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How to Make Our Town A Little More Livable

Residents of Deerfield meet to discuss ways to make it more livable.

Last night, a few dozen neighbors and I pored over blow up aerial photos of our town.  We had gathered at the invitation of Bernie Kubiak, the town manager, who is using a HUD sustainability grant  to develop a Complete Streets and Downtown Livability Plan for the South Deerfield village […]

Paddling is a Great Way to Spend a Minor Holiday

Yesterday I phoned my friend Jack, with whom I’ve shared a Columbus Day tradition for many years. We always go on a hike some where, and I leave it to him to figure out our route.  There was a time way, way back when I used to work on a […]

Tag Sale Tips: Find the Alpha Dog

Buyers mulling over a tag sale.

In Deerfield yesterday, it was Tag Sale Day. I decided my garage was full enough to make it sale time. The night before I blew off my plans for socializing to focus on the task–I had to get all of this stuff out of the garage and clean off the […]

Baystate Franklin Nurses Aren’t Asking for the Moon

My daughter Kate is unhappy with how she thinks people are viewing the current nurses strike at Baystate Franklin. Some of the issues are that Baystate does not want to pay overtime to nurses who often work 12 and 15 hours days during their shifts. It’s true that for many […]

Datsun’s Coming Back, As a $3000 Car

Remember Datsun?   It’s about to make a comeback, says the president of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn. Raised in Brazil and Lebanon, he remembers the societies he grew up in, where everybody didn’t have a car. Heck, he didn’t get his first car til turned 18. A story in the WSJ […]

The Count Makes the Case for His Family’s Pencils

Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell is the eighth member of his family to run the empire that makes pencils.  That name–it’s gotta be familiar to anyone who has ever filled out an SAT test with a Number 2, or chewed  on a yellow Mongol, invented by his brother, Eberhard.  In […]

The Dog Stars Is Already a Hit, and Soon, a Movie

Peter Heller reading from The Dog Stars at the Odyssey Bookshop, S. Hadley

Last night we heard my old friend Peter Heller read from his new novel, The Dog Stars at the Odyssey Bookshop. There was a good turnout and we learned from Joan Grenier the owner that she had ordered 300 copies of the book. Her bookstore has a first edition club […]

When Three Sites Combine, Good Things Happen

So many things swirl around my head on this early morning. Good things, swirling hither and yon, things that I’m worried about but not bad things–just challenges.I would much rather face steep learning curves than battle deficits of income…so I’ll get on a conference call with my fellow webmasters today […]

A Man and His Ship and My Uncle the Accountant

SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built, designed by Gibbs & Cox.

When we were growing up, a big part of our family lore was that our great uncle, Frederic H. Gibbs, designed the fastest ocean liner ever built. We used to visit FH and his wife, Bess, at their summer cottage at the Weekapaug Inn on Rhode Island’s coast. Fred had […]

Being Grandpa is Way Better than Being Dad

Being Grandpa is Way Better than Being Dad

My mom first clued me in. Being a grandparent is beyond satisfying, it’s like getting a do-over for the mistakes you made when you raised your own kids, until they had kids. I have a few friends who are now just experiencing multiple child rearing, and having completed my stint, […]

Executive Valet is Where I Always Park at Bradley

Executive Valet, the best parking choice at Bradley.

When you’re off on a trip, you mostly think about where you’ll be staying when you get there. You plan a rough itinerary, maybe leave some wiggle room for whatever might happen along the route, but for most part the plans involve the destination. But what about your car?  Where […]

GoNOMAD Travel on Mobile: Read us where you like

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I am playing around with my new website and it’s fun. I am finally able to say that we have a better mobile site than I thought we would.  As a person who uses an iPhone incessantly, I can say how important the mobile look is. Now a screen tells […]

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