To the Editor:

 Right after the parade in that pouring rain, Barbara Bloom and I were huddled under a small tree on Queen Street waiting for some of the men to dismantle the Republican Town Committee tent.  A car drove up to the curb, the window opened, and a woman handed out an umbrella and said “Here, here's an umbrella – you can keep it.”

 Now. how nice is that?

Barbara O'Connor

36 Little Brook Lane, Newtown                    September 3, 2013