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With all the activity around home and the Democratic convention, I have been a laggard about my blogging. The recent “out of the blue” proposal for a slots parlor in the town of Tewksbury – in fact for a site just down the road from my North Tewksbury home – has gotten…
Read More »Prospects of the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial primary that would include the incumbent and party-entrenched State Treasurer Steve Grossman and two prominent doctors – one Joe Avellone – with corporate administrative experience – the other – Donald Berwick with Obama administration experience, hasn’t kept many Dems from looking for other candidates. The names…
Read More »Helen Keller – an American author, political activist, and lecturer – was born on this day June 17, 1880. Her relationship with Annie Sullivan – who was sent to live at the Tewksbury Almshouse (now Hospital) after her mother died – is memorialized with a Mico Kaufman sculpture located next to…
Read More »John F Kennedy’s daughter Caroline makes a speech at the former home of the Kennedy family in Dunganstown, Co Wexford, Ireland, Saturday June 22, 2013. Members of the Kennedy family are gathered in Ireland as part of a celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy’s visit to…
Read More »A fond memory of President John F. Kennedy’s trip to Ireland fifty years ago today – from the blog archive: John F. Kennedy Goes Home ~ Days in Ireland by Marie President John F. Kennedy stands in an open car while a large crowd cheers as the President’s motorcade passes through…
Read More »Today’s Eagle-Tribune is reporting that former State Senator Jim Jajuga is among those who pulled papers for the fall 2013 Methuen City Council race. In our chat at State Senator Barry Finegold’s event last week, Jim certainly seemed primed and ready to return to the active, day-to-day politics of Methuen. In…
Read More »Note: Dick and I were on the same page this morning about “Bunker Hill” – posting about Nathaniel Philbrick’s take on Bunker Hill. My husband Bill Sweeney just finished the Philbrick book and had lots of good things to say. I’m suggesting this Smithsonian article as a place to start your…
Read More »Bunker Hill Monument From the archives: MassMoments reminds us that on this day – June 17, 1825 – on the 50th anniversary of the battle the cornerstone was laid for the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Daniel Webster, seen by some as the greatest orator in U.S. history was…
Read More »Happy Father’s Day to my colleagues Dick and Paul and to my husband Bill and all those fathers – some who have passed on – so important in our lives. Below ~ Father’s Day as a Norman Rockwell image.
Read More »From This Day in History from History.com: On this day in 1777, during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing…
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