After 16 months of building tensions with little opportunity for release, emerging from pandemic prohibition was like riding a social wave through the floodgates. Music and laughter can be heard from every direction. Last week, someone wrote a letter to the SandPaper editor, aptly describing this era as the “Roaring ’20s.”

Considering the original Roaring ’20s immediately followed the pandemic of its century – the Spanish flu – there may just be something to that.

There is something to be said for human nature’s ability to survive a period rife with disease, fear and isolation, and…