While most of us want to put Covid behind us, recent news headlines make that hard to do. What should you know? What should you do? The most important fact is that like it or not, Covid is probably here to stay. While the worst of the pandemic is thankfully behind us, Covid […] Read more »
Everyone has a story of when they met or saw a celebrity. Maybe you got an autograph at a ballgame or stood in line behind a celebrity at the bank or had one wave at you at a stop light as I did with Dave Cowens of the Boston Celtics. Milton Berle, the […] Read more »
One of the first things Connor Gaudet realized when he was selected as the new curator for the Mattapoisett Museum was the voluminous quantity of ephemera in the collection. For decades as folks in the area cleaned out closets and attics, possibly upon the passing of a loved one, old materials held on […] Read more »
A new art exhibit is now on view at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library. Chris Morgado is a photographer, among other things, whose primary interest is rock ‘n’ roll musicians. At first, he just took pictures at concerts using his phone camera, but as his age and interest increased, he moved on to taking […] Read more »
There are now more people over the age of 60 than under the age of 20, according to Dementia Friendly America Massachusetts. Marion’s Council on Aging is taking this seriously. On Tuesday, September 12, at 1:00 pm, the COA will host Dementia Friendly Massachusetts Project Director Patty Sullivan to introduce interested community members to […] Read more »
Some years ago, there was an art gallery in the building that once held the J.A. Hagen Toy Factory next to the old fire station across from the Cathay Temple restaurant. I worked in the factory one summer before college. It was a summer of misery, working in front of 100-degree ovens dressed in […] Read more »
The diversity of local talent able to produce outstanding works of art in a vast variety of mediums is, in a word, stunning. That reality was on full display at the Rochester Council on Aging, as the members held their first Beachside Art Show on August 24. Although not a juried exhibit, attendees […] Read more »
Henry Huttleston Rogers and Mark Twain were good friends and kindred spirits in many ways. They both were fond of theater, poker, billiards, practical jokes, the good-natured spoof, literature and architecture. Mr. Rogers was a very successful American industrialist and financier. He made his fortune in the oil-refining business, becoming a leader at […] Read more »
“British-born Joseph Rotch was the preindustrial age visionary who transformed New Bedford from a sleepy farm and fishing village to the global center of the whaling industry that endured for more than a century, shaping the city and the region into the 20th century.” From the forward written by Ken Hartnett for “Hometown,” a […] Read more »
Eight years ago, a 16-year-old Freemin Bauer was going to make a dog park in Mattapoisett his Eagle Scout project. “The head council, they were like, ‘it’s too much work, too much effort and it’ll take too long,’ which I can see now why,” the 24-year-old said, recalling his teenage idealism. “For my […] Read more »