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Back when screens had rabbit ear antennae and were limited to 5 channels, a commercial laden version of The Sound of Music would air on TV once a year. In my childhood desperation to fully absorb all music, I learned the soundtrack by heart. There’s a scene early in the film in which the aspiring nun, Maria, is sent away …

There is a long story to be told here, so I shall attempt to cut to the chase wherever possible. I first saw the HIB from the Delaware bus, on my way home from volunteering at the Theodore Roosevelt Site (I became a docent there in 1999) but it simply didn’t occur to me that I might actually become a …