Attribution: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper and Phyllis joining in the 250thanniversary celebration of Paul Revere’s famous ride, and the keeper remembering when he traveled the country in doing a bicentennial series for the Milwaukee Journal and talked a young sexton into allowing him to climb up into the famous tower of the Old North Church in Boston.
Among the many memorable experiences of that project, climbing into the Old North Church tower and standing in the cramped isolation to think about where the famous signal lanterns might have hung was an awesome memory maker that obviously still prevails.
The keeper can still see the unpainted framework and the light coming in through the upper tower windows. The memory spawns the question: How many lanterns should be hung to signal an enemy coming from within by deceit and malevolence?
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