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...vanished time of simpler Fourths of July, Woodrow Wilson proudly hailed the American flag as "the emblem of our unity." For many Americans on Independence Day in 1970, to unfurl, or not unfurl, the front-porch flag is an unsettling dilemma. What was once an easy, automatic rite of patriotism has become in many cases a considered political act, burdened with overtones and conflicting meanings greater than Old Glory was ever meant to bear. In the tug of war for the nation's will and soul, the flag has somehow become the symbolic rope... Some, mostly the defiant young, blow...
...Amount of new local fine for keeping upholstered furniture on a porch or outdoors in University Hill...
Born in Evanston, Ill. in 1922, Whitehead grew up in Montclair, NJ, the son of a telephone lineworker who lost his job in the depression and sold porch furniture to keep afloat...
...soil was now too soft for planting, so there seemed nothing else to do but relax on the vine-draped porch of the comfortable guest cottage, admire the views across the valley to Mount Te Mata, and look forward to a home-cooked meal washed down with a glass or two from local vineyards...
...Leary had made up the lyrics to “More Veritas, Please” sitting on his porch in Cambridge’s Riverside neighborhood. It’s a song of protest against the university that has slowly been taking over the place where he lives...