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August 23, 2009 - August 29, 2009 Archives

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A letter: Edward Kennedy and Daniel Webster

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

This 1996 letter to Providence insurance executive and civic activist Lorne Adrain about an Adrain book project shows both the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's interesting and rather old-fashioned handwriting and his sense of the weight of history, in citing......

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 Tags  Edward Kennedy   JFK   Lorne Adrain   Profiles in Courage  

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No bloody shirt in Peterborough

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Commentary and photo by WILLIAM MORGAN Standing sentinel above the town of Peterborough, N.H., is this poignant reminder of the loss of 45 people from one small New England town in the Civil War. Made famous by Thornton Wilder......

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 Tags  Beech Hill Farm   Indian pudding   N.H.   Our Town   Peterborough   Twombley's Inn  

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Ignoring the Arcade

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo by Chris Tompkins Surely the managers of the gloriously monumental and dignified Providence Arcade, built in 1828, and the oldest shopping mall still standing in the U.S., could set a better example than leaving grafitti on its......

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 Tags  Chris Tompkins   Providence Arcade  

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A summer place

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING Transient housing at Horseneck Beach, Westport, Mass., on the semi-tropical (for New England) Buzzards Bay.......

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 Tags  Horseneck Beach   Mass.   Westport  

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Kennedy when less charming; Vermont governors; wet leaves

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

''Powder Point,'' by Michael Hart, in the "Beyond Our Eyes'' show at the South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, Mass. (781) 749-7566. Hard to make gray more beautiful than this scene, shot near one of fancy, gray-shingled Duxbury, Mass.'s most......

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 Tags  Bernie Sanders   Cohasset   Congressman Joe Kennedy   Duxbury   Edward Kennedy   Jim Douglas   Mass.   Michael Hart   Powder Point   South Shore Conservancy  

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Spoon out some of this

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

No, this not a seafood stew at an overpriced Boston restaurant but Kelly Jean Ohl's "Bounty 2,'' a ceramic structure in her Sept. 2-27 show (called "Stand in Line'') at the Eo Art Lab, in Chester, Conn. Exotic, erotic......

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 Tags  Eo Art Lab   Kelly Jean Ohl  

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The architecture of divorce, Vermont-style

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Comments by WILLIAM MORGAN, photo by JONATHAN BELL With a gritty 19th-Century downtown squashed between steep hills and the Connecticut River, Brattleboro, Vt., is one of those progressive New England towns that seems to have its own foreign policy--a......

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 Tags  Brattleboro   Jonathan Bell   Princeton   Vt.  

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The awful wonders of Willowbend

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Paul Fireman's relentless, indeed desperate shilling to get people to buy into the awful Willowbend Country Club, in Mashpee, Mass., reminds me of all that has so ravaged the Cape and indeed America -- tasteless, manic, selfish materialism, waste,......

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 Tags  Cape Wind   Paul Fireman   Willowbend Country Club  

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