Great for beginner. 
Contact-less pick up. Please text me at (781) 258-0448.
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Re: [LincolnTalk] Free gymnastics mats

[lisa freedman]

Several folks have email. They are still out front. Come by and pick them up if 
you want them.

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From: Margo Fisher-Martin 
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2023 12:52:41 PM
To: lisa freedman 
Subject: Re: [LincolnTalk] Free gymnastics mats

If any are not taken I’d love them.
My osteo fitness class needs these.
TY
Cookie Martin

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mailto:laf...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Various sizes
Pick up 15 Linway Rd
Lincoln.

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[LincolnTalk] TAKEN: free bike

[Kristine Barker]

Thanks for all the interest, but the bike is no longer available.

Kristine 

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> On Jun 19, 2023, at 8:10 AM, Kristine Barker  
> wrote:
> Free youth sized (probably good sized for ages 9-12) Scrambler bike. About 
> 31” from raised seat to ground. Needs a good cleaning and tune up, but it 
> definitely works. Pick up S. Lincoln.
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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[LincolnTalk] My Turn: CCBC meetings focus on building size and parking lot

[Lynne Smith]

Below is a copy of the article that appeared in the Lincoln Squirrel today.
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My Turn: CCBC meetings focus on building size and parking lot
June 19, 2023 

By Lynne Smith

 
One of the reasons many of us suggested looking at other buildings in town to 
host programs for seniors was to reduce the size of buildings required on the 
small Hartwell campus. The space there is precious, especially the green space 
that hosts the approximately 150 children at LEAP and Magic Garden. Concerns 
about the size of the buildings and the location of the parking lot were 
discussed at both the June 13 public forum and the June 14 regular CCBC meeting.

At the public forum, ICON architect Ned Collier presented five site plans 
illustrating five cost levels. The plans included a variety of buildings: a new 
two-story building, a new one-story building, and renovations of existing pods. 
All plans required removal of the existing parking lot and a new one installed 
at the back of the building. All plans included the same cost of $3.5 million 
for site work. (Full description of the plans and the meeting included in the 
Lincoln Squirrel on June 14 

 and on the Lincoln Community Center website 
.)

Committee members and public attendees were seeing these plans for the first 
time and it was a lot to take in. I appreciated the printed version provided to 
those of us attending in person. For the 35 people on line, it must have been 
difficult to process so much information. Collier cautioned us that these were 
not “designs” but site plans.

For those of us who were hoping for a viable low-cost option, the site plan 
labeled 2A was a good start. The plan called for housing programs in 10,000 
square feet located in total renovation of pods A and B. Many in town believe 
that 9,000 to 10,000 square feet is sufficient for accommodating all the 
“needed” programs. However, as with all five plans, the parking lot behind the 
building came at the expense of the green space. Parents of children at LEAP 
and Magic Garden expressed concern as they realized what the loss of the 
playing areas would mean to the  approximately150 after-school and preschool 
children.

At the June 14 meeting, CCBC Chair Sarah Chester announced the agenda as a 
discussion of the comments from the forum the night before. Instead, committee 
members spent over an hour discussing the siting of the parking lot but did not 
reach a consensus decision. The discussion was important, but it should have 
been conducted in a working group weeks ago with ICON providing topography and 
other technical information.

The parking discussion delayed a topic that was at the core of the comments at 
the public forum: the attendance data that supports the required square 
footage. COA Director Abby Butt has provided a great deal of data but it does 
not include numbers for “actual attendance.” Serious people in Lincoln are 
asking for this data because they don’t want to support a building that is 
larger than required. Susan Taylor commented that this information is critical 
for answering community questions about the actual size required to meet 
program needs. Peter von Mertens suggested that these numbers be gathered for 
COA programs. (PRD attendance data has already been posted on the CCBC website 
.)
 Jonathan Dwyer volunteered to help Butt develop these numbers and bring them 
back to the committee in the next week or two. Collier said that ICON needed 
confidence that this number was solid for final development of the schematic 
design.

In the last few minutes of the meeting as it opened to the public, Dennis 
Picker read a prepared set of comments about ways to reduce the amount of 
“shared space” by utilizing existing town-owned buildings. He had carefully 
looked at the programs listed for the COA and concluded that about 1,500 square 
feet of space could be saved by having several regular programs at the Pierce 
House and Bemis Hall. Locating these programs off site would mean that a 
9,000-to-10,000-square-foot option on the Hartwell campus would not leave out 
valuable programs. He also proposed minimizing the amount of area devoted to 
lobby, reception area, and waiting rooms.

We need to consider carefully Picker’s suggestion, COA attendance data, and the 
location of the parking lot. I believe there is an opportunity to put a new 
building on the existing footprint of Pod A and leave the parking lot where it 
is. We could then do a slight remodel of Pod B so it could continue to be used 
for the maintenance facility and COA and PRD programs. That will save the 
wonderful green space and play areas at the back of the building. If the 
parking

[LincolnTalk] HFAC Agenda 6/20/2023

[Christopher Eliot]

Hanscom Field Advisory Commission
Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 7-8 p.m.
Location: Zoom video platform
h...@lincolntown.org

https://zoom.us/j/95621754230?pwd=b3A3UTJUR3I1U28ydW5WTVRtMi9xUT09
Meeting: 956 2175 4230 Passcode: 194503 Ph: (646) 876 9923

Pursuant to current state law, this meeting of the Hanscom Field Advisory 
Commission is being conducted via remote participation. Persons who would like 
to listen or view this meeting while in progress may do so by Zoom or by phone. 
All votes taken by this body shall be by roll call vote.

Agenda
HFAC provides continued communication and education among the communities 
surrounding Hanscom Field and Massport and acts as an advisory commission for 
review and reaction to decisions relating to Hanscom Field, including land use, 
noise abatement, and transportation needs.

Call to order
Announcements
I do not support a “civil disobedience” approach to the North Airfield.
How to on flight trackers.
Concord Select meeting May 22, 2023
Boston Based electric aviation company: 
>
Decline in private jet travel: 
>
 “In its report, WingX found that much of the decline coincided with a 
challenging charter environment, citing negative optics on sustainability.” … 
“Data also reveals 59 percent of business jet flights in North America in May 
have been less than 90 minutes in duration”
Frequent meetings during ENF comment period?
Approval of previous minutes
Minutes from 2/6/2023 meeting
Is there information about proposed new hangar space? 
Annual noise reports, presented by Massport
Recent noise reports, presented by Massport
Capital projects, third-party development report, presented by Massport
North Airfield
North Airfield Noise & Regional Impact / 1999 Noise Report
Continuing
Runway 5/23 / ESPR / MCAC
Citizen comments
Use *6 to mute or unmute on a phone. Please limit comments to two minutes.
Next meeting July 18, 2023: Bedford Infrastructure Impact / Fuel Farm / 
Historical Sites (no August meeting)
Adjourn

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[LincolnTalk] Free Pollinator Garden guide

[Leslie Turek]

The Native Plant Trust has published online a free pollinator garden guide.

Gardening for Pollinators
Planning, Creating, and Maintaining a Pollinator Garden: A 5-Step Guide.

http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/documents/1169/GardeningForPollinators_2023.pdf
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