Lessons of Sandy

s Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast, I confess feeling an odd sense of excited foreboding. As a New Jersey expatriate — I followed an Arkansas girl home from school and never looked back — I haven’t lived there since college, but haven’t entirely lost my feeling for the state, either. The place where you spent your first 20 years leaves an indelible mark.

By: Gene Lyons, The Dickinson Press