In on a Friday, again. So it’s a special Friday edition of “Evening Coffee,” and we’re pointing the mug toward Millersville University.
Members of the public, you won’t get to meet Bill Ayers in person when he comes to MU’s campus on March 19. It’s unlikely you will even see Ayers in person, period. Find out why in tomorrow’s Intell.
Trust me, Ayers is still coming to MU, so if you were hoping the event was cancelled, sorry to disappoint you.
Around the political world now in just a few paragraphs:
*Can abortion laws prevent stem cell research? Find out in this story by Steve Snyder of my former employer, the Lebanon Daily News.
*State agencies just aren’t cutting enough spending, Gov. Ed Rendell says in a statement I’m sure a few Republicans around here will say: “Well, duh!” The Philadelphia Inquirer has the story.
*Well, there’s a certain holiday coming Tuesday that’s near to my heart, and this weekend will likely mean a lot of people of actual Irish decent - and a few amateurs, too - will be out to celebrate. My thoughts are turned toward my lineage, tradesmen from County Galway who came here and worked the railroads, according to Mary Catherine, my grandmother.
I’m also reminiscing about a year and a half ago when I hiked up the holy mountain in Ireland, Croagh Patrick, where a certain Welsh man fasted at the top of the summit cone for 40 days and then supposedly drove out the snakes from Ireland. If you ever make it to Ireland and have stout legs, give Croagh Patrick a good try. From its summit, where a white church stands, you have a 360 degree view of the Connemara mountains, County Mayo countryside and Clew Bay, shimmering in aquamarine beneath the Atlantic sky.
We’ll depart this week with a performance by the Young Dubliners, a band whose material has been getting heavy rotation on my iPod this last week. See you Monday:
I am going, I am going
Any which way the winds may be blowing
I am going, I am going
Where streams of whiskey are flowing
