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Read More »Women Telephone Operators on Strike – April 20, 1919
While women were preferred by customers hearing that important question “Number please?” – the working conditions and wage for these women in the emerging communication business was far from preferential. With rules and standards more rigid than those for their sisters at the loom in the 1830s, the New England telephone operators…
Read More »Back from Baltimore
Yesterday I returned from a long weekend in Baltimore for that city’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Pratt Street Riot, the April 19, 1861 confrontation that cost the lives of Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Sumner Needham and Charles Taylor. The centerpiece of the Baltimore celebration was a parade…
Read More »Guardians of a Garden District: A Walk in Back Central
Monday being the stand-in observance for Patriots Day (April 19), and since the day was sunny even if windy, my wife and I took a walk through the Back Central neighborhood. We were pulled along for the first half by our enthusiastic Boston Terrier who could not have more enjoyed the field…
Read More »Details along French Street
By Tony Sampas
Read More »“A Friendly Reminder” by paul hudon
paul hudon sent along the following essay: Dear Mr. Antoine Furtive, We here at your neighborhood bank notice that your last three mandatory credit vouchers are yet unclaimed. MCVs are the result of fours years of study by There’s Blood Yet to Be Had from This Stone Foundation. Introduced just…
Read More »Lexington’s Captain John Parker
Yesterday I took a ride to Lexington, MA. I arrived shortly before the annual Patriot’s Day Parade and several hours after the re-enactment of the famous battle that took place on the Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, a battle recognized as the start of the American Revolution. In the…
Read More »UMass (Amherst) Football to Announce Upgrade to FBS
This article appears in today’s Springfield Republican – it might have some interest to area locals especially UMass Amherst alums: AMHERST – After decades of debate, and with some difficult questions still to be answered, the University of Massachusetts football program will make the move to the Football Bowl Subdivision.…
Read More »“Community Innovation in Lowell” Meeting – April 26, 2011
Received this information from Professor Bill Berkowitz, Dept. of Psychology at UMass/Lowell: We thought readers of the Richard Howe blog and friends would be interested in an upcoming meeting on Community Innovation in Lowell, to be held on Tuesday, April 26, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. in Coburn Hall, Room 205,…
Read More »For Perspective: The Milky Way, Time-Lapse Imagery
Click here to see photographer Terje Sorgjerd’s amazing views of the sky and earth from a mountain in Spain: The Mountain. I picked this up from AOL/Huffington Post.
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