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‘Our Town:’ Thornton Wilder’s play carries basic truths, 75 years after opening

"Our Town," Thornton Wilder's three-act play set in a small town in New Hampshire a century ago, turns 75 Tuesday. It was Jan. 22, 1938, when the main character, the Stage Manager, first guided an audience through the play - staged at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.

January 20, 2013 | Tack Cornelius | Viewpoint


Commentary: Lincoln looked toward a new birth of freedom ‘under God’

Gather together a few friends today, friends who love words and freedom and American history, and revisit a high peak in our long struggle to move closer to the ideals of the Declaration: The dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery at Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863, 149 years ago Monday.

November 18, 2012 | Tack Cornelius | Viewpoint


Cornelius: Giving children joy in the written, spoken word

My wife, Janie, came early in life to her love of poetry and reading, a gift from her grandmother, Cora Lee Stull Blakeman. "Granny," who attended a one-room school in the Appalachian section of Kentucky, could recite scores of poems "by heart," by the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Walt Whitman.

August 28, 2012 | Tack Cornelius | Community columnists


Cornelius: Old Testament violence not the real threat

Joan King ("Faith Gone Wrong Can Lead to War," June 16) is right about blood flowing freely in the Old Testament. Of course there's much more as well: truth and wisdom; great poetry; the thoughtful puzzling of men and women over God's will and ways; stories about the Israelites and their relationship to God, one another, and the peoples around them.

July 17, 2009 | Tack Cornelius | Community columnists


Cornelius: In defense of politics and politicians

Americans love democracy, but mostly hate politics. Many would rid us of politics if they could. They say things like: "We'll never get good government until we get rid of all the politics and politicians."

May 18, 2009 | Tack Cornelius | Community columnists


Lincoln: 'Let us strive on to finish the work we are in...'

"Yours of the 25th suggesting the names of Col. Fremont, and Messrs. Hunt, Raynor, and Gilmer for places in the Cabinet is received. I had thought of all of them before, but not very definitely of any except Mr. Gilmer ... If you will ascertain his feelings, and write me, I shall be obliged. Our German friends might not be quite satisfied with his appointment, but I think we could appease them."

February 08, 2009 | For The Times | Viewpoint


Cornelius: Mystic chords touch hearts, election

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

November 16, 2008 | Tack Cornelius | Community columnists


Cornelius: Lighting out for the territory, and for a new birth of freedom

At the end of his adventures, Huckleberry Finn, the boy hero of the quintessentially American novel, did a quintessentially American thing: He decided to "light out for the territory." It was natural. Aunt Sally's ways were suffocating, stifling for a boy like Huck.

July 18, 2008 | Guest columnist | Community columnists


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