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...before Independence Day, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby devoted his op-ed column to a stirring remembrance of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, many of whom are now forgotten to history. He reserved his highest praise for an obscure signer from New Jersey, John Hart. Read carefully: "[Hart] was forced to flee in the winter of 1776, at the age of 65, from his dying wife's bedside. While he hid in forests and caves, his home was demolished, his fields and mill laid waste, and his 13 children put to flight. When it was finally safe...
Nothing wrong with that. But the very next day, the syndicated advice columnist Ann Landers reprinted a column a reader had sent her with an eerily similar theme and strikingly similar language: "John Hart was driven from the bedside of his dying wife," the column read. "Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year, he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children gone. He died shortly thereafter, heartbroken." It also so happens that this clip closely resembled a passage from...
...sounds fishy at first. A quick poll reveals that no one I know has ever heard of John Hart, and when two writers honor him in nearly identical language, the natural reaction is to suspect that perhaps Jacoby was in Florida for Independence Day a few years...
...writing about John Hart wasn't the Tampa Tribune's idea, either. In fact, this forgotten patriot has had a cameo in a half-dozen recent newspaper columns--and that's just what I could find in a two-minute search on the Internet...
...Complementing Jellin's talent on the front line were the skills of junior middle hitter Katherine Hart, who will serve as co-captain next year with classmate Sarah Mattson, and sophomore outside hitter Erin Denniston. Long considered one of the most versatile players in the league, Hart was named to the All-Ivy First Team after averaging 2.78 kills and 2.85 digs per game and led the team with 107 blocks for the year...