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Blogging about places
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New Dormitories - Here are a few pics I took of the new dorms at UMass, during construction in 2022 and the same location this morning. The site used to be a pa...
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A Tragic Toast to Christmas - wood alcohol deaths of 1919 in Chicopee, Mass. - More than 100 people died of a companionable drink in several towns and cities in New England on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1919, nearly half of th...
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Christmas Eve Memories - I’m sitting here relaxing with a tasty holiday beverage after a hectic holiday week at the scoop shop. It’s Christmas Eve, and while all of my immediate...1 year ago
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Sawyer MINI Water Filtration System. Does it really work? - The Sawyer MINI Water Filter is a versatile and lightweight water filtration system that is perfect for camping, travel, and everyday use. The MINI attac...1 year ago
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Find my latest updates at BirdsDowntown.com - 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...10 years ago
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Paramount aka Hippodrome nee Paramount - 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 k...
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Westfield's Municipal Building Gets a Facelift - [image: state_normal_school_04] A century and a score since its dedication as a State Normal School on June 21, 1892, the building that has housed the city ...
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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
A collision of memories, time and space
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- Our focus is on Western Massachusetts. Our 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. We started blogging with a focus on the history of our families and how the places they have lived evolved over time. We are 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. -- Bob Genest
Roosevelt's Tree Army
"We can take it"
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