The first item listed on the agenda for the September 10, Putnam County Commission meeting, “Recognition of Harold Brown, Retired Putnam County Commissioner,” puzzled me.

Harold Brown? I became a Putnam resident in 1971 when I married into the politically active Hurricane Breeze family. I had met every county commissioner who had served since 1966 except for one who had moved to Florida following his term on the commission and it was not Harold Brown.…