Howard Fast wrote one of his great novels on this champion of freedom - 'Citizen Tom Paine'
We used to drive through his birthplace, 'Thetford'. in Norfolk, every time we visited Walter Pardon
His immortal words, "These are the times that try men's souls" were used to introduce the wonderful send-up of Boston's Underground Railway System, 'M.T.A.' (Metropolitan Transit Authority) by The Kingston Trio - I'm sure he would have been very amused
Jim Carroll