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Two more bulletins from Martha’s Vineyard by our far-flung correspondent Ray LaPorte. So, the handy Wikipedia tells us that English seaman Bartholomew Gosnold ventured near the Atlantic coast in 1602 and named a smaller island near today’s M.V. for his young daughter who had died—and historians say the name migrated…
Read More »Last month I had the good fortune to spend a week in Berlin, Germany. It’s an amazing city and its multitude of iconic buildings and public statues make it resemble one giant museum although it has plenty of those, too. It’s almost as if during the Cold War when there…
Read More »From one end of the continent to the other, here is a poem by Tom Sexton, written on the road last last spring as he and his wife, Sharyn, made their way from Maine back to Alaska for another season. We do have our far-flung correspondents. Tom Sexton is…
Read More »One of our loyal readers and far-flung occasional correspondents, Ray LaPorte of Martha’s Vineyard, sent his reflections in anticipation of this summer’s Presidential visit to the island. Ray has been off shore for years, with his wife, Bernadette, following earlier life passages in Pawtucketville, Worcester, New York City, and Washington,…
Read More »Dr. Joseph D. Sweeney – born February 5.1904 -one of nine surviving children of Felix and Catherine Sweeney – well-known and highly regarded physician and surgeon – died on August 9, 1963 – 50 years ago today. Born, raised, resided in the Sacred Heart parish, he was a proud alum of…
Read More »“Garden Path” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »There was some buzz and rattle on the web yesterday when the online appliance of a venerable magazine with a Boston root system, The Atlantic, posted a fizzy report about a made-up episode in the life and times of John L. Kerouac, all of it putting Lowell in the news…
Read More »There’s always that Lowell connection! George Price – current Superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park was formerly a Deputy Superintendent in Lowell. Today MassMoments reminds us that it was on this day fifty years ago – August 7, 1961 that President John F. Kennedy signed the bill authorizing the…
Read More »“… Just as he describes it, the Concord narrows dramatically and shallows out over a ‘yellow pebbly bottom’ as it approaches the falls in Billerica, where the Thoreaus went off on the Middlesex Canal and where Kaz and I were to rendezvous with my wife, Yolanda Whitman, in her Odyssey.…
Read More »Buddy Guy drove his musical Mack truck right through the center of a packed Boarding House Park this past Saturday night and left everybody staggering from the blues wallop that he put on us. We go to the pavilion on these nights like lowly moths drawn to lamps, hoping to…
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