http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/ en Copyright 2009 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:05:14 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss -- 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,... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/07/-welcome-ashlan.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/07/-welcome-ashlan.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:05:14 -0500 ''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... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/07/post-8.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/07/post-8.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:23:57 -0500 -- "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... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/07/----view-of-nor.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/07/----view-of-nor.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:54:39 -0500 --"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... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/07/buzzards-bay-sa.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/07/buzzards-bay-sa.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:43:23 -0500 -- Photo by CHARLES PINNING No, this isn't a setup for a joke about taxpayers as state legislatures adjourn. It's SVF Foundation's Annual Visitors Day, June 6, 2009, in Newport, R.I. Now give those poor animals wetsuits! XXX Project... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/clothesline-cri.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/clothesline-cri.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:36:31 -0500 New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch said he'd be willing to furlough himself to save the state money. But he emphasized he'd still come to work. "I would just come in (and) take the day without pay and be here,"... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/governors-furlo.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/governors-furlo.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:37:07 -0500 -- Photo by Jose Martinez "Origins,'' by Mark diSuvero, welcomes visitors to the Currier Museum of Art. The Currier Museum, in Manchester, N.H., is perhaps not what you'd expect in that old mill town, whose Amoskeag Mills complex, on... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/spotlight-new-e.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/spotlight-new-e.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:33:31 -0500 I highly recommend that everybody read CVS chief Thomas Ryan's piece in today's Boston Globe:... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/cvs-chiefs-fine.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/cvs-chiefs-fine.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:45:47 -0500 The Rhode Island legislature, at the command of public-employee unions, is about to pass legislation that may well soon bankrupt several Rhode Island communities. The legislation, H5762 and S0713, would force very generous teachers union contracts to be extended... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/bankrupting-leg.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/bankrupting-leg.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:30:04 -0500 "Joe's Pizza, '' oil on wood, by Mathew Matera. This is a pizza joint in Northampton, Mass., near the Connecticut River and in a region famous for small colleges -- but they no longer grow tobacco there. Mr. Matera's... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/booze----and-th.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/booze----and-th.html Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:53:16 -0500 -- Photo by DANA TARR Viennagram, a madcap post-apocalyptic pop muse-sick group, specializing in, among other things, cartoon violence. It will perform in festivities at Firehouse 13 on the evening of Friday, July 10. Firehouse 13, near downtown Providence,... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/-viennagram.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/-viennagram.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:09:33 -0500 ''Frank Pierce'' (circa 1968), by James Fitzgerald (1899-1971), oil on canvas. This scene, of a Monhegan Island, Maine, fisherman, can be found in the Portland Museum of Art's "Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England'' show. XXX... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/sector-fishing.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/sector-fishing.html Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:35:59 -0500 -- Photo and caption by William Morgan Brooklyn (settled 1703) used to one of the prettiest towns in the formerly unspoiled and mostly rural northeastern quadrant of Connecticut (Windham County accounts for less than 4 percent of the Nutmeg... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/the-rape-of-nor.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/the-rape-of-nor.html Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:09:12 -0500 From Ernest Hebert's Live Free or Die (Hanover, University Press of New England, 1990). "Center Darby Village was several miles away from the Route 21 highway turnoff. In contrast to the old cemetery, the grass on the common was... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/the-idea-of-new.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/the-idea-of-new.html Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:56:02 -0500 New England's cities should do more to bring greenery and open-air markets into their otherwise sterile open spaces created by ''urban renewal.'' This little market near Boston's South Station is the right idea. It's good to remind city dwellers... http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/fishing-future.html http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com/2009/06/fishing-future.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:00:45 -0500