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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For real escape through summer reading, there’s no substitute for fiction. Here are a few books worth sharing. My top read this past year was The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. A 13-year-old boy in Manhattan survives a terrorist…
Read More »Here are some interesting facts about July 4th, 1776 and the Declaration of Independence. There were actually 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Individual delegates signed the Declaration of Independence at different times, some as late as August 1776. The only three confirmed to have signed on July 4,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Every summer I offer up some of the books I’ve read in the past year and happily invite readers’ recommendations to me. I’m always on the prowl for a good read. This summer’s book review will be in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Ann Coulter must have been hit on the head by a soccer ball, and it was no planned header. Her recent column , a screed against the sport and America’s growing interest in it, seems unhinged. She asserts…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Question for gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley: if you knew that the legitimacy of the casino repeal referendum would end up at the Supreme Judicial Court regardless of how you decided on its constitutionality and you’re supposedly fine with its being…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo NY Daily News I rarely agree with (Wisconsin GOP Congressman) Paul Ryan, but in this recent kerfuffle over “lost” IRS emails, he struck a responsive chord. Speaking to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen at a House…
Read More »This morning I ventured to the Ogunquit Beach (Maine) parking lot to watch the beginning of what is called The Great Race. Over one hundred vintage and antique cars lined up side to side to fill the lot. Hundreds of spectator took pictures and/or just looked (including me). At exactly…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Yes, yes, it’s important to see the big picture. But sometimes viewing life from 30,000 feet is not actually better. Two stories in today’s Boston Globe show how grand urban plans or budget metrics can sacrifice a touch of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. President Obama said Friday the United States will not be sending American troops back into Iraq. That was firmer than his earlier comment that every possible response to the sectarian war was on the table. The difference is a important. Insanity, we are…
Read More »On June 12, 2014, Kennebunkport celebrated former President George H W Bush’s 90th birthday with cake, ice cream, music and card making. Click photo to enlarge.
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