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I don’t have a set routine for the Fourth of July but the day inevitably involves a fun family cookout and ends in front of the TV watching the Boston Pops from the Esplanade. The “national” show that we’ve seen in the final hour of the production the past few…
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Read More »Jim Peters shares another of his essays: I have cancer. No big deal, just late-in-life non-Hodgekins lymphoma. I have basically tried to the best of my limited ability to keep it a secret because it has no bearing on my ability to do my job, or my relationships, or really…
Read More »Congratulations to the Bread & Roses Centennial committee in Lawrence for a massive success in the use of social media. On Facebook, the organization’s page has 1,081 followers (LIKES), which is an extraordinary number for a local history initiative. This is not Ashton Kutcher in Hollywood, but all the folks working…
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Read More »The weather last night was perfect for Chelmsford’s pre-4th of July Country Fair. At least one hundred organizations it seemed staffed booths erected around the perimeter of the town common to promote their organizations and raise funds. With music from the band concert softly emanating from the center of the…
Read More »On this day July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress – meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring the freedom of the 13 colonies from Great Britain and its king. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July…
Read More »On August 31, 1837, an important man from the Greater Merrimack River Valley spoke to members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass. His address that day is considered by some to be ‘America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence.’ Here is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘The American…
Read More »No, that’s not really him, rather the picture above is a full size cut-out of President Barack Obama outside the Democratic Headquarters in Kennebunkport Maine. Let me tell you, Kennebunkport may be the summer residence of the the Bushs’ but the Democratic Town Committee in KBP is gearing up big…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. As Syria goes deeper into civil war (and may draw in Turkey) and Egypt’s first civilian president, Mohamed Morsi, calls for the release of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing plotter, “blind sheik” Omar Abdel-Rahman,…
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