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'Beyond Walden'; thrill of scandal; obscure arrests; fierce firefighters

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Photo by ROBERT THORSON Kettle lake and Mt. Chocorua, in New Hampshire. Such kettle ponds as Walden Pond, in Concord, Mass., are beloved features of New England. These souvenirs of the Ice Age have had much to do with......

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 Tags  Beyond Walden   Providence firefighters   Robert Thorson   Salvatore DiMasi   Walden Pond  

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Last Andrew Wyeth painting; mandate metastasis

4:39 PM Wed, Jun 03, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Andrew Wyeth's last painting can be found in the 25th anniversary edition of Island Journal, that gorgeous publication of the Island Institute, based in Rockland, Maine. He died Jan. 16. Wyeth (and his family) was of course deeply associated......

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 Tags  Andrew Wyeth   Edith Ajello   Island Institute   Island Journal  

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"Abstract Rhythm''

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"Red Pod II,'' wall treatment by Laura Pollaro, part of the "Abstract Rhythm'' show at Phillips Exeter Academy's Lamont Gallery, in Exeter, N.H., July 7-July 31. Phillips Exeter, one of America's biggest and richest prep schools (and often paired......

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 Tags  A Separate Peace   Lamont Gallery   Laura Pollaro   Phillips Exeter  

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Beautiful bridge to Maine

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photos and caption by William Morgan The World War Memorial Bridge linking Kittery, Maine and Portsmouth, N.H., was one of the the country's largest vertical lift bridges when it was dedicated in 1923; its nearly 300-foot lift span......

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 Tags  Kittery   Maine   Portsmouth Navy Yard   William Morgan   World War Memorial Bridge  

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A real border with Canada

5:12 PM Tue, Jun 02, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

With the imposition of much tighter border controls with Canada -- Americans must now have a passport to get back into America -- perhaps a new sense of adventure about Canada being a foreign country will arise in New......

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 Tags  border crossings   Canada   Derby Line   Graham Greene   Quebec   Vt. Stanstead  

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Dove and O'Keeffe at the Clark

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Arthur Dove, "Sunrise,'' 1924. Oil on panel, 18 1/4 x 20 7/8 in. (46.4 x 53 cm). Milwaukee Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. Edward R. Wehr [Milwaukee Art Museum (photo by John R. Glembin); Courtesy of and copyright The......

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 Tags  Arthur Dove   Clark Art Institute   Georgia O'Keeffe  

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From Detroit to Dracut? Nantucket sacrifice; in death, life

5:58 PM Mon, Jun 01, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Could New England actually make cars again, too, as it used to in such places as Framingham, Mass.? Maybe that Boston-Power Inc. plans to open a factory in Auburn, Mass., making batteries for hybrid and electric cars, will be......

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 Tags  Auburn   Boston-Power Inc.   Home & Hospice Care   Jean Lesieur   Local 1060   Mass.   Nantucket  

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Whale oil to trash gas; greedy M.L. King family

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Photo and caption by WILLIAM MORGAN This detail of the Ze-gen experimental gasification plant in New Bedford speaks of the potential of a new clean energy source for New England, while being an object of beauty in its own......

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 Tags  Martin Luther King Jr.   whale oil   William Morgan   Ze-gen  

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