That morning, officers were called to Peter Pan at 2 a.m. and found a man on the sidewalk with a stab wound to his arm. He had been assaulted elsewhere and called police from the bar, the only open business on the street at the time, McMahon said.
Primarily
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Tuesday I voted in the Super Tuesday Republican primary for President. I
cast my ballot for Ron Paul.
Here are the results of the primary in Massachusett...
Outdoor Blogger Round-up
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The Outdoor Adventure- Spring into Adventure Gear Giveaway Announcement The
Outdoor Adventure has been working together with My Life
Outdoors, Wilderness ...
There Once was a Man from Nantucket
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All right, get your minds out of the gutter. It’s not THAT limerick. It’s
these, first started in 1902 by the *Princeton Tiger*:
*There once was a man from...
R&R&I.
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Well it seems another winter break (or January of Jim as I like to call it)
has come and gone. This year it seems I didn't miss much in the way of
winter...
Day of First Nights
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Some Video from a family-friendly afternoon at Holyoke's First Night, Jr.
festivities at Heritage Park:
A feature of the park is the classic, transplanted ...
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
My focus is on Western Massachusetts. My postings are mostly of common images that folks might come across in their everyday journeys. Wall graffiti, lampposts, ticket booths, street scenes, wildlife, forests and discarded objects are regular themes.
I started blogging with a focus on the history of my family and how the places they have lived evolved over time. I am most interested in how the past and present collide and launching the reader into a place where memories of prior experiences and places mingle with their everyday lives. When I'm not aimlessly wandering about, I'm usually sitting around and taking up space on the news desk at The Republican in Springfield, Mass.
-- Bob Genest
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