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High tech in the boonies

5:44 PM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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Cary Wolinsky show

11:38 AM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"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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Charles Pinning: A whale of a rock

11:03 AM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
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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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Correction

10:52 AM Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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Home Movie Day!

6:25 PM Thu, Oct 22, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Aldrich House   Home Movie Day   Nelson Aldrich   Rhode Island Historical Society  

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Willam Morgan: Trying to maintain an old rural mill village

3:50 PM Tue, Oct 20, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

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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 Tags  Harrisville   Harrisville Designs   Historic Harrisville   N.H.  

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Florida of New England

6:05 PM Mon, Oct 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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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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