PETER O’CONNOR Guest Columnist opinion@lbknews.com I wrote a while ago about the departure of our seasonal residents and visitors from Longboat Key. It has been truly quiet this year. Now we too are about to leave, if only for a few days. As you read these pages Pat and I will be off to New [...]

This column should reach you, our loyal readers, a day or two before Christmas. That means we might depart from the usual opinion, to concentrate on well wishing. I’d like to do that as I approach my 75th Christmas.

That’s ‘summah,’ as we say in New England. I like to think of myself as a New Englander, if not a true Bostonian in spite of my native New Yorker status. I served in both Connecticut and Rhode Island before my later years in Massachusetts