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June 7, 2009 - June 13, 2009 Archives

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Your rolls at Lobster College; college decisions in recession

4:53 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Lobster Institute   Maguire Associates  

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Public vehicles, private dispute

3:09 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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"Call of the Coast''

chatterton.jpg 8:02 AM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- 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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 Tags  "Call of the Coast   Conn.   Florence Griswold Museum   Old Lyme   Portland Museum of Art   Robert Whitcomb  

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Local 799 goes national!

3:14 PM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  firefighters   Local 799   Michael Morse   Rescuing Providence  

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Ambiguous interiors; "take the money and run''; reopen GM plant

upstairs.JPG 8:12 AM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"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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 Tags  Alanna Fagan   Framingham   Moral Rearmament   New Canaan   Silvermine Guild Arts Center   The Telluride Promise   W. Edward Massey  

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Summer trolleys; life in New Canaan; reporters email Sulzberger

bluewater.jpg 5:14 PM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Bill Ruger   Elm Street Books   Fairfield   New Canaan   Ogunquit   Roberta Berg   Silvermine   Trolleys  

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'Air and Ocean'

cumulus.jpg 8:33 AM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"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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 Tags  Bromfield Gallery   Jennifer Day  

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Maine topless; more college hotels; Vermont doctors

6:02 PM Tue, Jun 09, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Beans of Egypt   Carolyn Chute   Lowell National Historical Park   Maine   pharmaceutical companies   Vassalboro   Vermont ban  

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Mussolini Modern for a Mainer

italian.jpg 8:36 AM Tue, Jun 09, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- 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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 Tags  Century of Progress   Chicago   Fascisti   Living Babies in Incubators   Maine   Rockland   Roscoe Dobbins   World's Fair  

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A club on the right bay

girly.jpg 9:23 AM Mon, Jun 08, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- 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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 Tags  Buzzards Bay   Elephant Rock Beach Club   Maine Coast   Mass.   Westport  

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