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By Sarah E. Murphy Falmouth joined towns and cities across America on Monday, February 17, for a peaceful protest in opposition of Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), overseen by billionaire Elon Musk. The message mirrored the name of the event: We Choose To Fight. The “No Kings Day” protest was a galvanized…
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Sarah E. Murphy My mother’s mother, Johanna Irene “Josie” Gaudet, was born on this day in 1894, in Pleasant View, Prince Edward Island, where she grew up on a farm as the second of seven children, three girls and four boys. She boarded a ship in St. Louis, PEI at age 28, by herself, emigrating from…
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By Sarah E. Murphy When I first read about – and later heard – the ignorant, hateful “Lock her up!” chants directed at our former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, it was eerily reminiscent of an incident I experienced in junior high. It was 1985. I was thirteen years old, a seventh-grader…


