Tag Archives: New England

Home-town Memorial Day—once more

I still can’t get used to Memorial Day (originally ‘Decoration Day’) being observed on the 4th Monday of May—just to give Americans a 3-day weekend. I ignore the red, white and blue advertising supplements in the Sunday newspaper encouraging readers to go out and shop. But I do observe some traditions. In my New England [Read more...]
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Henry Knox: Bookseller, Soldier, Patriot

Evacuation Day—March 17, 1776—might not have happened if it weren’t for the efforts of young Henry Knox and his courageous men: a biography for grade school by Anita Silvey, illustrated by Wendell Minor. Children’s literature expert and author, Anita Silvey, brings us a little-known story of a former Boston bookseller, now soldier, who brought an idea [Read more...]
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March 17th – What else do we remember?

March 17th – Evacuation Day If you live outside of the Massachusetts, you may not know that Evacuation Day coincides with St. Patrick’s Day on this date. The significance of this day was not discussed in my classes growing up in this Commonwealth, but in my home. ( I’ll recommend a book after I describe [Read more...]
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Book Review: “The Nature Connection”

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year, the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change. —E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web   I’m starting this entry in mid-August outdoors in my garden. Here in New England, the hot [Read more...]
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Do You Love Your Teacher?

Today I heard one boy’s answer— When I left New Jersey, leaving behind my work as the Director of Community Development at the Princeton Waldorf School in 1995, I didn’t know that when I settled in my hometown in northeast Massachusetts, I would learn of a group trying to start a Waldorf school in Portsmouth, [Read more...]
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Long Live the Bookstore

In addition to my work as a publisher, I’ve also been active on the Board of Directors of Independent Book Publishers of New England, IPNE.  Founded in 2000, IPNE is an association for authors, publishers, and those who are affiliated with the book publishing industry. Our 2nd Annual New England Publishing Conference this past weekend [Read more...]
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Spring Activities

Our long snow and icy winter is over and spring has finally come to New England. March and April can seem so long here along the NH/Massachusetts border, especially when the leaves on the trees don’t open up until the first week in May. A New England spring can last several weeks or sometimes only [Read more...]
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