Peggy Noonan: Miracle on Fulton Street (FreeRepublic mentioned!)

Opinion Journal ^ | 12/14/2001 | Peggy Noonan

[Pokey78]

The El, the book party and the site of the Virgin.

My friends, this is the kind of column I used to do now and then before the world changed. I tell you what I've been doing and thinking and if you're interested you get a cup of coffee and sit down and read along, and if you're not you can go back to OpinionJournal's main page, or Drudge, or Salon, or Free Republic.

[SuziQ]

I once saw her on CSpan with Shelby Foote, the civil war historical writer, and they read aloud old letters from soldiers to their families. His musical Southern voice is as beautiful as hers. Needless to say, I was sitting in a puddle by the time they finished reading.

Oh Man!! What a treat that must have been!! I loved Ken Burn's Civil War series mainly for the anecdotes told by Shelby Foote. Someday I will tackle his three volume History of the Civil War. If he wrote it like he speaks, it will be a pleasure to read, and I'll probably be hearing his voice the whole time.

I think Martin Sheen must have studied Shelby Foote's voice when he did Robert E. Lee in "Gettysburg"!

[Inge_CAV]

Thanks TxBec, and a Bump back at ya. : )

[abner]

Peggy bump!

[John O]

But it is not the American dream to want to live outside a suburb of Tulsa in a $600 a month apartment. It is the American dream to, among other things, be at the book party celebrating your friend's bestseller surrounded by brilliant, accomplished and interesting Americans who take part in the world, who are immersed in it and try to turn it this way and that.

I agreed with and enjoyed everything but this. For some of us a house in the suburbs is the American dream. Being trapped in NY in a book party is something reserved for only the blackest and most evil of souls (Kind of like being forced to wallpaper forever in a room with crooked walls)

I want to be in my own rural or small town home, surrounded by friends and family. I have found the brilliant, accomplished and interesting Americans to usually be enemies of my way of life, stupid (as to the really importnat things) and boring.

[and yes my house payment is about $600. Peggy's too used to NY prices to know what reality is in the small town housing market]

God Save America (Please)

[eureka!]

Peggy Noonan is such a treasure. I hope she reads your 2 Cents on occasion John, as I am sure she would enjoy them...

[stanz]

Thanks for the ping. A good article.

[TLBSHOW]

AMAZING STORY

[Flyer]

"They found Osama! They caught bin Laden!" And the street stopped stock still and then someone cheered and then we all cheered,

I think this is how it will be.

[Alamo-Girl]

bump!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Excellent article by Peggy Noonan. Thank you!

We work so hard to find happiness. But more and more I think of what a friend told me on the phone 10 years ago after I had written an essay on the subject. He called and said: "This is a famous quote from someone, I forget who, and this is what you mean. 'Happiness is a cat. Chase it and it will elude you, it will hide. But sit and peacefully do your work, live your life and show your love and it will silently come to you and curl itself upon your feet.' "

So very true.

[EternalVigilance]

Ah, Peggy Noonan...

Been an emotional morning for me anyhow...then to read this!

Found myself tearing up a couple times because of Peggy's insightful knowledge of my fellow Americans, and our current state of mind and heart.

God, bless Peggy Noonan. Please.

[Bigg Red]

And Peggy is such a refined lady. How can she be 50? Wow!

[imus63]

Hi! Sugar, You have a Freepmail!

[austinTparty]

Muchas gracias, king o' ping! Gawd, I love Peggy Noonan's columns. Guaranteed to balance out a good deal of crap one reads from lesser writers.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Thanks. I Loved this. I will bookmark it for the sites she mentions. In fact, I'm going to some of them now :o)

I'm sure Peggy already belongs to FR. Maybe she is a lurker.. or maybe she is ??? (There are so many screen names she could be).

Barbara Olsen was (and forever will be) a Freeper. A prime example of how we have the "best of the best" at FreeRepublic. :o)

[Mudboy Slim]

What State does Peggy Noonan vote in, my FRiend? She'd make an excellent Senator, IMHO.

FReegards...MUD

[JulieRNR21]

When I was a child, I visited many relatives who lived in Brooklyn..... Peggy's column jingled my memory and touched my heart strings......thanks for the ping!

It also reminded me that although I haven't lived in NYC since I was twenty....in my heart I will always be a NYer!

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the "heads up" on a superb, as always, Peggy Noonan article! ;o)

[HighWheeler]

Thanks susangirl, Peggy Noonan is a gem. Do you know if she makes television appearances?

[SusanUSA]

Do you know if she makes television appearances?"

Yes,she does. She's on Hannity and Colmes often.