as the old wives say: “red sun at night, monks miss their flight”
Just outside of Linwood in the town of Northbridge is a ballfield that directly abuts a cemetery. I have no great wish to be buried, but if I did, that wouldn’t be the worst assignment
Cetera agonistes! This is from the 1973 The Granite, the U. of New Hampshire yearbook, and the show was either the previous Nov. 6 or 7 (Setlist dot fm gives both dates.)
The Red Sox have seven pitchers? Why, the crybabies! A New England sportswriter longs for the "better and tougher baseball" of old:
Library day! I finished only one of the books I took out last time around, but it was a good one.
#OTD 60 years ago: "Dirty Water" -- not yet a civic anthem; just a live-and-risin' chart hit -- is top ten at Boston's WMEX.
This week in 1963: in the last summer before Beatlemania, WFEA in Manchester, New Hampshire, is spinning Billy J. Kramer's "Do You Want to Know A Secret?," written by a couple of Limey unknowns named Lennon and McCartney.
Former U. of Maine legend has that folksy knowledge that only catchers acquire
When I pass this sign outside the local McDonald’s, I always misread it as FRIED PIG IS BACK, which is a frightening thought indeed
there’s a pile of photos in my Flickr account, dated July 2009, from the briefly entertaining but immediately forgotten Yearbook Yourself
Cleaning off the #Charmera for the #ShittyCameraChallenge. One of these pix predates the formal start of the latest Challenge, but if our weary world stops turning, that will not be the cause.
from the I Guess Things Today Could Be A Little Worse file: OTD 50 years ago, the Mass. State Police are investigating the 13th bombing in 10 weeks.
Reading a 1971 beginners' guide to photography on @archive.org and imagining the long-ago day when somebody's daughter, niece, or next-door neighbor agreed to go out and sit for a bunch of photos illustrating different camera settings. Wonder who, when, and where?