stories: A sailor's morning on Cape Cod
- 08/10/13 10:22 AM
A sailor's morning on Cape Cod I've had the pleasure of sailing many of the weekends this summer. I'll go anytime, anywhere, and do any job on the boat. Just ask me. There's too much good to write it all out. Wet your whistle on this tidbit. Short enough for Vine, long enough to make you want to hoist the sails and go. IMO. This is the Wianno 25 I crewed on two Saturdays this summer. New England has one of the finest sailing seasons anywhere. I'm biased: I've been sailing here a long time. When you get here, find yourself … (8 comments)
stories: Duxbury Bay Maritime School Junior Olympics Regatta weekend
- 08/10/13 04:19 AM
Duxbury Bay Maritime School Junior Olympics Regatta Optis and 420s competed in the Duxbury Bay Maritime School Junior Olympics Regatta today and they'll go all day tomorrow, Sunday, as well. The videos show a few moments of the Captains' Meeting. Over seventy Int'l 420s and about fifty Optis. Look at all the young racers and parents!
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stories: Mayflower II returns to Plymouth today!
- 08/06/13 11:39 PM
The Mayflower II will be arriving back in Plymouth today! The partially restored Mayflower II will be leaving Fairhaven at 5:00 a.m. and arriving at the Cape Cod Canal around 9:00 a.m. The journey through the canal will take approximately 45 minutes and Mayflower II is expected to arrive on the high tide in Plymouth Harbor around 12:00 p.m. For the past seven months, Mayflower II has been undergoing extensive repairs in dry-dock, a restoration and preservation project that began this winter. The work will begin again this winter after the Museum closes for the season. Between now and 2020, Mayflower II must be … (5 comments)
stories: Carolyn McLaughlin Yovan's purple flower
- 08/02/13 10:01 AM
Carolyn McLaughlin Yovan's purple flower I have a friend I've never met. She spent time in Telluride with some friends of mine, but I never met her when she was there. She's been back lately . . . but after I left. I have been amazed at her paintings and, through the magic crystal ball of the internet, followed her life as it has unfolded over the past couple of years. Here is the culmination - to date, and in my opinion - of the evolution and trajectory of her work. Did the room grow around the blooming flower or … (3 comments)
stories: Bank of America does it again
- 08/01/13 02:32 AM
So here's a story. My new client had a loan with Bank of America that he paid for 18 years without a hitch. He went to modify the remaining principal two and a half years ago. He began paying BoA the modified amount, which was $600 lower than the original monthly payment, and made those payments for two years.
Then BoA sent him a notice saying his loan WASN'T modified. Of course, he has the paperwork to prove it was, and the payments to show a course of dealing. He's been fighting BoA for most of a year now. The … (9 comments)
stories: My grandmother, Erma "Jonnie" Fisk
- 07/20/13 11:46 AM
My grandmother, Erma "Jonnie" Fisk The Bird Lady This picture hangs in the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences in Plymouth, Massachusetts, an institution for which my grandmother was a founding board member. "Amah" to us, and "Jonnie" to her many friends around the world, was an ornithologist. When she told children what her work was called, and they would invariably respond, with a quizzical look, "An ornith . . . huh?", she would lean down and say, "A bird lady, honey, a bird lady." Her work with the Audobon Society included travels around the world. While working for the Nature Conservancy, she … (6 comments)
This is my favorite picture of me and my son, Grayson, who turned 15 recently. He was nine in this picture, and growing up fast. He is now 6'3" and is following his destiny by teaching at computer camp this summer near Boston. A great new world awaits him and his friends. It's a world unlike any we've ever known. It's a world that's unimaginable to anyone alive today. We will ride toward that tomorrow together. I love you, Gray. … (8 comments)
stories: This will be me tomorrow
- 07/10/13 11:03 AM
The boat is a Wianno 25. I'm foredeck, sailing from Hyannis to Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard.
Photo credit: facebook.com/Wianno.Senior.161
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Write 15 blog posts Unless hit by a lightning bolt, or perhaps a coup de foudre, I'll meet this mark on Monday, July 8, at the latest. I write a post a day, sometimes more. Write 100 comments with 20 of them being the first comment I write more than 300 comments a month. Here it is July 6 and I've left over 60 comments, with ten or twelve first comments. Wriet 5 Product Reviews Done. Exercise I work out every morning and sometimes at night if I haven't done anything else … (8 comments)
For more than 20 years, my father was an editorial writer for the New York Times. He covered the U.S. Supreme Court and the New York courts, primarily. This Independence Day, he sent around this copy of his editorial from 26 years ago, when the Times, at my father's behest, reprinted the text of the Constitution, along with its customary printing of the Declaration of Independence. Here, slightly edited, is his introductory email to today's celebrants, followed by the editorial itself. The full text of the U.S. Constitution may … (19 comments)
I grew up looking out the third-floor window in the front. The one with the Juliet balcony. It wasn't hard to scramble out onto the roof, sometimes with a guitar. The first picture below shows the view from my window. I seem to remember that I could see more of the National Cathedral. Perhaps its the photo, or perhaps the houses grew up, too.
The interior looks remarkably similar to the way my parents decorated it 40 years ago, even though there have been several owners … (3 comments)
stories: Relay for Life - Walk Around the Clock
- 06/21/13 06:20 AM
2013 Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth Friday, June 21, 2013, 3:00 p.m. Plymouth South High School 490 Long Pond Road, Plymouth
Cancer survivors, caregivers and anyone interested in winning the war on cancer are invited to attend the Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth at Plymouth South High School from 3 p.m. this Friday, June 21, until 8:30 Saturday morning. This all-night “walk around the clock” to raise awareness and funds to stop cancer will include many inspirational activities.Friday, the nonstop walking begins at 3, while the official opening ceremony will be held at 6 p.m., followed by survivors’ and caregivers’ laps around … (6 comments)
stories: What Do You Say, Dear?
- 06/17/13 11:30 AM
What Do You Say, Dear? A Book of Manners for All Occasions By Maurice Sendak A Handbook of Etiquette for Young Ladies and Gentlemen to be used as a Guide for Everyday Social Behavior
You are downtown and there is a gentleman giving baby elephants to people. You want to take one home because you have always wanted a baby elephant, but first the gentleman introduces you to each other. What do you say, dear? How do you do? You are picking dandelions and columbines outside the castle. Suddenly a fierce dragon appears and blows red smoke at you, … (2 comments)
After being dominated for more than a period and a half, the Boston Bruins turned the tables on the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals Saturday night. The Bruins controlled most of the game’s final 40 minutes, and Daniel Paille’s overtime goal gave them a 2-1 victory that evened the series at one game apiece. The Blackhawks completely dominated the Bruins in the first 34 minutes, with 23 shots on goal to Boston’s 6. Counting shots that were blocked or missed the net, Chicago attempted 46 shots to Boston’s 8. But suddenly, at about the … (0 comments)
stories: Fort Desperate - Duxbury's role in the Civil War
- 06/16/13 09:06 AM
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Duxbury Rural & Historical Society has created a blog chronicling Duxbury's soldiers' and civilians' experiences.
Today's post, for June 14, begins: The second Union assault on Port Hudson, Louisiana took place 150 years ago today on June 14, 1863. It was, in hindsight, a hopeless and reckless assault for those Federal troops that attacked the forts and trenches outside one of the last Confederate strongholds on the Mississippi River. Among those Union troops were a significant number of Duxbury men. . . . Read more of this and other fascinating … (5 comments)
stories: Tangible proof
- 06/13/13 01:27 PM
Today I got a bit of tangible proof -- solid, external feedback -- that my efforts to show the value I bring to other peoples' lives are paying off. One of my core beliefs is that to be successful at what I do, I need to know more about what I am doing for my clients than my competition does, and I need to show my clients that I am more valuable to them today than I was yesterday. One man whom I hold in very high esteem because of the personal obstacles that he overcame on his way to having … (11 comments)
I've just gone over 100,000 points! I feel like I've learned a lot this year on Active Rain. I'm so grateful for both the new friendships and the AR platform for providing support, guidance and a medium for self-expression and marketing. Reading everything on AR has helped me to focus on what has worked for other people and I hope that I am honing my ability to produce consumer-friendly and SEO-friendly posts on topics that will help me build the business I want. There's plenty of content I want to post on my way to 250,000 points!
18 pairs of Piping Plovers have decided to make Duxbury Beach their home for the summer. Town government being what it is, the announcement that the birds' presence triggered state and Federal protection laws that are intended to limit human interaction with and damage to the Plovers and their habitat was handled in an inelegant, insensitive and blunderingly blunt fashion. Predictably, closing the beach for an indefinite time has created a human backlash of thunderstorm proportions. As the grandson of the woman who invented the Cape Cod … (3 comments)
stories: Onement VI
- 05/29/13 08:43 AM
Two weeks ago, six bidders at Sotheby's bid to purchase Barnett Newman’s 1953 abstract painting, Onement VI. The winner bought the painting for $43.8 million, a record price for the artist’s work at auction. The current record price known to have been paid for any painting is more than $250 million, in 2011, for The Card Players by Paul Cézanne. … (12 comments)
stories: The Tree of Knowledge
- 05/15/13 07:12 AM
The Tree of Knowledge monument, at a road intersection in Duxbury, commemorates the post riders meeting place in our town. Below what's legible, it says, "Duxbury Tricentenary 1937". That is, the monument was erected on the occasion of Duxbury's 300th birthday, now more than 75 years ago.
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A sailor's morning on Cape Cod I've had the pleasure of sailing many of the weekends this summer. I'll go anytime, anywhere, and do any job on the boat. Just ask me. There's too much good to write it all out. Wet your whistle on this tidbit. Short enough for Vine, long enough to make you want to hoist the sails and go. IMO.
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