Articles by Nancy Kelly Smith

To the Moon & beyond

The evening of July 20, 1969, I sat transfixed staring at the television along with other staff members of the summer camp where I was working. We were watching the…

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Monkey see, monkey do

I was on the phone recently with my sister-in-law in California. Not surprisingly, our conversation eventually turned to our pre-school age grandsons and our children. She related this time that…


Hooray for Independence Day!

John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers, believed that the Fourth of July should be celebrated with “solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty” as well as “pomp and parade,…