Thank goodness it’s gone. When a recent essay of mine appeared here, my photo appeared with it. When asked if that would be all right, I agreed. Why not, after all, my face has appeared next to my columns before, so sure, what the heck. I now know that other contributors are obviously […] Read more »
December 10 was a grand day in Mattapoisett, in spite of the misty precipitation and gray skies. Two holiday events brought out community members in celebration. At noontime, a vocal concert was held in the reading room of the Mattapoisett Library. Opera singers from the Seaglass Theater performers delighted a standing-room-only crowd. Comprised of […] Read more »
When Marion was still a small town in 1860, many people living there were very well traveled and brought back exotic species of the natural world. Elizabeth Taber, at the age of 81 years, decided to put some culture into her native village. She bought a 10-acre tract of land to house a library on […] Read more »
Thanksgiving has passed and the Christmas season has begun, notwithstanding the fact that stores have been selling Christmas merchandise ad nauseum since September. In our house, the season begins the day after the turkey has been devoured and the offspring have returned to their own homes, not to be heard from until there are gifts […] Read more »
There might not have been a wintery bite to weekend’s breezes or snow on the ground, but it wasn’t needed to make the Festival of Trees 2022 a holiday treat. For a few years now (skipping the obvious winter of pandemic constraints), the Friends of the Marion Council on Aging has held a Festival […] Read more »
The holidays are upon us. We’ve cooked and eaten the Thanksgiving feast and now we plunge head-first into the gift-giving mania that is shopping. When the grandchildren were little, I’d shop year-round, hiding things away in July with great anticipation of smiles in December. However, there are other more delicate matters, family matters […] Read more »
There is a partnership that has grown between two groups whose goals, while not the same, blend the very best in volunteerism for the beautification of their town: Marion Tree Committee and the Marion Garden Group. For several years now, the MGG has striven to place oases of flowers in previously neglected locations such […] Read more »
Editor’s note: Five members of the Old Rochester Regional Youth Football 12-and-under team share their experience of the 2022 season that saw the Bulldogs rebound from a 2-3 record to run the table through the Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts League of Pop Warner Football and then win their way to the New England […] Read more »
The bruises and cuts may have hurt even more by Sunday, but in the long term, each and every welt should remind the members of the Old Rochester Regional Youth Football 12-and-under team of what they accomplished. At one point this fall, the Bulldogs were 2-3, and one more loss would have canceled […] Read more »
November 20 shone bright and clear but with a stiff breeze that reminded anyone outside that winter is indeed on the way. That did not dissuade about 20 hearty souls from attending a stone wall-building workshop hosted by the Mattapoisett Land Trust. The workshop was led by MLT’s Peter Davies at the Oliver Wendell Holmes […] Read more »