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Robert Whitcomb: August 2009 Archives
9:11 AM Sat, Aug 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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6:42 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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1:55 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- 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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5:23 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING Transient housing at Horseneck Beach, Westport, Mass., on the semi-tropical (for New England) Buzzards Bay.......
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4:54 PM Thu, Aug 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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''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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5:11 PM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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12:12 PM Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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11:12 AM Sun, Aug 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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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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6:24 PM Thu, Aug 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank is capable of obnoxiousness but also of refreshing truth-telling, such as when he lashed out at a woman at a meeting in Dartmouth, Mass., on health care. The protester held a poster showing President Obama with......
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5:16 PM Thu, Aug 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo and caption by WILLIAM MORGAN This small brass marker in a Providence sidewalk reminds us of one of the most successful government stimulus packages of all time. Well-built concrete sidewalks were laid or repaired and more than......
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9:47 AM Thu, Aug 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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For an entertaining read: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20090819_8739.php......
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5:37 PM Tue, Aug 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Good news: Claremont, N.H.'s Eagle Times, which was shut down recently, has attracted two potential buyers and may reopen. The locals, who have found that a Web site is not enough for a real community, are very happy that......
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6:04 PM Mon, Aug 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo and comment by CHARLES PINNING Bike Hanging, South Water and Point Streets, Providence. In a grim reminder that the auto industry had not backpedaled on its historically dirty tactics to the gain the upper hand over other......
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5:56 PM Mon, Aug 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Yet more depraved fooling with Mother Nature. A University of Vermont researcher, Timothy Perkins, of UVM's Proctor Maple Research Center, has come up with a devilish device to keep maple trees oozing sap for up to three weeks more......
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9:50 AM Sat, Aug 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By WALTER BROOKS (Mr. Brooks is the editor of Cape Cod Today, an online newspaper. He sent this piece, which first ran in Cape Cod Today, on to me the other day.) HYANNIS There is a new entry into......
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4:55 PM Thu, Aug 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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''Benneteau 46,'' a photo by Massachusetts artist Michael Hart. It's part of a show he's having jointly with Peggy Roth Major and Maida Antigua at the South Shore Conservatory, in Hingham, from Aug. 16 through October. It's nice how......
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5:17 PM Tue, Aug 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Even by the standards of today's 24/7 Web-fueled news coverage, the lies in the health-care debate take the cake. I'm waiting for Medicare recipients to give back the public money they get from their own version of "socialized medicine.''......
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9:25 AM Fri, Aug 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo and commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN Wellfleet is one of the special places on Cape Cod, halfway between the preppy pastels and tennis courts of Chatham and the in-your-face public displays of gay affection in Provincetown. We think of......
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