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June 14, 2009 - June 20, 2009 Archives

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'The idea of New England'

10:56 AM Sat, Jun 20, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Center Darby Village   Ernest Hebert   Live Free or Die   Route 21  

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Fishing future; solar stealing; data farming

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  data-mining   salt-water recreational fishermen  

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Newspapers beat Kindle; Koller not going to Delta

9:40 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Chris Koller   Delta Dental   Kindle  

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Universitis; naked bikers; Pearl Harbor, but with warning

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- 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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 Tags  Endicott College   nude bikers   Vermont communes  

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Granite State's Greta Garbo

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- 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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 Tags  Fredrik Colting   J.D. Salinger  

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Peter Tytla's rural fantasies

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- "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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 Tags  Ethan Frome   Peter Tytla  

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Wickenden Street's racial throwbacks

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- 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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 Tags  Aunt Jemima   pickaninny   Wickenden Street  

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The joys of N.E. secession; but split R.I. in two!

6:25 PM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Joel Garreau   Novacadia   Republic of New England   The Nine Nations of North America   Vermont Republic  

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