Nova Scotia is as nice a place as I thought it would be. It’s kind of like Maine, but there are some things here that are way more dramatic. On a double-decker bus tour this afternoon, we drove around this compact city of about 400,000 and saw the impressive seaport–and […]
We are madly packing for a trip to Nova Scotia this week. We will drive to Montreal and at 5 pm take the Porter Airlines flight over to Halifax. Many people have asked us why we’re not taking the ferry from Maine. The sad answer is that there is no […]
The first day of Green River Festival 2013 was fun, just as much fun as I hoped it would be. What I sensed and confirmed among many people I asked was that this year the crowd was smaller….but it was just as enthusiastic as ever. When I went up to […]
Last night I played drums, like I do every Wednesday night, and I asked my music making chums if they were going to this year’s Green River Festival. It’s become such a tradition for me, and I see so many of my old friends there, I wondered how many of them were […]
A really exciting place these days is… Easthampton! People are talking about Popcorn Noir, and Coco and the Cellar Bar, and that great rail trail so easy to come from Northampton. I want to spend more time in Easthampton. In a few weeks is a great way for you to […]
A few times a week I drive on Rte 91 and look down to where the new bridges are being built over the Deerfield river. The project, costing about $40 million, is set to be completed by 2016. Today I finally got to see what the bridge that is being […]
I’m back from a week’s vacation with 20 or so members of my extended family and what a time we had! I had worried a bit about the old sophomore jinx…could this trip be as fun as last year, when we first came to this gigantic house on a lake […]
I’ve been stalling because I’ve got a five-and-a-half hour drive ahead of me. I’ll be taking a course through New York State and then …well I am sworn to secrecy about my destination, so I will not provide those details. I am meeting the entire family down there, it’s a […]
I am zipping along here, having made a major improvement to my four-year-old Macbook laptop. Have you ever seen how fast a solid state drive is, compared to the spinning hard drives we find in most computers and laptops? It’s incredible. It’s as fast as an iPad, and nothing needs […]
WILCO’s Solid Sound Festival at Mass MOCA in North Adams was a great day of music, arts and comedy. It was also so popular it felt like all of New York City had jumped on a bus and headed north. It was bumper to bumper people, lines snaking out far […]
I moved to my small Massachusetts town in 2000, and brought with me an account at BayBank. I had my Baybank Card…some of you may remember that quaint jingle. The BayBank branch in South Deerfield was a busy place, every Friday afternoon migrant workers from Mexico would line up 12 […]
