Photograph by Kristin Strohmeyer The Reverend Ann Stillman with The Right Reverend Gladstone B. "Skip" Adams III, Bishop of Central New York, at her ordination at St. Paul's Cathedral in Syracuse last Saturday.
Because an earlier story about Rev. Stillman's ordination did not tell readers about her earlier life, I telephoned and asked her if I could write just a few words about her first career and the fact that since 1978 she had taught English and Public Speaking at the New Hartford High School, retiring two years ago at the age of 73. Obviously, she said "Yes!" and she will also be the first to admonish the rest of us that, "It's never too late!"
Quite early this morning, Mr. Cleary, on Sanger Avenue, hung Italy's colors at his front door - in honor, of course, of Christopher Columbus. And at nearly the same time, further to the South on Sanger, a blue flag with a yellow cross --- the Swedish flag --- appeared next to the Lews' front door. Just a little reminder that in some parts of the world -- near Stockholm, Sweden, for instance, where Mr. Lew's father was born, and even here in Waterville -- there are those who are of the firm opinion that it was not Mr. Columbus who "discovered" America but, in fact, a Swedish Viking by the name of Leif Erickson who was the first to step on the Northern shores of this continent, and not just by a day or two, but by as much as 500 years.
