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In today’s New York Times “The Opinion Pages” – Harold Holzer reminds us that in that simmering time after the Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, after the Baltimore Riots of April 18-19, 1861, after Lincoln ordered a naval blockade of Southern ports and after his call…
Read More »IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate…
Read More »Growing up, I often heard the phrase “knee-high by the Fourth of July” when adults talked about the summer prospects for native corn. Yesterday I walked up and down the narrow streets of the Back Central neighborhood between Central and Lawrence streets, which I like to call “The Garden District.”…
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Read More »Read the boston.com bulletin about four Red Sox teammates making the American League All Star Team: Ortiz, Gonzalez, Ellsbury, and Beckett. David Ortiz (dh) and Adrian Gonzalez (1b) made the starting line-up.
Read More »The Los Angeles Times today has an article by Michael Hiltzik on its Business pages about BMW closing an auto parts distribution center in Ontorio, Calif. The reporter effectively puts this action in perspective of the national and global economies and bottom-line financial decisionmaking. Read the article here, which I picked up on…
Read More »Guy Lefebvre’s Lowell Gallery is offering for sale for $35 a limited-edition print of a prose sketch about the Ladd & Whitney Monument that he invited me to write on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. The broadside combines the writing and a vintage…
Read More »In a cnn.com report, President Clinton speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado analyzes the current political moment and forecasts reelection for President Obama, succinctly making the case for why the country needs his policies and why he deserves to win. Read the cnn.com report here.
Read More »“After” is a book of letters in the form of poems that poignantly describes the author’s life and experiences as a child before, during and after the Khmer Rouge. It traces the author’s journey out of Cambodia to the United States and the experiences he had thereafter, through loss of…
Read More »There’s an item on boston.com today with video and a long article (the article is more informative) with questions and answers about touring Boston. As someone who has dealt with cultural tourism for a long time, I was interested in the answers people gave about what they did, what they…
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