Recently, I had the great opportunity to get together with old friends (are there any other kinds these days?) at the venerable Lenox Club in Lenox. For you history buffs, the Lenox Club was founded in 1864 in the Berkshires, and then incorporated as a Reading Club for Gentlemen in 1874.
As we sat on the veranda sipping cocktails and lying to each other about how great we looked and how we hadn’t changed a bit, groups of similarly aged people started arriving, about 40 in all. The Music Room, the Ladies’ Parlor and the Gentlemen’s Library were set up for group discussions.
I asked one of the attendees what was going on. He said it was an ad hoc group of citizens concerned about age and term limits in American political life, and how they affected the three branches of the federal government. An organizer later shared a summary with me of how it went.
