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July 2009 Archives
9:22 AM Thu, Jul 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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BY DONNA LORING (This is from the current issue of the New England Journal of Higher Education.) In 2001, I authored legislation that required all public schools in Maine to teach Maine Indian history. On June 14 of that......
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7:00 PM Wed, Jul 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Nancy Hill, Rose White (2008) oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches, at the Clark Gallery, in Lincoln, Mass. This is a tasty part of the "Flower Power II'' show, an eclectic group exhibition featuring work in all media......
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5:16 PM Tue, Jul 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Commentary and photo by WILLIAM MORGAN Remember all those handsome 19th-Century signposts that added to New England's quaint flavor? If they did not fall into disrepair, they were replaced by over-zealous and ever more aesthetically illiterate highway departments,......
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8:59 AM Fri, Jul 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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A University of Connecticut law professor, Richard Pomp, calls his student John Belanger very "energetic.'' Indeed, it would take a lot of energy to do what Mr Belanger is accused of: Helping to mastermind a $250-million-a-year marijuana-smuggling ring. XXX......
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6:51 PM Wed, Jul 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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The "greenest'' supermarket in America may be new Hannaford store in Augusta, Maine, which has the U.S. Green Building Council's highest standard -- a Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. The AP notes that much of......
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6:22 PM Tue, Jul 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photos (two are below) and commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN The buildings, furniture, and decorative art of the firm of Greene & Greene is the subject of an exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts that runs until mid-October. While......
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5:37 PM Tue, Jul 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING Even on a nice summer day at the Swiss Village, in Newport, R.I., death stalks us. XXX Now that Harvard Regius Professor of Celebrity Henry Louis Gates has been properly liberated from any charges......
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5:45 PM Mon, Jul 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Swimming in, or eating fish from, the almost landlocked western part of Long Island Sound has always seemed dubious to me. And its i "dead zone'' of low dissolved oxygen seems to be getting worse, 180 square miles last......
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7:33 AM Mon, Jul 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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It's resonant that Walter Cronkite should die almost on the anniversary of the "giant leap for mankind'' of the 1969 lunar landing. Cronkite had a kid's passion for the American space program -- a real cheerleader for it.......
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4:43 PM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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inline;"> ''Tokyo Canal, Houseboat,'' by Mario Cooper (watercolor). At the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, 84 Lyme St., Lyme, Conn; (www.lymeacademy.edu); (860) 434-5232. This picture is part of an exhibition of Mario Cooper's and Dale Meyers's works that runs through......
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6:01 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Massachusetts is considering a "global" payment system to replace the existing fee-for-service system that reimburses health-care providers for the costs of individual medical procedures. Bravo! About time that a state took a cold, hard look at the current fee......
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6:31 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Wreck of the D.T. Sheridan'' (circa 1949), by Rockwell Kent, oil on canvas, at the Portland Museum of Art. This painting reminded me of the cold stones that comprise most of Maine's ''beaches,'' and of Kent's brilliant (black and......
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9:28 AM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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From Jeremy McCarter's June 29 Newsweek piece, ''Reagan Was Wrong: To conservative Cassandra Henry Fairlie, Republicans sowed their present-day destruction from the start.'' {British journalist Henry} Fairlie's critique of American conservatism began with a GOP heresy: that by embracing......
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9:59 AM Sat, Jul 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo and caption by WILLIAM MORGAN Lumber was a big part of New England's early economy. We began by supplying the best trees for masts for the Royal Navy. There is still something in our genetic make-up that attracts......
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6:16 PM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Now at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Mass.: Morning Glories, Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century, by Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese, 1796-1858) One of a pair of six-panel folding screens: ink, color and gold on gilded paper, 5 ft.......
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1:05 PM Fri, Jul 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photos and commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN New Hampshire Welcome Center, Spaulding Turnpike (Rte 3), Hooksett, N.H. Summer! Time to head for the White Mountains or Lake Winnipesaukee. But first, one has to deal with this, perhaps the tackiest,......
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5:23 PM Thu, Jul 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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''Hosed 4,'' oil, oil bar, graphite on canvas, by Janet Lage (2009), at Eo Art Lab, Chester, Conn. (eoartlab.com). July 1-Aug. 2 This is one of the playful images in Connecticut artists Lage's "Hose Me'' show, celebrating, among other......
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6:54 PM Wed, Jul 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- "View of Norwich,'' oil painting by John Denison Crocker done around 1873. At the nifty Slater Memorial Museum, in Norwich, Conn. The eastern Connecticut mill town sure looked pretty back then, especially if you avoid thinking of the......
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5:43 PM Wed, Jul 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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--"Kennebunkport Tug,'' by John Wheatley, part of a show at the Providence Art Club scheduled for July 12-31. The presidential Bushes, the most prominent local rich summer people, use considerably sexier craft to move around that town's waters in......
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