New England Calling - 1949
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Take a tour of New England in this Esso Marketers travelogue from 1949 -
"New England Calling."
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Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author ...
Costa Rica 2016
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Welcome back to the Ice Cream Diaries, soon to be renamed ‘What Jim did in
January’ for my lack of posts the rest of the year. You may have been
wonde...
Find my latest updates at BirdsDowntown.com
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If it has seemed quiet on this blog since last June, well, that’s my
mistake — I migrated to a full website at BirdsDowntown.com last year and,
in the mids...
United States Post Office, Lee, MA - c1910
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United States Post Office, Lee, MA, c1910
Settled in 1760 and incorporated in 1777, the town of Lee is one of the
gems of the Berkshire hills.
In 1910,...
Paramount aka Hippodrome nee Paramount
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Having recently joined the Quaboag Hills Photography Club I was privy to a
photowalk they arranged at the old Paramount Theater, or Hippodrome as it
was ...
12 years ago
Off The Shelf: The Finest Hours by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman
From Booklist: In a 1952 nor’easter, the distress of two ships off Cape Cod initiated a dramatic Coast Guard operation recounted here by coauthors Tougias and Sherman. Both vessels were World War II surplus, cheaply built, unwisely kept in service, and broken in two by the storm. All four halves floated, for the moment, and the authors’ narrative accordingly tracks four separate search-and-rescue efforts that form the complete story. The most prominent, in the press at the time and in official honors conferred afterward, concerned one motorized lifeboat, a puny 36 feet long and manned by four men, dispatched to do battle with the maelstrom’s towering waves. This is the seascape of The Perfect Storm, and the authors do justice to the peril in a tight account of the action. Plotting the course of CG36500, the utilitarian name of the lifeboat captained by Bernie Webber (interviewed for this book), Tougias and Sherman reach their peak of tension in the sink-or-swim moments when mariners abandoned ship and chanced their lives on their rescuers’ skill and bravery. An excellent entry in the disaster-at-sea genre. --Gilbert Taylor
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