Everyone is familiar with the saga of Alex Haley.
The best-selling author chronicled his family's history, tracing his lineage back to Kunta Kinte, captured and forced into slavery in Africa, brought to the United States, and eventually Haley several generations later.
His book, "Roots, the saga of an American Family," was made into one of the biggest mini-series and TV events in history.
It is that sense of tracing our roots - and history - that brought a group of people to Providence Friends Meeting recently.
You might call it Delco's own version of "Roots."
There they celebrated a bit of history of their own, one that also deals with that most simple underpinning of our American experiment: The yearning to be free.
We talk about it on today's editorial page.
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