There are 90 opportunities to be amazed, beguiled and simply awestruck when entering the Marion Art Center now through February 10. Why? Because the Members Winter Show is now on exhibit. We took a sneak peak on Saturday, before the show officially opened and were gob smacked immediately by the variety of media […] Read more »
Do you ever wish you could go back in time? I do. I’d choose to go back to high school. Good old, Old Rochester Regional High. High school in general has gotten a bad rap. Many people hated their time in high school. My wife is one of them. “Those were the […] Read more »
Robert Burns first wrote the song “Auld Lang Syne” in the year 1788, based upon several older folk songs that were intended to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. The song can mark the end of a funeral service or a graduation ceremony. It can […] Read more »
For nearly as long as humans have attempted to communicate via the written word, libraries or repositories of writings have been in existence. Consider religious scripture stored in amphoras deep within caves such as the Dead Sea Scrolls or Rome’s first library, opened roughly around 114 A.D. by Emperor Trajan. While these early […] Read more »
As the winter season depends, and the parade of holidays continues, many people find themselves in a more charitable frame of mind. Nothing puts us in the mood for helping others than short days, long nights and strings of lights glinting from nearby houses. But this year, among the usual patter of coat drives […] Read more »
I received four books this past Christmas. They are sitting on the table next to my recliner, next to the two unfinished ones I received the previous Christmas. Okay, so, I’m a slow reader. I like to read but after 20 minutes, I am sound asleep. Zonked. Out like a light. I […] Read more »
Between Christmas and New Year’s Day is a week I once eagerly awaited. More than December 25, more than January 1, the days in the middle were gifts onto themselves. When I look at the photographs from that period of time, I can remember whole days spent in the pursuit of nothing more than […] Read more »
The old saying goes that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but George Mendes has taken the concept far beyond the potential usefulness of another person’s discarded item. Scheduled to retire on January 6 from his full-time job as a trash collector in Mattapoisett, Mendes has turned his life’s work into a […] Read more »
A Christmas tradition galloped on when intrepid swimmers descended on Mattapoisett Town Beach, showing support for a local facility that brings joy to those with cognitive issues – Helping Hands and Hooves. For 19 consecutive years, barring one due to COVID-19, Julie Craig and her team from Helping Hands and Hooves have held a […] Read more »
A New England lighthouse close call with lasting drama was not about a ship but instead about an airplane and its pilot playing Santa Claus. The incident happened in 1929 just before Christmas when pilot William Wincapaw, in spite of weather reports of an impending snowstorm, took off in his single-engine airplane over the […] Read more »