Good lord! There was an attempted coup in Turkey now, with hundreds dead? Medical science seems to be able to keep ahead of the pandemics, yet we just keep killing one another off.

Allegedly the coup’s mastermind has been operating out of Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania – just 25 minutes north of the town of my birth. What happened to soda fountains, five-and-dimes, farmers markets and drive-in movies? Now they’re overthrowing governments? We’ve come a long way from Mayberry, alas.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey-coup-attempt-military-gunfire-ankara

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/16/fethullah-gulen-turkey-coup-erdogan

Here’s the Symphony No. 1 by Turkish composer Ulvi Cemal Erkin: