Two quick notes of personal thanks on this last Sunday morning in June…
I am grateful for all the positive responses from subscribers in the past week about my “How You Erase History” post of last Sunday. Many readers kindly said you hoped it could have a much broader circulation in this time of stress around the issues of racial history and public memory.
Well, my friend David Plazas, the editorial director for the USA Today Network Tennessee, agreed. Today wasn’t my normal turn on the editorial pages, but David made it so. (Find it on Page 4H in The Tennessean this morning. Our friend Mike Cody, in Memphis, also dropped me a note just now saying it’s running in the Sunday Commercial Appeal.)
Speaking of growing circulation… I am also grateful to each of you who responded to our recent “Invite a Friend” appeal, asking if you would reach out to someone you know who might also subscribe to these Field Notes. Boy, did that work! Yesterday we learned our new subscriber count now stands at 484. As we approach the 500 mark, I’m humbled by this acceptance of the new platform. My thanks to all subscribers, old and new.
Today we Americans, in each of our communities and across the nation, are feeling our way forward now through an unprecedented collision of dizzying crises. All this is testing our public citizenship, our sense of the common good, and also our leadership choices. I feel it’s essential now that we stay in touch, building new bridges where we can, comparing notes on what it means for our democracy, and of course the best way to proceed.
I thank you for staying in touch with me.
My thanks to you all, with my best wishes for good health, new friends, and much healing across our country.
-Keel
KEEL HUNT
Keel Hunt is a regular columnist for The Tennessean, frequent photographer and travel aficionado… and recently the author of his second book "Crossing the Aisle: How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee into the 21st Century and Could Save America," debuting this October.
