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October 2009 Archives
12:43 PM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by GRAHAM NEWHALL You'd be alarmed too if you were an old mill building in Providence whose renovation into pricey lofts was stopped by the credit crunch and recession.......
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12:11 PM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING Giving up on October in Providence.......
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9:26 AM Wed, Oct 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman's opposition to the "public option'' in the health-reform program couldn't be at all connected to the fact that he's a long-term water boy for the insurance industry, much of which is based in Connecticut, could......
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6:20 PM Tue, Oct 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Mt. Monadnock, in southwest New Hampshire, in a Novemberish painting done about 1900 by Williiam Preston Phelps. The peak is only 3,165 feet high but that's higher than any mountain nearby, and it rises semi-dramatically 2,000 feet from the......
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5:01 PM Tue, Oct 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Mohegan Sun, the huge (but not as huge as Foxwoods) casino in eastern Connecticut, which, like many casinos, has been hard hit by the recession, is, like many a supermarket chain, pushing for more customers. When your profit margin......
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9:58 AM Sun, Oct 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Dear readers: We're resending this to correct Mr. Bass's reference to an FDR landslide victory. It was 1936, not 1944. (Thonmas E. Dewey did better than Alf Landon!) Run with permission from The Ripon Forum By CHARLES F. BASS......
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5:44 PM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Even in New England's more remote spots it's possible to bring in fine new jobs. It depends on having a capable, hard-working workforce and honest and competent state and local government. Consider that AnC Bio VT, a Korean outfit, will......
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11:38 AM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Cuna Woman,'' from Cary Wolinksy's striking upcoming show at the South Short Art Center, in Cohasset, Mass. Mr. Wolinsky is famed for his many photographs from around the world done for The National Geographic Magazine. His show, "The Fiber......
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11:03 AM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING Beached rock whale on the shore of the Sakonnet River, in Little Compton, R.I.......
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10:52 AM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Correction: The photo of the woman under the headline "Swimming in the Sahara,'' which ran for several days, was not by Cary Wolinsky, who will soon have a show at the South Shore Art Center.......
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6:25 PM Thu, Oct 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Those old home movies, even interrupted by melting film and screaming kids, were highpoints of family life for decades before videos -- and a sometimes melancholy measure of the passage of the years -- new babies and disappearing oldsters. Bathing......
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3:50 PM Tue, Oct 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Commentary and Photos by WILLIAM MORGAN The Harrisville General Store is not the way I remember it from a summer spent in the small village almost 25 years ago. Then, it was a typical rural northern New England general......
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6:05 PM Mon, Oct 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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West Falmouth Harbor soon before the recent storm. Cape Cod (and the Vineyard and Nantucket), with its mild, oceanic climate and its many oak, pine and cedar trees, stays green a lot longer than the rest of New England.......
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6:11 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Once again, people in a university community have shown themselves impressively fearful of what they, above all, are supposed to be defending -- free inquiry and discussion. Student protests have prompted a Harvard University group to fearfully withdraw an invitation......
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5:52 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Antiques (humans, furniture and so on) are a big thing in New England's sense of itself. Here's a fun, no- holds-barred and eccentric look at the world they inhabit: Maryalice Huggins's Aesop's Mirror: A Love Story. (She is also......
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4:32 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Slater Mill, the National Historic Site on the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, R.I., is seeking an executive director to run this monument to the Industrial Revolution, which helped transform New England into a global economic powerhouse. What an exciting......
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4:24 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo and commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN The angel stands on a Saturday on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, across the street from Harvard Yard. No explanation, only silence and complete lack of movement. Until someone deposits a coin or a......
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4:33 PM Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- "Tidal Culture Part II,'' part of a video projection in Deborah Wing-Sproul's evocative show "Water, Algae, Ice" at the Housatonic Museum of Art, in Bridgeport, Nov. 5- Dec. 20......
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4:23 PM Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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The AP reports that officials in fancy Stonington , Conn., officials say a local couple doesn't have to take down a 100-square-foot sign with a giant "F" and "U." The sign is apparently free speech, directed at neighbors they've......
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1:38 PM Tue, Oct 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by BOB BREIDENBACH, Providence Journal Indian Summer Love does not think to rise up More so than does the sea; The sun the moon Shadows at noon Or that curious part of me. Instead it just appears......
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11:23 PM Sat, Oct 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Les Leland, foreman of the grand jury that looked into the death on Chappaquiddick of Mary Jo Kopechne, who died in Sen. Edward Kennedy's car after he drove it off a bridge in 1969, alleges in a new book......
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9:58 AM Sat, Oct 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Water Flower'' (oil on board), by Nancy S. Whitcomb URI School of Oceanography faculty meeting?......
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5:13 PM Fri, Oct 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Commentary and photograph by WILLIAM MORGAN When one thinks of the contribution immigrants made to America, one rarely thinks about the Finns. (Finns tend to be a rather quiet people, strenuously avoiding the limelight.) Finns, as colonists in New......
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5:49 PM Thu, Oct 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo and comment by CHARLES PINNING Avenue Trophee, aka Hudson Street, west side of Providence 02909 Foreclosureville, USA, where the Fire Department emergency van is the primary-care provider.......
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4:51 PM Thu, Oct 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Crystal Lake" (oil), by CHARLES PARSONS At the Providence Art Club Members' Exhibition, through Oct. 23. XXX Russell Baker once called autumn "The American Season,'' evoking the energy from bright, crisp days. It is certainly the season most associated......
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4:31 PM Thu, Oct 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Our Game'' (acrylic on board), by Christine McIntyre-Hannon. This is but one beauty among many at the Providence Art Club's current and boffo members' exhibition, which runs through Oct. 23. This is a terrific show for people looking for......
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6:10 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Dana Schultz, "How We Drive'' (2007). Oil on canvas. As if to shout out that it won't sell its collection after all, despite the financial meltdown and general and losing a bundle to Bernie Madoff in particular, Brandeis's......
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5:59 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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That Massachusetts's immigrant population grew 2.5 percent last year (according to the U.S. Census Bureau), even with the financial meltdown, demonstrates that the Bay State still has lots of economic dynamism, fueled by its technology and, yes, financial sectors.......
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11:13 AM Mon, Oct 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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Interesting edit from the local-family-controlled Seattle Times (which recently sold three Maine papers, including the Portland Press Herald, to a local investment group): BC-NEWSPAPERS-EDITORIAL:SE -- op-ed (350 words) A plan for the nation's newspapers McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) The......
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6:32 PM Fri, Oct 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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Some environmental groups have released a report saying that Acadia National Park is deeply threatened by climate change, with rising sea levels and worsening storms. Maybe, in the long run, there's something to it (unless manmade warning is simply......
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4:44 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo and Commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN It seemed pretentious to call it an estate sale: the remnants of 65 years of marriage in a two-family frame house in Pawtucket. Mom, long widowed, is 91 and has moved to a......
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4:36 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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This sets a fine example: Behind the the Mountain View Grand Resort, in Whitefield, N.H., is now a 121-foot-high wind turbine tower, which will generate up to half of the White Mountain establishment's electricity. Rather than worrying that the......
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