Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather: Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Enjoy this last blast of civilized cigar weather. Sunday Night: Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
At the Flagler Playhouse: “Company,” the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim, has its last performance at 2:30 p.m. at Flagler Playhouse, 301 E Moody Blvd, Bunnell. Tickets are $25.00, and $20 for students 21 and younger with ID. Book tickets here.
Notably: Clarence Darrow, the criminal lawyer who defended murderers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb–they had killed a 14-year-old boy while reasoning, like Raskolnikov of his murder of two women in Crime and Punishment, that their intelligence and ends justified the crime–who defended Big Bill Haywood and two other miners accused of plotting a governor’s assassination, Eugene Debs and the American Railway Union, who represented John Scopes in the Tennessee Scopes trial of 1925, who advocated for the poor, for labor, for atheists and agnostics, and against the death penalty (no one he represented was sentenced to death), died on this day in Chicago in 1938. A part-time epigrammatist, he fad famously said: “No man is white and no man is Black. We are all freckled.” And: “Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.”
Henry Fonda starred in “Clarence Darrow,” a one-man play by David Rintels and directed by John Houseman. In 1974 NBC aired the play, adapted for television, in a 90-minute special on Sept. 4, sponsored by IBM. It was in later years rebroadcast by PBS. It is one of Fonda’s finer performances. Here is the play in full:
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May 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Al-Anon Family Groups
RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
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“I am engaged in the difficult task of trying to preserve a Constitution instead of destroying it, and I am seeking to save for the people of this country such liberties as they have left. It is hard for me to realize that men of power and some intellect would seek to terrorize men and women into obedience to their opinions. We wiggled along for a hundred and fifty years without this Espionage Law, and we did pretty well. Where did it come from? It came from the people who would strangle criticism; it came from the people who would place their limits upon your brain and mine, and if we give them their way in this world, every man, if he would be safe, should wear a padlock on his lips and only take it off to feed himself and lock it up after he gets through. No man would dare speak above a whisper; no man would feel himself safe to belong to an organization, whether it was for American freedom, Russian freedom, Irish freedom or any freedom, because the word ‘freedom’ is the most dangerous word that the English language knows. The time will come very soon when America will be ashamed of her cowardly attempt to send men to jail under laws of this kind; ashamed of the suppression of freedom of thought and freedom of speech which is making a madhouse of a once-free land.”
–From Clarence Darrow’s defense of Arthur Person, accused of supporting the violent overthrow of the government because he joined the Communist Party, April 1920 (he was found not guilty).
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