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6:36 PM Mon, Jun 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING No, this isn't a setup for a joke about taxpayers as state legislatures adjourn. It's SVF Foundation's Annual Visitors Day, June 6, 2009, in Newport, R.I. Now give those poor animals wetsuits! XXX Project......
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5:37 PM Fri, Jun 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch said he'd be willing to furlough himself to save the state money. But he emphasized he'd still come to work. "I would just come in (and) take the day without pay and be here,"......
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2:33 PM Fri, Jun 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by Jose Martinez "Origins,'' by Mark diSuvero, welcomes visitors to the Currier Museum of Art. The Currier Museum, in Manchester, N.H., is perhaps not what you'd expect in that old mill town, whose Amoskeag Mills complex, on......
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9:45 AM Fri, Jun 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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I highly recommend that everybody read CVS chief Thomas Ryan's piece in today's Boston Globe:......
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9:30 AM Fri, Jun 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Rhode Island legislature, at the command of public-employee unions, is about to pass legislation that may well soon bankrupt several Rhode Island communities. The legislation, H5762 and S0713, would force very generous teachers union contracts to be extended......
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5:53 PM Thu, Jun 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Joe's Pizza, '' oil on wood, by Mathew Matera. This is a pizza joint in Northampton, Mass., near the Connecticut River and in a region famous for small colleges -- but they no longer grow tobacco there. Mr. Matera's......
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5:09 PM Wed, Jun 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by DANA TARR Viennagram, a madcap post-apocalyptic pop muse-sick group, specializing in, among other things, cartoon violence. It will perform in festivities at Firehouse 13 on the evening of Friday, July 10. Firehouse 13, near downtown Providence,......
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4:35 PM Tue, Jun 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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''Frank Pierce'' (circa 1968), by James Fitzgerald (1899-1971), oil on canvas. This scene, of a Monhegan Island, Maine, fisherman, can be found in the Portland Museum of Art's "Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England'' show. XXX......
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8:09 PM Sun, Jun 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo and caption by William Morgan Brooklyn (settled 1703) used to one of the prettiest towns in the formerly unspoiled and mostly rural northeastern quadrant of Connecticut (Windham County accounts for less than 4 percent of the Nutmeg......
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10:56 AM Sat, Jun 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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From Ernest Hebert's Live Free or Die (Hanover, University Press of New England, 1990). "Center Darby Village was several miles away from the Route 21 highway turnoff. In contrast to the old cemetery, the grass on the common was......
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6:00 PM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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New England's cities should do more to bring greenery and open-air markets into their otherwise sterile open spaces created by ''urban renewal.'' This little market near Boston's South Station is the right idea. It's good to remind city dwellers......
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9:40 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Read this piece in Slate on why reading newspapers on newsprint is better than reading them on a screen. http://www.slate.com/id/2220793/ A representative of Delta Dental called me to deny the rumor I passed on here that Rhode Island Health Insurance......
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5:04 PM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Clarence Chatteron, "The Road to Oguinquit'' (circa 1940), at the Portland Museum of Art show "Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England.'' Sunlight on the New England coast as it shines on old buildings can be......
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6:34 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Painting by NANCY WHITCOMB Instead of dealing with Thursday's trauma in the construction chaos at the intersection of Routes 95 and 195, in Providence, stay home and play this game on the back porch. XXX J.D. Salinger's latest......
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5:05 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- "Time for a Change'' (3-2001), photo collage by PETER TYTLA (Peter Tytla, P.O. Box 43, East Lyme, Conn 06333; phone (860) 739-7105; petertytla@sbcglobal.net) This scene to me is a vivid tableau of some of the funny, sad, and,......
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9:03 AM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo and caption by William Morgan Race is always a hot-button issue in America. Yet, with the election of an African-American president, not to mention the reverent and elevated academic discussions of Rhode Island's role in the slave......
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6:25 PM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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I think that southern New Englanders are living through the longest stretch of cloudy weather in a century.... It's the perfect melding of economic and meteorological despair. June weddings? June funerals are more appropriate. Come to think of it,......
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4:53 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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This was passed on by my friends at the New England Journal of Higher Education. I'd like to attend the banquet at this academic event but how many losbter rolls can you consume in four days without suffering a......
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3:09 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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It appears from my view of the firefighters picketing outside the Rhode Island Convention Center (out my window!) that some distinguished members of the Providence Fire Department (though not residents of the city) have been driving taxpayer-owned Fire Department equipment......
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8:02 AM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Clarence Chatteron (U.S., 1880-1973), "Boating With Oliver, Ogunquit '' (1929), oil on canvas, Portland Museum of Art. Museum purchase with support from Roger and Katherine Woodman. This press release was sent to me by the beautiful Portland Museum......
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3:14 PM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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I give my friends in Local 799 of the International Association of Firefighters a lot of credit -- they really know how to bring national pressure to bear on their very local dispute with Providence Mayor David Cicilline. Even......
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8:12 AM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Upstairs at Margaret's,'' by Alanna Fagan, at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, in New Canaan, Conn. in a show running June 12-July 14. This lovely oil on linen by Milford, Conn.-based Fagan evokes to me a sense of the......
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5:14 PM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Maine is getting $709,000 in federal stimulus funds to replace old trolleys that provide seasonal service in the southern Maine coastal resort communities of York, Ogunquit, Wells, Kennebunk and Kennebunkport. Ah, but how nice it would be if these......
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8:33 AM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Cumulus,'' an oil painting in black and white by Jennifer Day, as part of her "Air and Ocean'' show at the Bromfield Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave., Boston (617) 451-3605. It's a great show to get New Englanders thinking of......
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6:02 PM Tue, Jun 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Residents of the small Maine town of Vassalboro have shown themselves open to entrepreneurial creativity. They voted to approve an adult-only businesses ordinance that would have presumably covered a coffee shop featuring topless waiters and waitresses that burned to......
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8:36 AM Tue, Jun 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Caption by WILLIAM MORGAN (who found the post card in a Bath, Maine, junk shop) World's fairs, despite all the hype that fuels them, almost always disappoint. The Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago celebrated 100 years......
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9:23 AM Mon, Jun 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING A summer place: At Elephant Rock Beach Club, in Westport, Mass. Elephant Rock is on Buzzards Bay, the warmest large body of salt water in New England, in the summer anyway. While water temperatures......
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6:53 PM Fri, Jun 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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4:39 PM Wed, Jun 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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4:21 PM Wed, Jun 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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"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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9:51 AM Wed, Jun 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- 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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5:12 PM Tue, Jun 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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9:49 AM Tue, Jun 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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5:58 PM Mon, Jun 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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