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Yesterday was the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The battle is noteworthy because it was the first major engagement between the colonial militia and the British troops. Eight weeks earlier, an intense fight had occurred at Lexington, Concord and on the route back to Boston, but while those…
Read More »Here we go again. We will hear more and more about the New Hampshire Primary of 2012 as the weeks are peeled off the calendar and the new year approaches. I don’t get it. Why should New Hampshire be even one day before Massachusetts in the schedule of caucuses and primaries? I…
Read More »The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene online site has an excellent new review of Paul Hudon’s book-length poem “All in Good Time” (Loom Press) by Irene Koronas of Wilderness House Literary Review. Paul Hudon’s writing, his poems, are open, contemporary; they inspire, invite the reader in. His language resolves…
Read More »Thanks to George DeLuca on Facebook for this link to a Guardian in the UK article about the Buddhist wiseman Thich Nhat Hahn’s statements on living in balance on Earth. Read the article here. Sustainability Week has become the theme for every week starting now. Web photo by Frank Schweitzer, courtesy of…
Read More »In the network of National Parks, Monuments, Recreation Areas, Historial Parks, Battlefields, and other units, Golden Gate in San Francisco is one of the most spectacular for a scenic vista dominated by a wonder of technology, the big red-orange bridge. The people of San Francisco have planned a year-long celebration…
Read More »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 the master of ceremonies. He exhorted…
Read More »“Number One” gets a cleaning as part of his park’s redo (by Tony Sampas)
Read More »When Lowell National Historical Park was signed into law in 1978, people involved with creating it often talked about how it would be a different kind of Park because Lowell is a “living city” and wasn’t about to be frozen in time for tourism. The Park is the city, and…
Read More »Perhaps lost or at least a bit below the radar is the reality that the job of the Joint Redistricting Committee is to review and possibly realign the state senate and state rep districts across the Commonwealth. It was evident at the hearing at Lawrence High School last Monday evening…
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