Words of John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower and many folk singers echo around this troubled world.

Holly Near is on a nationwide tour including San Francisco, Chicago, Concord, Nantucket and here in The Old Whaling Church on Sunday, July 22. Her songs of peace have inspired many for over 30 years. Our 50 to 60-year-old daughters alerted us to her music and we have been Singing for Our Lives ever since. In fact that song is Number 170 in the Unitarian Hymnal! So congregations have been singing it for decades. We all can swing with its lyrics.

War is not the answer. Singing for peace may be.

Roger and Jane Thayer
Edgartown