CENTRAL MAINE • December 12, 2024
Bravo for the outstanding and thoughtful column by Ron Joseph (“When my high school ate moose meat,” Dec. 5). Joseph tells the story of hunting season back in 1965 at high school in Oakland. Back then, guns were used prolifically, including by students, to hunt. What a long, strange trip it’s been since young boys toted firearms to school freely to today’s gun massacres, school shootings and fear and loathing among students, their parents and teachers. To me, this column was one of the most beautiful and thoughtful pieces of writing I have seen in 55 years of reading the Kennebec Journal. ~ John Hale, North Monmouth