Edith Pearlman
ON THE first Tuesday of every May (it's May 6, this year) the citizens of Brookline make a belated acknowledgment of Thomas Jefferson's birthday (it's April 13, every year). They go to the polls. Brookline, like 50 other New England towns, is governed by a representative town meeting. Each town meeting member is elected by his precinct - his neighbors. ... (Full article: 713 words)
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