The best American autobiographies

A recent edition of Bookmarks magazine (“For everyone who hasn’t read everything”) came into my possession. Motivated by the unexpected popularity in 2010 of Mark Twain’s “complete and unexpurgated autobiography”, released at Twain’s direction one hundred years after his death, Bookmarks suggests “some of the more interesting attempts by Americans…

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Tewksbury Sept 11, 10th Anniversary

As I watched the September 11th memorial ceremonies on Sunday morning, I couldn’t help thinking just how many people from the Merrimack Valley died that day. Tewksbury lost two residents on September 11, 2001, Peter Gay and Peter Hashem. A few years ago the town built a wonderful memorial to…

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