February 5th, 2025 | General, History, Politics, visual arts
Back in the late nineteen-sixties, I clipped a cartoon from The New Yorker, at a time that urban renewal was doing its worst in a variety of Boston neighborhoods. It summarizes perfectly how I feel about the State of the Union: “The GOP and MAGA have taken down most...
November 7th, 2024 | General, History, Politics, Society at Large
I spent November 5, 2024, working at my local polling place. Had just enough time to shower and dress, walk Ping, have a swallow of tea, and trot over to Samuel Adams Elementary School before the clock chimed six. There’s a lot to prepare: putting up signs, plugging...
October 18th, 2024 | Boston, Genealogy, History, Massachusetts, Popular Culture
Pilgrim Witches I might have thought that was all the witchcraft there was in the tree, until January 2024 when I was wandering in Old South Church off Copley Square in Boston. The church has installed a series of panels along the back of the nave that describes the...
