Register To ParticipateAren’t we lucky
Trying to explain to someone from Eastern Mass., a few weeks ago, where exactly I work, I said: “Draw a line from Worcester to Marlborough, then to Fitchburg, and back to Worcester. Right in the middle of that triangle, that’s Clinton and Lancaster.”
Right in the middle of three casinos, if all the plans on the [...]
Midnight oil at MassHighway!
Here I was, wrapping up another edition of the Times & Courier late Tuesday night (honestly, it’s nearly midnight, and I should be on the road by now), when what should come over the e-mail transom but this:
MASSHIGHWAY ANNOUNCES HIGHWAY HOTLINE
People Encouraged to Utilize #321 System to Identify Locations of [...]
Welcome back, Potter
Saw that somewhere as a headline and guffawed. I always thought it would make a great Saturday Night Live skit — Harry Potter, 30, trying to school teenage John Travolta in wizardry at a run-down inner-city school … Sweathogwarts. Horschak as Weasley. Guaranteed knee-slapper. Remember, you heard it here first (although for all I know, [...]
Cowboy Action Shooting
I sauntered on over to Harvard to the Harvard Sportsmen’s Association last weekend for the Cowboy Action Shooting Championships for Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. What is Cowboy Action Shooting you ask? Well, remember when you were a kid and you liked to play cowboy — don the hat and trusty Colt revolver? Well, apparently, [...]
Echoes of “the shot heard ’round the world”
Block out the cars, the tourists with cameras and the occasional plane flying overhead and just for a moment, you might imagine you were there that fateful day when a single musket shot turned a colonial frontier into the most powerful nation in the world.
OK, the United State’s road through history was just a little [...]
Way to go Idaho
OK, I’ve been a bit lax the past week with this blog. I have an excuse, though. I discovered a little known thing called a “vacation.” Very nice, I encourage you to try one.
In another life I was a high school history teacher in Caldwell, Idaho. I took the job right out of college and [...]
Get ready for time travel!
Yep, it’s that time of the year again, time to play time traveler and turn those clocks ahead. And if it seems awful early this year, you’re right. The federal goverment has added a month to Daylight-saving time this year, kicking it off tomorrow morning at 2 a.m. instead of in April. Why? Well, it’s [...]
