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Column: All the Presidents Can Tell Whoppers All Right, and They Do

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsNovember 24, 2018

The author hangs his ties from a railing in his home. (Paul Keane photograph)

Life Here: An Expansive Tie Collection Moves to Larger Quarters

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsOctober 26, 2018

A line drawing of Charley Parkhurst, who was a well-known stagecoach driver in California, moved there from the Upper Valley after she was raised in an orphanage. (Courtesy Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History)

Column: In Sharon, Monument to the Birth of a Gender Revolutionary

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsOctober 13, 2018

A World War I-era certificate issued by the state of Connecticut was the author's first clue that he had a long lost uncle. Sen. Patrick Leahy's office helped him sort out the details. (Courtesy Paul Keane)

Life Here: A Senator’s Office Helps Solve a Family Mystery

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsSeptember 28, 2018

A New Haven police officer places an apparent K2 synthetic marajuana cigarette into an evidence bag after responding to a couple who passed out on a bench across the street from City Hall on the New Haven Green Thursday morning, Aug. 16, 2018. This follows a day in which over 30 people on the Green overdosed from the effects of smoking K2. (Cloe Poisson/Hartford Courant/TNS)

Column: New Haven’s Enlightened Approach to Addiction

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsSeptember 1, 2018

KRT TRAVEL STORY SLUGGED: UST-DETROIT KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN SOLOMON/CHICAGO TRIBUNE (September 6) The 1952 version of the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile is just one of the artifacts of industry presented at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. (cdm) 2005

Life Here: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to ‘Macbeth’

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsAugust 3, 2018

Paul Keane, of Hartford, Vt., at the Gettysburg National Military Park in 1998, standing under the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee mounted on his favorite horse, Traveller. (Photograph courtesy of Paul Keane)

Column: Lessons From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsJune 30, 2018

A portion of Paul Keane’s FBI file from 1972. (Courtesy of Paul Keane)

Column: Thanks to the FBI, I Know How Donald Trump Feels

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsJune 1, 2018

Don Colby (back right, in the orange cap) with the Hartford schools summer painting crew in 2006. Colby died April 24 at age 85. (Photograph courtesy of Paul Keane)

Life Here: A Graceful Leader of a Summer Work Crew

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsMay 18, 2018

Mary Ann Vecchio gestures and screams as she kneels by the body of a student lying face down on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, on May 4, 1970. National Guardsmen had fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing four. (AP Photo/John Filo)

Column: My Small Role in Preserving the History of the Kent State Massacre

by Paul Keane For the Valley NewsMay 3, 2018