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October 4, 2009 - October 10, 2009 Archives

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Chappaquiddick: 'It was all a coverup'

11:23 PM Sat, Oct 10, 2009 | | Comments (4)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Edward Kennedy   Left to Die   Les Leland   Mary Jo Kopechne  

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Faculty meeting

swam.jpg 9:58 AM Sat, Oct 10, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"Water Flower'' (oil on board), by Nancy S. Whitcomb URI School of Oceanography faculty meeting?......

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 Tags  Nancy S. Whitcomb   URI School of Oceanography  

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William Morgan: Quiet Finns in New England

finn.jpg 5:13 PM Fri, Oct 09, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Andrew Wyeth   Christina Olson   Finnish Congregational Church   Gus Hall  

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Too late for venison

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Charles Pinning; the Koch brothers  

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Falling into paradox

4:51 PM Thu, Oct 08, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"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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 Tags  Charles Parsons   Providence Art Club  

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Take me into the Art Club

baseball.jpg 4:31 PM Thu, Oct 08, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"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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 Tags  Christine McIntyre-Hannon   Providence Art Club  

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The name of the Rose

drive.jpg 6:10 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- 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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 Tags  Dana Schultz   Rose Art Musum  

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Mass still alluring; monster museum for Portland

5:59 PM Tue, Oct 06, 2009 | | Comments (4)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  International Cryptozoology Museum   Massachusetts immigrants   Thomas H. Lee Partners  

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Seattle Times says papers should be locally owned

11:13 AM Mon, Oct 05, 2009 | | Comments (4)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Minneapolis Star Tribune   Portland Press Herald   Seattle Times  

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