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We Don’t Need Your Civil War
Because I drive through Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park every day, the American Civil War is part of the wallpaper of my...
Daniel Vollaro
Nov 25, 20225 min read


I Am Not Competing With You: A Labor Day Reflection
I grew up expecting to compete in life. Competition was just part of the zeitgeist in the 1980s. America was competing with the Soviets...
Daniel Vollaro
Nov 25, 20225 min read


We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 1999: Two TV Documentaries Grapple with the Other Woodstock
I remember the night Woodstock burned. The scenes on CBS news were shocking. A half dozen fires burning in the darkness of night as young...
Daniel Vollaro
Aug 10, 20226 min read


Leaving No Trace
Last week, Pope Francis traveled to Canada to apologize for the Church’s role in a cultural genocide against indigenous people. In the...
Daniel Vollaro
Jul 31, 20225 min read


A Lenten Rose on Little Kennesaw Mountain
Spring is here, not a date on a calendar but a scent in the breeze, a feeling of air moving the hairs on my arm, the tweet-tweet-tweet of...
Daniel Vollaro
Mar 9, 20227 min read
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