tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56165872068863246502024-03-13T07:37:12.043-04:00New England TravelsVisits to City and Seacoast, Farm and Factory, Mountains and Valleys. And Miles to Go Before I Sleep.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comBlogger703125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-50327730165756600582024-02-12T09:43:00.000-05:002024-02-12T09:43:03.116-05:00A Tragic Toast to Christmas - wood alcohol deaths of 1919 in Chicopee, Mass.<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWt_P9nH4WqFYoERXUlrNXvR4RQn8WhkCXghylGVwq7SkacjYUB0iZgC5PXhU_Cq6oTauaHcw8dN5Qopz17v-6TOa-GLWWZQpMpvLdcaNkanbLYp6HXMBA-zACwiqS8hf1QhVV3SRIc3GteZkinYoxkp8kX7qApYVPbifIF0EiWxiNk26t0ori5lWUTro/s2250/Tragic%20Toast%20to%20Christmas%20cover%20jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="1410" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWt_P9nH4WqFYoERXUlrNXvR4RQn8WhkCXghylGVwq7SkacjYUB0iZgC5PXhU_Cq6oTauaHcw8dN5Qopz17v-6TOa-GLWWZQpMpvLdcaNkanbLYp6HXMBA-zACwiqS8hf1QhVV3SRIc3GteZkinYoxkp8kX7qApYVPbifIF0EiWxiNk26t0ori5lWUTro/w251-h400/Tragic%20Toast%20to%20Christmas%20cover%20jpg.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">More than 100 people died of a companionable drink in several towns and cities in New England on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1919, nearly half of them in the city of Chicopee, Massachusetts. How this came to happen, and even how it came to be forgotten are both intriguing aspects to the tragedy.</span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">The story of the grisly incident of unknowingly ingesting poisonous wood alcohol and how it played out in one New England city might stand as a microcosm of the conflict created between the legal production and sale of alcohol, those who would prohibit it, and those who would do anything to profit from it, not only in the years up to 1919, but in the tumultuous decade that followed.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">Have a look at my new book, <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSYN9NN9" target="_blank">A Tragic Toast to Christmas -- The Infamous Wood Alcohol Deaths of 1919 in Chicopee, Massachusetts.</a></i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">******************</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="outline: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. </i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Tom, Holyoke</i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">, </b><i style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">Massachusetts</i></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">;</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="outline: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a>, </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSYN9NN9" target="_blank">A Tragic Toast to Christmas -- The Infamous Wood Alcohol Deaths of 1919 in Chicopee, Mass.</a></b></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074C3P19T?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tukn" target="_blank">Double V Mysteries series</a> is set in New England in the early 1950s. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-51704394942354870752024-01-28T12:24:00.000-05:002024-01-28T12:24:05.200-05:00Poet Jack Hayes' new work -- PRAYER WIND<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy4lQeGPBCztdjMId94fFfX6yutzMcDvH6WGsWh6E7vHiAa3kQyfJyr-qEkGngkbiAuO3uMjZzTe6d6RmJE8nkedUJHWnNWtSeBLgzdP9N6VLMVAHvQw-KoqkXW84PLU1PsnPExOoSJXDqxYs2HJ-vh8xYD5egMPGMrQjsLAp9GxsDayUeusoB7v69mgQg/s466/Prayer%20Wind%20cover%20by%20Jack%20Hayes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="314" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy4lQeGPBCztdjMId94fFfX6yutzMcDvH6WGsWh6E7vHiAa3kQyfJyr-qEkGngkbiAuO3uMjZzTe6d6RmJE8nkedUJHWnNWtSeBLgzdP9N6VLMVAHvQw-KoqkXW84PLU1PsnPExOoSJXDqxYs2HJ-vh8xYD5egMPGMrQjsLAp9GxsDayUeusoB7v69mgQg/w270-h400/Prayer%20Wind%20cover%20by%20Jack%20Hayes.jpg" width="270" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jack Hayes' recent volume of poetry, one of an ambitious three-volume project, is being published by Askance Publishing. <i><b>Prayer Wind</b></i> is the first title, and is available at the <a href="https://askancepublishing.wordpress.com/jack-hayes/" target="_blank">Askance website</a>, and also at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Wind-1-Jack-Hayes-ebook/dp/B0CR1XQ33W/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.l976fbIIPx2GV9Af_Fw05WRPBxTEVU3aCIahBEwtHnv8jr7RnhGr3Gc3UEVQsSwujigO4LOfqYcBzRVOlsNGvXyfHWYoH5r4OMU74qHZ-C1iZdBo2H1_IjcLF1OFV_QyqQftLBsf2CAHyvV2Vp5epf5zY9rnh0_A-zDhwBW88m_NLqlhdsVqYrdCw3iDyGG0UcTs8saov5Icd8QG-UwFvHKTu7MgHH44ykNLe0eRdFs.wOUB0ZwELNwhdjOjCcdi2vzMKXa0LxXGNnR6mvINkXQ&qid=1705869394&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a> and <a href="https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/prayer-wind-volume-1?utm_source=linkshare_us&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=Skimlinks.com&utm_term=725X1342X8943309dc5391e798ecf83df2da2903c&ranMID=37217&ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-DQQ1kI.pGz0dV7SS2X4N0w&siteID=TnL5HPStwNw-DQQ1kI.pGz0dV7SS2X4N0w" target="_blank">Kobo</a>.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Here's the lovely description on the Askance website:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838;">"Written through four difficult years, the poems reflect not only Jack’s personal journey but the hugely challenging times in which we all found ourselves. His words also reflect the cycle of the year and the pulse of nature with their inevitable highs and lows. Playful, deeply reflective, sad and joyful – Prayer Wind is all these and more.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838;">"These are poems not to be hurried but to be read at leisure, to be savoured." </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: georgia;">Two earlier collections of poetry were featured on this blog previously, called </span><a href="https://newenglandtravels.blogspot.com/2010/11/spring-ghazals-by-jack-hayes.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i>The Spring Ghazals</i> here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: georgia;">, and </span><a href="https://newenglandtravels.blogspot.com/2010/03/days-of-wine-roses.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i>The Days of Wine and Roses</i> here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: georgia;">. Jack is a native Vermonter, now living in Oregon. Read more about </span><a href="https://askancepublishing.wordpress.com/jack-hayes/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">his journey here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: georgia;">. His voice is original, authentic, spiritual, contemplative, and bold. Please have a look at the links here to get your copy of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: georgia;">Prayer Wind</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: georgia;">.</span></span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-45425562550486269252024-01-22T08:03:00.000-05:002024-01-22T08:03:04.034-05:00Amherst Railway Society annual Railroad Hobby Show<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKcQVhs0wMCSRBQI7TLbX-YsJIJsZWd3SxGUs-9AD0Q2aV3d-sXrsNC7WTaPSispvPaKc0LoW874bgnOD7BUpmd4NU2gRgZiywZYNO-BQzbMZruTpgJZc56NGIvhJACAfujhfOKH62Edu31y-gamUtVX-h1pbucQqhLeB6fgFux522uNZoGmSTk0-5f2Mx/s2576/Amherst%20Railway%20train%20show%202023%20photo%20by%20JT%20Lynch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1932" data-original-width="2576" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKcQVhs0wMCSRBQI7TLbX-YsJIJsZWd3SxGUs-9AD0Q2aV3d-sXrsNC7WTaPSispvPaKc0LoW874bgnOD7BUpmd4NU2gRgZiywZYNO-BQzbMZruTpgJZc56NGIvhJACAfujhfOKH62Edu31y-gamUtVX-h1pbucQqhLeB6fgFux522uNZoGmSTk0-5f2Mx/w400-h300/Amherst%20Railway%20train%20show%202023%20photo%20by%20JT%20Lynch.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">photo by J.T. Lynch</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">This coming weekend, Saturday, January 27th and Sunday, January 28th, the annual Railroad Hobby Show hosted by the Amherst Railway Society comes to the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is the largest model railroad trade show in the United States, and a very enjoyable event not only for model railroad enthusiasts, but for anyone with a nostalgic bent of mind. There's four buildings of train layouts, miniature worlds of exquisite detail. Come have a look.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Learn </span><a href="https://www.railroadhobbyshow.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">more about the show here.</span><br /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">******************</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="outline: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">;</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="outline: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074C3P19T?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tukn" target="_blank">Double V Mysteries series</a> is set in New England in the early 1950s. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.railroadhobbyshow.com/" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-28307562303656537342023-12-02T11:10:00.000-05:002023-12-02T11:10:22.712-05:00Chicopee Falls mystery novel - THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT KILLED<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDoSVcnddrsegEyVU_Ku5p75u7wQtBzKFy9HUoSBPrvfFsFhxUr2y_9d8q1ydNd_QHCXHvtloWV369AOhAIV3gQKcPjfr5_CpOLxN9uNtBzPn2S-q9smSGYd-AMQVnHwOw6OcVxQHVCYIfmxdxkJGQTqqwEkdc1jX12kUpyZ4Jzj9ct4g7ejhuzOPPdD8/s1250/Little%20Engine%20that%20Killed%20slanted%20cover.png" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDoSVcnddrsegEyVU_Ku5p75u7wQtBzKFy9HUoSBPrvfFsFhxUr2y_9d8q1ydNd_QHCXHvtloWV369AOhAIV3gQKcPjfr5_CpOLxN9uNtBzPn2S-q9smSGYd-AMQVnHwOw6OcVxQHVCYIfmxdxkJGQTqqwEkdc1jX12kUpyZ4Jzj9ct4g7ejhuzOPPdD8/w400-h400/Little%20Engine%20that%20Killed%20slanted%20cover.png" width="400" /></a> </p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm very pleased to announce my newest book -- the seventh in my Double V Mysteries series: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM4G34JK" target="_blank"><b style="font-style: italic;">The Little Engine That Killed</b>.</a></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;">On this adventure, Juliet and Elmer take on a case tracking an about-to-be-released prisoner to recover the money he stole and hid years before -- but as usual, nothing is as it seems, there are more questions than answers, and danger increases with every twist and turn. It's the Christmas season, 1951, and our intrepid duo, unlike Santa Claus, have a little trouble determining for sure who is naughty and who is nice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;">Writing this book has been a special treat for me, because I chose the setting for this story in my own hometown -- Chicopee, Massachusetts. But there's a twist to that as well. The particular part of town where the story takes place is Chicopee Falls. In 1951, that village was completely different than it is now, because in the late 1960s and early 1970s, most of it was demolished in an urban renewal project. To write this book, I had to recreate not only a time, but a place that no longer exists. All of the books in this series are a form of time-travel. This one, </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;"><em style="outline: none;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM4G34JK" target="_blank">The Little Engine That Killed</a>,</em></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;"> is especially so.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;" /></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As you can tell from the cover, trains figure prominently in the story. Coal does, too, but not just for the Christmas stocking.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Grab your copy in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM4G34JK" target="_blank">print or eBook here at Amazon</a>, or a variety of other online sources <a href="https://books2read.com/u/47RMGa" target="_blank">including Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo and others!</a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">******************</span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="outline: none;"></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">;</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="outline: none;"></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074C3P19T?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tukn" target="_blank">Double V Mysteries series</a> is set in New England in the early 1950s. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-33369269097207129082023-11-13T08:15:00.000-05:002023-11-13T08:15:15.713-05:00Reminder - Zoom talk on CHRISTMAS IN CLASSIC FILMS one week away!<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv0617510136templateContainer" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; max-width: 600px !important; outline: none !important; width: 100%;"><tbody style="outline: none !important;"><tr style="outline: none !important;"><td id="yiv0617510136templateHeader" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; outline: none !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv0617510136mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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outline: none !important;">Next week...A Zoom discussion on CHRISTMAS IN CLASSIC FILMS!</span></span></h1><p style="line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; outline: none !important;">My Zoom presentation on my book <a href="https://jacquelinetlynch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ce6dbfc4810d8dea1df11048c&id=9f07dc412a&e=e0ae2acc95" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89; outline: none !important;" target="_blank"><strong style="outline: none !important;"><em style="outline: none !important;">Christmas in Classic Films</em></strong></a> is one week away!<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><img height="410" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fce6dbfc4810d8dea1df11048c%2Fimages%2Ffe66d97c-3510-0916-1727-5afbf1bda06e.png&t=1699881071&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1cc1-4f0093017c00&sig=mDDMM8TKSoslnBDD3zg5XA--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 410px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 300px;" width="300" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The talk is being hosted online by Sal St. George and the St. George Living History Productions. I'll be discussing several examples of how Christmas becomes the climax and resolution in several classic films, which are not really "Christmas movies." </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />Mr. St. George is an Adjunct Professor and Lecturer presenting programs across the U.S.A. specializing in Old Hollywood, and Motion Picture & Television history. St. George Living History Productions has presented Zoom programs to thousands of viewers worldwide. Mr. St. George initiated Virtual Road Trips to Celebrity Museums and so far, those Zoom Road Trips have taken his audience to:<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />The Will Rogers Museum, The Red Skelton Museum, The John Wayne Museum, The P.T. Barnum Museum, The Mary Pickford Exhibition, The Lizzie Borden Museum, The Rosemary Clooney Museum, The It's a Wonderful Life Museum, The Clark Gable Museum, The Phil Silvers Museum, The Laurel and Hardy Museum, The Buffalo Bill Cody Center, The Ginger Rogers Museum, James Dean Museum, The Patti Page Exhibition, Edward Hopper Museum, The Yogi Berra, The Donna Reed Museum, and much more.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />The event is scheduled for Monday, November 20th at 10:00 a.m. ET. Please join us for a fun discussion on some of your favorites -- and perhaps a few you would not have considered to be Christmas classics. 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Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">;</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="outline: none !important;"></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-89743477333898402732023-10-24T09:53:00.000-04:002023-10-24T09:53:41.625-04:00Mapping It Out - THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT KILLED - Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiooTBUMaEgrQSW-diqlhi3Fw_abubWKIS_f_f0wZ6ybfDYPBF3aFCjKkRaRGvwCaOdRzL7kJU6bdaGTCFkhJE20D2zr4kJw31nbwGCIAeDf4VCAaUJWBwwGwXM1sgBz7iBXfkovaASaO-NXdEcP3D_Ajv_e_7b1F-BZwa29WSfIPX5-7sfMTVrcIZsSNuu/s2816/Chicopee%201946%20topo%20map%20closeup%20300%20dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2816" data-original-width="1996" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiooTBUMaEgrQSW-diqlhi3Fw_abubWKIS_f_f0wZ6ybfDYPBF3aFCjKkRaRGvwCaOdRzL7kJU6bdaGTCFkhJE20D2zr4kJw31nbwGCIAeDf4VCAaUJWBwwGwXM1sgBz7iBXfkovaASaO-NXdEcP3D_Ajv_e_7b1F-BZwa29WSfIPX5-7sfMTVrcIZsSNuu/w284-h400/Chicopee%201946%20topo%20map%20closeup%20300%20dpi.jpg" width="284" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />The next book in my nostalgic mystery series, <strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;"><em style="outline: none !important;">THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT KILLED</em></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"> is set Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, in December 1951. Though the characters and events are fictitious, the locations mentioned in the story did exist in this manufacturing village. But no more. This novel seeks to recreate a time before the Urban Renewal movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s drastically changed our urban centers; in the case of Chicopee Falls, wiped out most of it. Some of the streets are gone now, and some whose directions are diverted and altered, but the more profound difference between then and now are the buildings on those streets that went under the wrecking ball.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">Other aspects of the story are easier to distinguish on a map. Above we have a 1946 topographical map by the U.S. Geographical Survey that shows a deep green area on the bluffs across the river from Chicopee Falls and other areas that were deeply wooded long before they were changed to suburban neighborhoods in the 1950s and 1960s. A great place to dig a hole and hide stolen money. If you really wanted to.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">The "landing field" at the bottom of the map is the old Springfield Airport, the home of biplanes and the innovative GeeBees long before it became a shopping center. For some, a field of dreams.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">The railroad following parallel along the river figures prominently in the story. That's not there anymore, either.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">There's lots of trains in the book.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><img height="400" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fce6dbfc4810d8dea1df11048c%2Fimages%2Fcd0e6e3a-5e25-82d7-d3db-dabd200f7588.png&t=1698154969&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1c54-a6005601cc00&sig=X_mugRhf5QjzsWdzFRvjGg--~D" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202020; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 400px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 400px;" width="400" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><img height="245" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fce6dbfc4810d8dea1df11048c%2Fimages%2F230d2e66-3341-989a-966a-5ba2e7d72e45.jpg&t=1698154969&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1c54-a6005601cc00&sig=golh4n1zbSCc102NCoGxjg--~D" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202020; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 245px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 400px;" width="400" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">Here's a closer look at the setting in the web of streets of Chicopee Falls from a 1912 atlas that also figures into the story. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">Turning back time is a fascinating prospect, and one I've enjoyed very much in the writing of this mystery. I hope you'll enjoy it, too.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">I'm hoping to have </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;"><em style="outline: none !important;">The Little Engine That Killed</em></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"> published in November in eBook and in print, and I'll keep you up-to-date as we get closer. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">******************</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="outline: none;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">;</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-88499953646053499882023-10-18T08:21:00.002-04:002023-10-18T08:21:51.119-04:00Matchbooks as clues in THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT KILLED - Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: firebrick; outline: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8fJHdKRQeNOtPsvlipBDRyyQipZhWM5r-ZC25HtwGJ667ZsyeBTuTZA09TztDgsbBT7s8Km9Blmn3D2Sosj_3OtPfVCp_6oTQnn4YZv-2XE1-LBFMYswbKR2piVEFhc56pLd-_gqyoO-pRUlI8pxviNwkdwmtFMvBCryEqZKmOOk0v3y-tj0ASmiHUkM/s1115/Chicopee%20Falls%20SAvings%20bank%20matchbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1115" data-original-width="847" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8fJHdKRQeNOtPsvlipBDRyyQipZhWM5r-ZC25HtwGJ667ZsyeBTuTZA09TztDgsbBT7s8Km9Blmn3D2Sosj_3OtPfVCp_6oTQnn4YZv-2XE1-LBFMYswbKR2piVEFhc56pLd-_gqyoO-pRUlI8pxviNwkdwmtFMvBCryEqZKmOOk0v3y-tj0ASmiHUkM/w304-h400/Chicopee%20Falls%20SAvings%20bank%20matchbook.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><br />Matchbooks as clues in the upcoming --<br style="outline: none !important;" /><em style="outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;">THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT KILLED</strong></em></span></span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br style="outline: none !important;" />The next book in my nostalgic mystery series set in New England in the post-World War II era takes place in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, in December 1951. Though the characters and events are fictitious, the locations mentioned in the story did exist in this manufacturing village. But no more. This novel seeks to recreate a time before the Urban Renewal movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s drastically changed our urban centers; in the case of Chicopee Falls, wiped out most of it.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; height: auto !important; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><img height="352" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fce6dbfc4810d8dea1df11048c%2Fimages%2F98a00ff8-22e5-26ed-febd-63ca5221e4a1.jpg&t=1697631139&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1c03-02002401ec00&sig=UMP2lTXJfDb60HG9dMumeQ--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 352px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 115px;" width="115" /></span> <span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; height: auto !important; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><img height="443" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fce6dbfc4810d8dea1df11048c%2Fimages%2Faeb2c9cc-d7f4-c0e9-60e1-a8c74225c56b.jpg&t=1697631139&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1c03-02002401ec00&sig=wYSLtH5yXTD1pL9R.6UR7Q--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 443px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 146px;" width="146" /></span> <br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />It was also a time of lots of smoking, as you see here in the several images of matchbooks from businesses in Chicopee Falls in 1951 that pop up in the novel. It's funny for us today, perhaps, to think of even a bank offering matchbooks to its customers, but in an era of a widespread smoking habit, it was perhaps a good way to advertise, as handy, and more useful than a business card.<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; height: auto !important; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><img height="182" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fce6dbfc4810d8dea1df11048c%2Fimages%2Fcd3babef-6f34-f8d5-eca3-688b2d1b04d8.jpg&t=1697631139&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1c03-02002401ec00&sig=gP9rfWLZoRpUbt.UvyzIug--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 182px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 500px;" width="500" /></span><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />I'm hoping to have <strong style="outline: none !important;"><em style="outline: none !important;">The Little Engine That Killed</em></strong> published in November in eBook and in print, and I'll keep you up to date on the particulars. <br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />*************************************<br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />I'd like to share with you the wonderfully silly cartoons by my twin brother, John, on a variety of products such as mugs, T-shirts, and more, over at his Redbubble site. <a href="https://us2.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redbubble.com%2Fpeople%2Farteacher23%2Fshop&xid=b30ca3660a&uid=6257642&iid=489ad947f3&pool=cts&v=2&c=1697631125&h=f8740ce95f8b46766e489a1869c81659ae30398ac36a69d49bf62c9a2b395875" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">Here's a link to his shop: ArteAcher23</a> with more items being added every month. Here's a cute black cat, enjoying having an enormous piece of candy corn all to himself. Get your mug, shirt, apron, or whatever in time for Halloween!</span><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, New serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; height: auto !important; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><img height="410" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fce6dbfc4810d8dea1df11048c%2Fimages%2F86e1a2cd-9b4d-00bb-8409-871a3bb5b314.png&t=1697631139&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1c03-02002401ec00&sig=VbsjPHu7arQrsvnZ5ZezCA--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 410px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 400px;" width="400" /></span></span><br style="outline: none !important;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; outline: none !important;"> </span><br style="outline: none !important;" /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">******************</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Georgia, Times, "New serif"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="outline: none !important;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-10030981239724954512023-10-10T09:52:00.000-04:002023-10-10T09:52:49.929-04:00Zoom Talk - Christmas in Classic Films - Coming in November!<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6hmGXzYv6yDFa9AFxaWICZnm_fSSZ4aHaWFP3FTnBQ2wtp8rWCEoLTDX83eZcFpMqPnycqSW6SEJOvf5on_5HZztMlAfSmqro7_sYPtLGBDWzpY_OiNnAxaeBxGRjrEVS0Rvkz0J0j6G-aE9h7hc2t0_-GcevvaXa330X5UWT_l7TRvr3CZLvLms0D30u/s1046/Chrismas%20in%20Classic%20Films%20talk%20with%20Sal%20St.%20George.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="1046" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6hmGXzYv6yDFa9AFxaWICZnm_fSSZ4aHaWFP3FTnBQ2wtp8rWCEoLTDX83eZcFpMqPnycqSW6SEJOvf5on_5HZztMlAfSmqro7_sYPtLGBDWzpY_OiNnAxaeBxGRjrEVS0Rvkz0J0j6G-aE9h7hc2t0_-GcevvaXa330X5UWT_l7TRvr3CZLvLms0D30u/w400-h226/Chrismas%20in%20Classic%20Films%20talk%20with%20Sal%20St.%20George.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />This is to announce that next month I'll be doing a Zoom presentation on my book<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"> </span><a href="https://us2.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BGM343TT&xid=bd63591a47&uid=6257642&iid=7f9a7f96e5&pool=cts&v=2&c=1696945301&h=708ff3e0e9b72b49182fd56ab1f4607475c60c3d8a881ca3b74b199cb742d85f" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89; outline: none !important;" target="_blank"><strong style="outline: none !important;"><em style="outline: none !important;">Christmas in Classic Films</em></strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;"><br style="outline: none !important;" /><img height="410" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fce6dbfc4810d8dea1df11048c%2Fimages%2Ffe66d97c-3510-0916-1727-5afbf1bda06e.png&t=1696945324&ymreqid=d41d8cd9-8f00-b204-1c85-030019016500&sig=l.SO1e_fhzHdN7jW6KvY.Q--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 410px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; width: 300px;" width="300" /><br style="outline: none !important;" /><br style="outline: none !important;" />The talk is being hosted online by Sal St. George and the St. George Living History Productions. 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Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-91408435101435616272023-10-06T16:30:00.000-04:002023-10-06T16:30:20.306-04:00New book coming! THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT KILLED...<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghq3TE9sIDGYjI1VY7aVHnEsjv3FEODXiyKisMepY2igRvHhzclfLTPb-NiqtfviBPHHTAATMwqb2eWZ6J_DEh7T3laStbrzZawKUiSAeQh2kE5ap7qTVuVabUklp5l6l4zc72yO098VyzaHFM8Q-eP_l5p5QdewfxrYWQY-6LRkLk7ZuQuuiz7RLuBT97/s2560/Little%20Engine%20that%20Killed%20FINAL%20e-BOOK%20COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghq3TE9sIDGYjI1VY7aVHnEsjv3FEODXiyKisMepY2igRvHhzclfLTPb-NiqtfviBPHHTAATMwqb2eWZ6J_DEh7T3laStbrzZawKUiSAeQh2kE5ap7qTVuVabUklp5l6l4zc72yO098VyzaHFM8Q-eP_l5p5QdewfxrYWQY-6LRkLk7ZuQuuiz7RLuBT97/w250-h400/Little%20Engine%20that%20Killed%20FINAL%20e-BOOK%20COVER.jpg" width="250" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />I'm very pleased to announce that my newest book -- the seventh in my Double V Mysteries series, is going to be published soon!</span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;">On this adventure, Juliet and Elmer take on a case tracking an about-to-be-released prisoner to recover the money he stole and hid years before -- but as usual, nothing is as it seems, there are more questions than answers, and danger increases with every twist and turn. It's the Christmas season, 1951, and our intrepid duo, unlike Santa Claus, has a little trouble determining for sure who is naughty and who is nice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;">The setting for this story is Chicopee, Massachusetts. But there's a twist to that as well, which you'll see in weeks to come. The particular part of town where the story takes place is Chicopee Falls. In 1951, that village was completely different than it is now, because in the late 1960s and early 1970s, most of it was demolished in an urban renewal project. To write this book, I had to recreate not only a time, but a place that no longer exists. All of the books in this series are a form of time-travel. This one, </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;"><em style="outline: none !important;">The Little Engine That Killed,</em></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;"> is especially so.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; outline: none !important;">I'll let you know more in weeks to come. For now, I hope you enjoy a peek at the cover above.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-73151491058979956292023-09-21T08:15:00.002-04:002023-09-21T08:15:38.512-04:00Big E - 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRkM3jrUa8XArfVJ5rymdnQF0i7EV6sOjXtnAFBzHf0_ExBEIrQuvaQzeAyZLbTnE--yM4g8yqKnzA44_t60m00L1qREQ5k7i70hHcorYk-jz4EZ-IGRTcvN5SJWKV9sTC8-wcQMXVRWrvD7uHKFhcqkiLucULUV8C73T2YRDLHTrGO2xWZiLkpaV0bqa/s2576/Big%20E%202023%20photo%20by%20JT%20Lynch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="1932" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRkM3jrUa8XArfVJ5rymdnQF0i7EV6sOjXtnAFBzHf0_ExBEIrQuvaQzeAyZLbTnE--yM4g8yqKnzA44_t60m00L1qREQ5k7i70hHcorYk-jz4EZ-IGRTcvN5SJWKV9sTC8-wcQMXVRWrvD7uHKFhcqkiLucULUV8C73T2YRDLHTrGO2xWZiLkpaV0bqa/w300-h400/Big%20E%202023%20photo%20by%20JT%20Lynch.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> photo by JT Lynch</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It's that time of year again! Visit New England's great state(s) fair in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Behind the fife and drum corps band are some of the six replica statehouses from each New England state. That's Rhode Island peeking out from behind the tree, and Massachusetts next to it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It's a little end-of-the-summer world and for many of us, a family tradition. Enjoy!</span></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-78699564550046374902023-06-27T08:59:00.000-04:002023-06-27T08:59:59.881-04:00Westfield River -- Agawam, Massachusetts<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKG7Xs2CvLXoaOpRk7fp-I8MyOBRt77l3eJvZhHYBvg4lpYjWb_V0a-XemzWufOSv9g3TBn0nnEBttBx3U3CO9ZPrLxmOa7TYmDEYz_A62dzCVJ_O6RarhlcNjj3CG0nE2CbLrgztLSMgUDFiH3awBe9Nb6zz5LsuedTZexe4shmFajqMSBYPz1hGmMaAU/s1628/Westfield%20or%20Agawam%20River%20Springfield%20News%20Co,%20printed%20Germany%20unused.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1628" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKG7Xs2CvLXoaOpRk7fp-I8MyOBRt77l3eJvZhHYBvg4lpYjWb_V0a-XemzWufOSv9g3TBn0nnEBttBx3U3CO9ZPrLxmOa7TYmDEYz_A62dzCVJ_O6RarhlcNjj3CG0nE2CbLrgztLSMgUDFiH3awBe9Nb6zz5LsuedTZexe4shmFajqMSBYPz1hGmMaAU/w400-h254/Westfield%20or%20Agawam%20River%20Springfield%20News%20Co,%20printed%20Germany%20unused.jpg" width="400" /></a> </div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here are three postcard views of the Westfield River in Agawam, Massachusetts. They are all published by the Springfield News Company and printed in Germany, as was common in the early twentieth century. The cards all date from around 1908, and are tinted.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfGFV3_bzP8QOuE0TI6RhJhzS_r5j1xNz4ZhtAFhWbBuKxj8NnZYJAUDgTnyxHCZTuXFhvwNhtV4QYQm6ueEeaKiqk0VO7XxFF5Ve-VzLI7YYhaJ9W4E8n_BZEWovThwMPWbVP94f6C4zvU_9U38ApUtIaElHCietCV-e6qF4B3FvxKqyuTTbeSKUxMS_/s1620/Westfield%20or%20Agawam%20River%20Springfield%20News%20Co,%20printed%20Germany%20c%201908%20a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1012" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfGFV3_bzP8QOuE0TI6RhJhzS_r5j1xNz4ZhtAFhWbBuKxj8NnZYJAUDgTnyxHCZTuXFhvwNhtV4QYQm6ueEeaKiqk0VO7XxFF5Ve-VzLI7YYhaJ9W4E8n_BZEWovThwMPWbVP94f6C4zvU_9U38ApUtIaElHCietCV-e6qF4B3FvxKqyuTTbeSKUxMS_/w250-h400/Westfield%20or%20Agawam%20River%20Springfield%20News%20Co,%20printed%20Germany%20c%201908%20a.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You'll note that on the cards the river is called the Agawam River. The earliest English settlers to the area named it that for the Agawam tribe that lived in the area, but eventually came to be called the Westfield River. It begins in the Berkshires and ends in the Connecticut River, forming the boundary between the towns of Agawam and West Springfield.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkfYmdGgCLasxZOO-tnimGLk5IuEuCuRc8PxKvUSvTiRGRbDF6_apMslcvxl54P-oHP7NHq0bEthDxor8_RhG09OivpRKezFq-sY962LODo47Eal4_CgcC72hLxyo0Ag8nMo5z_spNuHmK39F3T9pl-5i79tq1CochmiYAWY3JRsaB7OzcVKzKq3ICURk/s1608/Westfield%20or%20Agawam%20River%20Springfield%20News%20Co,%20printed%20Germany%20%20Leipzig%20Dresden%20unused.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1608" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkfYmdGgCLasxZOO-tnimGLk5IuEuCuRc8PxKvUSvTiRGRbDF6_apMslcvxl54P-oHP7NHq0bEthDxor8_RhG09OivpRKezFq-sY962LODo47Eal4_CgcC72hLxyo0Ag8nMo5z_spNuHmK39F3T9pl-5i79tq1CochmiYAWY3JRsaB7OzcVKzKq3ICURk/w400-h256/Westfield%20or%20Agawam%20River%20Springfield%20News%20Co,%20printed%20Germany%20%20Leipzig%20Dresden%20unused.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Despite these idyllic scenes, by the mid-twentieth century the river became terribly polluted, as many of our rivers were through industrial contaminants, but today is clean for swimming, fishing, and its locally famous Westfield River Whitewater Races.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-65565506391124748262023-06-13T10:19:00.000-04:002023-06-13T10:19:01.175-04:00Railroad and the Mill River in Northampton, Mass.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wpJTpHQdbV92R_jA0fIp526LM3hUfTYb6oG4c_noneXtD-v4xlNyBzKNrMj-44xA0EOXEZOIB3VaZ251FdZw8JzRIe7kIosN0AWwQBhKznk9t7vowiRsUgS9FDJqLgD5wRuFrV5Q74marjOe3ELcuJIMeJM1C_v82rHiomH3ttcsYMcF1H6cBB_2yA/s1604/Northampton%20train%20Mills%20River%20from%20South%20St%20Bridge%20daylight%20%20a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1604" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wpJTpHQdbV92R_jA0fIp526LM3hUfTYb6oG4c_noneXtD-v4xlNyBzKNrMj-44xA0EOXEZOIB3VaZ251FdZw8JzRIe7kIosN0AWwQBhKznk9t7vowiRsUgS9FDJqLgD5wRuFrV5Q74marjOe3ELcuJIMeJM1C_v82rHiomH3ttcsYMcF1H6cBB_2yA/w400-h251/Northampton%20train%20Mills%20River%20from%20South%20St%20Bridge%20daylight%20%20a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here are two views of Northampton, Massachusetts, and the railroad running along the Mill River. The view is from the South Street Bridge. The above postcard is a daylight photo, and below we have the same scene artistically tinted for night. Both cards were published by the Metropolitan News Company in Boston and likely printed in Germany, about 1906.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7dhk9DK5XMbh14TNOJkv2om6-OM4qWVCxN3uMOaK01TQCUKOqrrCyyk8B22ZLiXO4CstpMXmlfy_SsQbtAlWUEMICT8lUOaBJax-vy8JzHYt5pkscFwCXgWlqBmsuL7gfH1lm0pIIvgDZp7V84zkStbzWsF0tm-tSE8SgWWhSIMSYzvlOZLBn1JHPA/s1596/Northampton%20train%20Mills%20River%20from%20South%20St%20Bridge%20night%20%20a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1596" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7dhk9DK5XMbh14TNOJkv2om6-OM4qWVCxN3uMOaK01TQCUKOqrrCyyk8B22ZLiXO4CstpMXmlfy_SsQbtAlWUEMICT8lUOaBJax-vy8JzHYt5pkscFwCXgWlqBmsuL7gfH1lm0pIIvgDZp7V84zkStbzWsF0tm-tSE8SgWWhSIMSYzvlOZLBn1JHPA/w400-h239/Northampton%20train%20Mills%20River%20from%20South%20St%20Bridge%20night%20%20a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">******************</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p></div><p><br /> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-21996578670244665252023-04-18T07:50:00.000-04:002023-04-18T07:50:58.287-04:00Christian Science Church building - Springfield, Massachusetts<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Gq0q6qQNfvMpwTCu-1wi3k7YmaIUdCuf3n30d5Fvm-FdXLPF3LL6RKK_Z3Gb0FEXrpsXhDPXJeqyar9AtsRl70AMqIIOohhsjm3wLXsNT02B9OSX04QTY0zsaWl1OXp2IQbuEkx66BkQJ3Ljv5NivkCVCAAe_Rc9fWhDJuDs6R6Dh_hpG6UCXRQszw/s1620/Postcard%20-%20Springfield,%20Mass.%20-%20Christian%20Science%20Church%20a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1620" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Gq0q6qQNfvMpwTCu-1wi3k7YmaIUdCuf3n30d5Fvm-FdXLPF3LL6RKK_Z3Gb0FEXrpsXhDPXJeqyar9AtsRl70AMqIIOohhsjm3wLXsNT02B9OSX04QTY0zsaWl1OXp2IQbuEkx66BkQJ3Ljv5NivkCVCAAe_Rc9fWhDJuDs6R6Dh_hpG6UCXRQszw/w400-h256/Postcard%20-%20Springfield,%20Mass.%20-%20Christian%20Science%20Church%20a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Christian Science Church of Springfield, Massachusetts, stood on State Street in this 1930s-era colored postcard. The postcard was published by the Springfield News Company.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The congregation merged with another in Longmeadow sometime around 2000. The site is now the Progressive Community Baptist Church.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-2759909136921171062023-04-11T09:25:00.000-04:002023-04-11T09:25:11.047-04:00The small town of big practical jokes - MEET ME IN NUTHATCH<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TUyXPaVoHpKL25i4xGZy3_CQRCAfmw3WkW1wFhPnesfl5dqugFJN-WoHPpEonC8LTNrMxRh57leNlmSC8IOL2wlqn1B9lnkvJEe0GsbXWpB4r11ow9etXUg8ewFAGqbL7xA8ho5DfvlRhU4HriKd94nUKn2x1Chcavdn0Zyt9ouyCZWEdx5Zj1OiGQ/s965/Nuthatch%20ad%20image%201.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="965" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TUyXPaVoHpKL25i4xGZy3_CQRCAfmw3WkW1wFhPnesfl5dqugFJN-WoHPpEonC8LTNrMxRh57leNlmSC8IOL2wlqn1B9lnkvJEe0GsbXWpB4r11ow9etXUg8ewFAGqbL7xA8ho5DfvlRhU4HriKd94nUKn2x1Chcavdn0Zyt9ouyCZWEdx5Zj1OiGQ/w311-h400/Nuthatch%20ad%20image%201.png" width="311" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><p>Here's a bit about my novel, <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3UpOhu0" target="_blank">Meet Me in Nuthatch</a></b></i>:</p>A whimsical, poignant tale about a practical joke-turned publicity stunt that fires up the small town of Nuthatch, Massachusetts, in a desperate attempt to attract tourists.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">Christmas tree farmer Everett Campbell proposes turning the clock back to 1904 and reviving the town’s cozy past, an idea he gets from watching his young daughter’s favorite classic movie, <i>Meet Me in St. Louis</i>. She is thrilled at being allowed to dress up and pretend, but not everyone in town is enchanted with the nostalgic promotion—including Everett’s moody teenage son.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">The media, and the tourists, do come, but the scheme also attracts a large theme park corporation that wants to buy Nuthatch 1904.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">Everett now stands to lose his town in a way he never imagined, and his neighbors are divided on which alternate future to choose.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">A local drug dealer, Everett’s boyhood enemy, may hold the future of the entire town in his hands unless Everett can pull off one of his most spectacular, and dangerous, practical jokes.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Get your copy here at <a href="https://amzn.to/3UpOhu0" target="_blank">Amazon</a> in print and eBook, or from <a href="https://books2read.com/u/b62B26" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, and a variety of other online shops</a>.<br /></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-45370038165768269172023-03-28T09:04:00.000-04:002023-03-28T09:04:24.105-04:00Four aerial views of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1920s<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwko8SoNAnDpQmD15qM6duQOWutA0YjJhKpetBA_ySS8WFGn2mezZXekyPQwAt4B5y9_ehc30bB_-8o9mqlyZL8Q_RxiQnJVDtrbpdVOPX9I49iC19SUBZ1dscfjaXUOXdkGdB3dwR35FhFyyDUTyW3P84oI1zqyFEYP2qhmDkpMXnaMmPp6Fi7i1uA/s1624/Springfield%20postcard%20Barney%20Residence%20and%20Tomb,%20Forest%20Park%20-%20Aerial%20Service,%20Hartford,%20Conn%20%20possibly%201920s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1624" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwko8SoNAnDpQmD15qM6duQOWutA0YjJhKpetBA_ySS8WFGn2mezZXekyPQwAt4B5y9_ehc30bB_-8o9mqlyZL8Q_RxiQnJVDtrbpdVOPX9I49iC19SUBZ1dscfjaXUOXdkGdB3dwR35FhFyyDUTyW3P84oI1zqyFEYP2qhmDkpMXnaMmPp6Fi7i1uA/w400-h255/Springfield%20postcard%20Barney%20Residence%20and%20Tomb,%20Forest%20Park%20-%20Aerial%20Service,%20Hartford,%20Conn%20%20possibly%201920s.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />Here are four aerial views of Springfield, Massachusetts, all probably taken at the same time around the mid-to-late 1920s. They are from a set of postcards published by the Aerial Service of Hartford, Connecticut. Above, starting from the southernmost section of the city, we have the Everett Barney mansion, estate, mausoleum and grounds of Forest Park. The Connecticut River is on the far upper right.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAk5fGHQ-0CLHwFNYEZVCA8Wv_yPD5nD8AtOb3KJGmUDULmyOrkZnEscHb_K0LJcMT2pCXeaZj_1qH9qwVXT_uuqD53VHY18xPNNJ5HMM8289KNjVSA4jSljUTKiX8hfXQA6eeCH8LS5TJNftOE0PocOmmmIP1nIW8aqYxvshLLWellfQN3j2ePCIpQ/s1632/Springfield%20postcard%20The%20Educational%20Center%20-%20quadrangle%20-%20Aerial%20Service,%20Hartford,%20Conn%20%20possibly%201920s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1632" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAk5fGHQ-0CLHwFNYEZVCA8Wv_yPD5nD8AtOb3KJGmUDULmyOrkZnEscHb_K0LJcMT2pCXeaZj_1qH9qwVXT_uuqD53VHY18xPNNJ5HMM8289KNjVSA4jSljUTKiX8hfXQA6eeCH8LS5TJNftOE0PocOmmmIP1nIW8aqYxvshLLWellfQN3j2ePCIpQ/w400-h255/Springfield%20postcard%20The%20Educational%20Center%20-%20quadrangle%20-%20Aerial%20Service,%20Hartford,%20Conn%20%20possibly%201920s.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Next, we have the lower State Street area, specifically focused on what the postcard publisher calls The Educational Center, but which we have come to know as The Quadrangle. The library can be seen, as well as the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, The Springfield Science Museum, and the building which currently houses The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss. In this photo, the Museum of Fine Arts is absent, as that was not built until the 1930s. Also absent is the Lyman and Merrie Woods Museum of Springfield History, which was not constructed until 2009.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">St. Michael's Cathedral can be spotted, the Springfield Armory, Classical High School, and S<a href="https://newenglandtravels.blogspot.com/2023/01/springfield-technical-high-school.html" target="_blank">pringfield Technical High School, which we covered in this previous post</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC70anrsHdgA1z1U2HzfqaDwUUWgLO3P6DkKEGWGhsfw0vMYSl0oxqjt08xfVHvkZQYgIOBcgjO3twTK13C9XqnJAJV-GxGsJnLLi0nbiWre29-ldHtp1E6R16QvUpnhjVGDV8-CZHlKlKHb0dlrg2Fso_p4onY4TWwxS5MtPVejgR0fg1p0zBKe6MGg/s1628/Springfield%20postcard%20Main%20Street%20Looking%20North%20-%20Aerial%20Service,%20Hartford,%20Conn%20%20possibly%201920s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1628" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC70anrsHdgA1z1U2HzfqaDwUUWgLO3P6DkKEGWGhsfw0vMYSl0oxqjt08xfVHvkZQYgIOBcgjO3twTK13C9XqnJAJV-GxGsJnLLi0nbiWre29-ldHtp1E6R16QvUpnhjVGDV8-CZHlKlKHb0dlrg2Fso_p4onY4TWwxS5MtPVejgR0fg1p0zBKe6MGg/w400-h255/Springfield%20postcard%20Main%20Street%20Looking%20North%20-%20Aerial%20Service,%20Hartford,%20Conn%20%20possibly%201920s.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The next view shows us the city's downtown with Court Square, the City Hall, Campanile, and Symphony Hall prominent in the photo. The new Memorial Bridge, completed in 1922 spans the Connecticut River on the left. Horizontal near the top of the photo we have the rail line and train station. This view gives us a good look at Springfield before Route 91.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCHxaNXhyGK8ng6b48wu9wO_Nd4zMgOg6e3Y_UagNTGX-PAZQIYPFrpxE27K1htV_FfTr23iyy8PGbUpwqYdjjmZcH44lcuHR0asifYoyM3d4PhQxbj7oJG8tPGCi5UGw8dg3maHGqK57u0mhQ3SXY18dhqkgTOmjkbenQZ2bkdFVCNQ5sy8SEROW1A/s1652/Springfield%20postcard%20The%20New%20Springfield%20Hospital%20-%20Aerial%20Service,%20Hartford,%20Conn%20%20possibly%201920s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1652" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCHxaNXhyGK8ng6b48wu9wO_Nd4zMgOg6e3Y_UagNTGX-PAZQIYPFrpxE27K1htV_FfTr23iyy8PGbUpwqYdjjmZcH44lcuHR0asifYoyM3d4PhQxbj7oJG8tPGCi5UGw8dg3maHGqK57u0mhQ3SXY18dhqkgTOmjkbenQZ2bkdFVCNQ5sy8SEROW1A/w400-h250/Springfield%20postcard%20The%20New%20Springfield%20Hospital%20-%20Aerial%20Service,%20Hartford,%20Conn%20%20possibly%201920s.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Our final view is of the northern section of the city and the expanse of what was the new Springfield Hospital, what would later become the main building of Baystate Medical Center.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-90570554102994646992023-03-21T09:54:00.002-04:002023-03-21T09:54:38.142-04:00Northampton, Mass.: the setting for By Your Leave, Sir - The Story of a Wave<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtQ3dq2YQS2CvCqL9Sb6pxrUUeqQRiPJmjdu5z8dwxRIAf-iGUIVIFCxSAwP6lQAA7_Rlq2YQerLZ4ypx2WMDaGmpxR5x_JuUDbNRBH4m7zFz_GJCx_kjV_o0hfDugLdo4epIXaOL_BxFDjt1Snn8UKU3O4A9I3AurOHBcU4X7_5oHAMfR1cD_rmlCg/s1596/Northampton%20Smith%20College%20Capen%20School%20Faunce%20House%201914,%20Hugh%20C.%20Leighton%20Co%20Portland%20ME%20side%20a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1596" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtQ3dq2YQS2CvCqL9Sb6pxrUUeqQRiPJmjdu5z8dwxRIAf-iGUIVIFCxSAwP6lQAA7_Rlq2YQerLZ4ypx2WMDaGmpxR5x_JuUDbNRBH4m7zFz_GJCx_kjV_o0hfDugLdo4epIXaOL_BxFDjt1Snn8UKU3O4A9I3AurOHBcU4X7_5oHAMfR1cD_rmlCg/w400-h253/Northampton%20Smith%20College%20Capen%20School%20Faunce%20House%201914,%20Hugh%20C.%20Leighton%20Co%20Portland%20ME%20side%20a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Smith College - Capen School Faunce House, 1914 postcard</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">During World
War II, Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, was a training camp for
WAVES.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story of female midshipmen is
recounted by one of its graduates, Lieutenant (J.G.) Helen Hull Jacobs in <i>By
Your Leave, Sir – The Story of a Wave</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJ_jZEdLX9vWdAw8HA-mgzhjFQXZ81LIzV_wk0sJ20hsrk3fODGcEP0d4UBVvAjZBNPnmJ_p4yUWr7DXb9tlJ7_KmAW8Ep1kujH9I3qvSp7_eVxqkUa3b3sYSmtPYlQe0sW8oH_M8v4msOvDGnNTYU0tpvMElzeZ891wK5CQ1aVanFAmD6A4DQ_x-eQ/s398/By%20Your%20Leave,%20Sir%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="290" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJ_jZEdLX9vWdAw8HA-mgzhjFQXZ81LIzV_wk0sJ20hsrk3fODGcEP0d4UBVvAjZBNPnmJ_p4yUWr7DXb9tlJ7_KmAW8Ep1kujH9I3qvSp7_eVxqkUa3b3sYSmtPYlQe0sW8oH_M8v4msOvDGnNTYU0tpvMElzeZ891wK5CQ1aVanFAmD6A4DQ_x-eQ/s320/By%20Your%20Leave,%20Sir%20cover.jpg" width="233" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />The book is actually a novel, published in 1943, but as Lt. Jacobs was then in the Public Relations Office of
the Naval Reserve Training School in the Bronx, one may assume that writing this
book based on her own experience was likely part of her duties in public
relations for the WAVES.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though it tells
of a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>troubled young woman named Becky
McLeod, who loses her fiancé in a London air raid and seeks a place in the war
effort, recounts her challenges and new friendships made, the book serves as a
concise outline of the requirements for a woman to serve in the Navy and what
she might expect to encounter in Midshipman’s School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WAVES is an acronym for Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency Service and was part of the U.S. Navy Reserves.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvhu1hb8hPWrMXmkh-AjmqffT6e51E__q1jBVXBpNR_1AHcxVG0Q9VaaJwBYVefDvej-MMopQezev1RnnALyQvFzEoUGD9cfz2ukHLr3Snq5H1AmdL1bjlJQ9ftcfZNk5O1UAN-BBtpHQV6MveuTs15_Z6_ZnnxV5UH7ctrzfkzlfVvpkEEcuWg3G9Gw/s1588/Northampton%20Smith%20College%20postcard%20Assembly%20Hall%20and%20buildings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1588" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvhu1hb8hPWrMXmkh-AjmqffT6e51E__q1jBVXBpNR_1AHcxVG0Q9VaaJwBYVefDvej-MMopQezev1RnnALyQvFzEoUGD9cfz2ukHLr3Snq5H1AmdL1bjlJQ9ftcfZNk5O1UAN-BBtpHQV6MveuTs15_Z6_ZnnxV5UH7ctrzfkzlfVvpkEEcuWg3G9Gw/w400-h259/Northampton%20Smith%20College%20postcard%20Assembly%20Hall%20and%20buildings.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Smith College Assembly Hall and buildings, postcard, c. 1905</span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Smith College, one of the preeminent women’s colleges in the
country, became figuratively the Navy’s U.S.S. Northampton, and the women were
trained in military history, military courtesy, discipline, physical training,
and classroom education in many subjects.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">When they graduated, they would be officers, the first branch of the
military in which women would receive full military status.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YEZ8yCA2-H8otg7sM58-pG20vog0UHaYm_4wJkHX2w4qiFJYj-XG3SeJdN-bGbvaVK9_yTFQFMxbUWngV336K7iKvY7wGAs_FjVWexkHGxRJ1VOWQTO1JE2V7cmYLlWYYizUxqM7v2wu61SYR5shXzpSlXXJfVR0Hd3QqoMmBoh5RuXAyeJ8Q1KbuQ/s1624/Northampton%20Smith%20College%20Capen%20House%20made%20in%20Germany%20postcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1624" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YEZ8yCA2-H8otg7sM58-pG20vog0UHaYm_4wJkHX2w4qiFJYj-XG3SeJdN-bGbvaVK9_yTFQFMxbUWngV336K7iKvY7wGAs_FjVWexkHGxRJ1VOWQTO1JE2V7cmYLlWYYizUxqM7v2wu61SYR5shXzpSlXXJfVR0Hd3QqoMmBoh5RuXAyeJ8Q1KbuQ/w400-h261/Northampton%20Smith%20College%20Capen%20House%20made%20in%20Germany%20postcard.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Smith College, Capen House, postcard c. 1905</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">The notion of women serving in the military was a controversial
one, but the book’s title, <i>By Your Leave, Sir</i>, is a reference to the
purpose of establishing this branch of military service for women: to relieve
male sailors and officers for sea duty.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">The women were assigned to replace men in clerical positions, but also served
as aviation instructors, intelligence agents, scientists, and engineers. Over
100,000 WAVES served in World War II.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx9nU2ifOGWRYE_zl7HciNaCtXzkQ16V0b_Xtl3x0k4ZkG51GvhankHkmM_XJNans7dDsUMksQm_96uA8kqH06XGbig_cduiDXEox9zzTdA3PNHNUn_8L_9Vru3NJqiRX9lGfLyqHBwlHga9H5a6763PK0GEcFc1660YgcrDtGVT0iqwGEd92RgtagnQ/s1389/Northampton%20Smith%20College%20Faunce%20House%20Capen's%20School%201907%20side%20a%20%20CROPPED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1389" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx9nU2ifOGWRYE_zl7HciNaCtXzkQ16V0b_Xtl3x0k4ZkG51GvhankHkmM_XJNans7dDsUMksQm_96uA8kqH06XGbig_cduiDXEox9zzTdA3PNHNUn_8L_9Vru3NJqiRX9lGfLyqHBwlHga9H5a6763PK0GEcFc1660YgcrDtGVT0iqwGEd92RgtagnQ/w400-h295/Northampton%20Smith%20College%20Faunce%20House%20Capen's%20School%201907%20side%20a%20%20CROPPED.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Faunce House, Capen's School, postcard 1907</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the novel, we follow Becky and the other midshipmen
through locations familiar to those living in western Massachusetts: on the
grounds of Smith College and in Northampton.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">They attend classes at Faunce Hall, are billeted at Capen House and the
Hotel Northampton, and Wiggins Tavern is frequented on their off hours.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Filene’s in Boston tailors their uniforms,
and there are trips to The Whale Inn in Goshen, and they go to a Red Cross
Rally at the Springfield Auditorium.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">Though most of the characters in the story are fictitious, real-life
figures such as Lt. Elizabeth Crandall also appear in the story.<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzp-a3_4IlkJz0AHXiWbiV-IaAdR6SZUFHTO8fge2ZlISu6U0tlE1mIl3uHXgFj8_VtTO2_lj997JhdHh7mMiVDCTFTG0cKr9YBz0Awkzi0Wf5w-fwBfVCs5U3NIftXQEQvus6zT_sIRMD5DuRXpsAoXiQf8XZ5-3k5P6fBTh-_IFZqzvySIUTAftZ5w/s1632/Northampton%20-%20Hotel%20Northampton%20and%20Wiggins%20Old%20Tavern%20postcard%201920s%20c..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1632" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzp-a3_4IlkJz0AHXiWbiV-IaAdR6SZUFHTO8fge2ZlISu6U0tlE1mIl3uHXgFj8_VtTO2_lj997JhdHh7mMiVDCTFTG0cKr9YBz0Awkzi0Wf5w-fwBfVCs5U3NIftXQEQvus6zT_sIRMD5DuRXpsAoXiQf8XZ5-3k5P6fBTh-_IFZqzvySIUTAftZ5w/w400-h256/Northampton%20-%20Hotel%20Northampton%20and%20Wiggins%20Old%20Tavern%20postcard%201920s%20c..jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hotel Northampton and Wiggins Tavern postcard c. 1920s</span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The novel is an interesting look at the life of women in
Navy training at this time, and also for a glimpse at Northampton as it served
this unique position in America’s war effort.<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhluV6Bf2akgNq0Tj308YoWq0CwkP9fb2m_o6OIQ00StQRNtyNn2xtXGCVlmqMviVAEI23qj6u7ID5AY8HuYTgN0l3SdPvkVs-61CLHyvJvBBxG8cT6Nnt0iYGdK8tNhBsKZIG-PLxe_w7EoG9tUoJgoUuinyK-XaSrQ9hPRcsorOTBeiJjbvmDnAaLHA/s1632/Northampton%20Wiggins%20Tavern%20interior%20side%20a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1632" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhluV6Bf2akgNq0Tj308YoWq0CwkP9fb2m_o6OIQ00StQRNtyNn2xtXGCVlmqMviVAEI23qj6u7ID5AY8HuYTgN0l3SdPvkVs-61CLHyvJvBBxG8cT6Nnt0iYGdK8tNhBsKZIG-PLxe_w7EoG9tUoJgoUuinyK-XaSrQ9hPRcsorOTBeiJjbvmDnAaLHA/w400-h253/Northampton%20Wiggins%20Tavern%20interior%20side%20a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGdBCo9Ee2gFOkrMv4SK9J5JV-R3m8lylGwmSYhnizI7LCd4JOh28ndJsJU4mW3ULWayQGpndQrm-kh86NQiqtooMYCekaNie0KLnuffv88HZjQ5ekYK8ypsk3OmIHFK4E9kFkttK_j27I_O_xeOvS0Rd1KUZs_Ib55Ho8FmL7eG5-0VHXz9ANK4IcQ/s2261/By%20Your%20Leave,%20Sir%20rear%20cover%20author%20portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2261" data-original-width="1550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGdBCo9Ee2gFOkrMv4SK9J5JV-R3m8lylGwmSYhnizI7LCd4JOh28ndJsJU4mW3ULWayQGpndQrm-kh86NQiqtooMYCekaNie0KLnuffv88HZjQ5ekYK8ypsk3OmIHFK4E9kFkttK_j27I_O_xeOvS0Rd1KUZs_Ib55Ho8FmL7eG5-0VHXz9ANK4IcQ/s320/By%20Your%20Leave,%20Sir%20rear%20cover%20author%20portrait.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><br />The author, Helen Hull Jacobs, had her own interesting
story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was one of several books,
both fiction and non-fiction she wrote, after having had a very successful
career as a professional tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She won several U.S. National championships,
Wimbledon, and nine Grand Slam titles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1962.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was a farmer, designed sportswear, and
her Naval career culminated by achieving the rank of commander while serving in
United States Navy intelligence in World War II, one of only five women in the
Navy to achieve the rank of commander during the war.</span><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sources: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Asal, Alex. <a href="Learning to ‘Be Navy’ | Smith College" target="_blank">"Learning to be Navy," Campus Life, June 11, 2019</a>, Smith College website. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Jacobs, Helen Hull. <i>By Your Leave, Sir - The Story of a Wave</i>. (NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1943)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>New York Times</i>, "</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Helen Jacobs,
Tennis Champion in the 1930's, Dies at 88" obituary by Susan B. Adams, June 4, 1997.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-84627712576288169642023-03-06T07:20:00.000-05:002023-03-06T07:20:39.315-05:00Wesson's Home Becomes a Hospital<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKOEBvXwMhTSYZFRFu8F6bVMv8PjXc1F19UZoson0eiA5JVdgwq2AqYEQsFKdtfDVeMl3_HQEXkhFxipj0mPgQIaNwaDr0v4ARN5l3hElkLIpi24dGkRZZFRqvq5LLiWTjeulQ_k-nEs_rGkW3p3-KsYH3RXxdtTZAzJ34ppJopCM7N-0wYyc40uVNg/s1608/Spfld%20%20%20Wesson%20Memorial%20Hospt%20poscard%20penny%20%20Geo.%20S.%20Graves%20publisher%20Splf%20Mass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1608" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKOEBvXwMhTSYZFRFu8F6bVMv8PjXc1F19UZoson0eiA5JVdgwq2AqYEQsFKdtfDVeMl3_HQEXkhFxipj0mPgQIaNwaDr0v4ARN5l3hElkLIpi24dGkRZZFRqvq5LLiWTjeulQ_k-nEs_rGkW3p3-KsYH3RXxdtTZAzJ34ppJopCM7N-0wYyc40uVNg/w400-h251/Spfld%20%20%20Wesson%20Memorial%20Hospt%20poscard%20penny%20%20Geo.%20S.%20Graves%20publisher%20Splf%20Mass.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The home in the foreground of this postcard belonged to inventor and firearms designer Daniel Baird Wesson of Springfield, Massachusetts. With Horace Smith, Mr. Wesson formed both the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and Smith & Wesson firearms manufacturing companies. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The house at 132 High Street, Springfield, was donated by Mr. Wesson in 1906, in memory of his late wife, to become the Hampden Homeopathic Hospital. It became Wesson Memorial Hospital later that year when Wesson himself passed on. It was a 30-bed facility, but Wesson Hospital enlarged with a further endowment from his estate to build a new 100-bed unit at 140 High Street, as well as a new 25-bed maternity hospital in 1908.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The old Wesson home that served as the original Wesson Memorial Hospital no longer stands, and what became Wesson Women's eventually merged with Springfield Hospital and became Baystate Medical Center.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The penny-postcard was published by George S. Graves of Springfield, Mass.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-5456799849102621512023-02-28T08:47:00.000-05:002023-02-28T08:47:02.732-05:00President Calvin Coolidge's homes in Northampton, Massachusetts<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOysxK7XW9Al26R3oeBzDCKYiJH6ynRYuXphTUErtTO4TeMQEOR0jOv_Ocg6iy6lamrgVBNB7S9ckaAlJKYEGMpPOfZO6j7Wc5Ud4J4kAHvLBqpFfZQV5YC_N353--P7ABLh6hctXTxgCj8HnhLmnHngJnpZXYNbnEEoJsD895AHxXrVF9kzeSY-Jsmw/s1636/Calvin%20Coolidge%20home%20Northampton%20CW%20Hughes%20&%20Co%20Inc%20Mechanicville%20NY%201940s%20CT%20American%20Art%20colored.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1636" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOysxK7XW9Al26R3oeBzDCKYiJH6ynRYuXphTUErtTO4TeMQEOR0jOv_Ocg6iy6lamrgVBNB7S9ckaAlJKYEGMpPOfZO6j7Wc5Ud4J4kAHvLBqpFfZQV5YC_N353--P7ABLh6hctXTxgCj8HnhLmnHngJnpZXYNbnEEoJsD895AHxXrVF9kzeSY-Jsmw/w400-h253/Calvin%20Coolidge%20home%20Northampton%20CW%20Hughes%20&%20Co%20Inc%20Mechanicville%20NY%201940s%20CT%20American%20Art%20colored.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />Calvin Coolidge lived in Northampton through much of his political career, and here we have in postcard images his two homes.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">First, the duplex on Massasoit Street where he and his wife Grace moved after their marriage in 1905. Coolidge, a graduate of Amherst College and native of Vermont, came here to open his law practice. His wife Grace had been a teacher at the Clarke School for the Deaf. They rented the left side of this duplex and raised their two sons here. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Hpw_PT_JtwvYvy2FCKZgH0KYFY7H3Xp0S0otMfA2FocZ8_ava0Dh0fWCJxb1FFpw5AMP2E_IlWKUbTIW01a5Xfq1EmXss3_qXErJNlnYaiqrvRewZxz4EEpM8G9cdB8tdydBQmf3GmExlH00n2Xhss2cC6zPCboT7tkGNxZg0PrW1fVecqtLwzzAAA/s1632/Calvin%20Coolidge%20home%20Northampton%20SCott%20USA%20postcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1632" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Hpw_PT_JtwvYvy2FCKZgH0KYFY7H3Xp0S0otMfA2FocZ8_ava0Dh0fWCJxb1FFpw5AMP2E_IlWKUbTIW01a5Xfq1EmXss3_qXErJNlnYaiqrvRewZxz4EEpM8G9cdB8tdydBQmf3GmExlH00n2Xhss2cC6zPCboT7tkGNxZg0PrW1fVecqtLwzzAAA/w400-h254/Calvin%20Coolidge%20home%20Northampton%20SCott%20USA%20postcard.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Coolidges continued to make this their home through the next couple of decades as "Silent Cal" entered politics and served as Mayor of Northampton, Governor of Massachusetts, Vice President of the United States under President Warren G. Harding, and then assuming the presidency in 1923 after Harding's death in office. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1cugSL_WiKp_q_snDZ7rjjrraDAJfSGQqCM5_vfH_Iant0pBjcR0IcuNYO_RtwLaHW-wiliP94PkwEuIJ8VGDBntQaq53WCPc1lDq3lPRSjphYXkvV3SyOHsFQXcvHuad_-IgrJw91mgz75MjOkViR3uOVlRDq3dr1uQB4GrChJFMReVhncnb1YM_A/s1640/Calvin%20Coolidge%20home%20Northampton%20CW%20Hughes%20&%20Co%20Inc%20Mechanicville%20NY%201940s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1640" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1cugSL_WiKp_q_snDZ7rjjrraDAJfSGQqCM5_vfH_Iant0pBjcR0IcuNYO_RtwLaHW-wiliP94PkwEuIJ8VGDBntQaq53WCPc1lDq3lPRSjphYXkvV3SyOHsFQXcvHuad_-IgrJw91mgz75MjOkViR3uOVlRDq3dr1uQB4GrChJFMReVhncnb1YM_A/w400-h254/Calvin%20Coolidge%20home%20Northampton%20CW%20Hughes%20&%20Co%20Inc%20Mechanicville%20NY%201940s.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Beeches</div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Coolidge's presidency ended in 1929 ("I do not choose to run.") and in 1930, he moved his home from the house on Massasoit Street to a new house called "The Beeches" on Hampton Terrace, for more privacy. The tourists gawking at his rented duplex got to be a bit too much.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qdtroowoj0nnvgu_DD5CSJZG6gwiphUl6iwWooH52meKwz5IQRdWDZnOSOy2L26Lu7CL6VXDV4Z-WWcMeA30rSqv8R_wFHBD9dHP9S2FKURg3ghG4ShQCgohb9e8FcuUQgX0IG5ZUDYsI_AtFodYbrcXrhE4RUtucTNQslxbXb1eEDHP0JZaxpgwlA/s1632/Calvin%20Coolidge%20home%20Northampton%20interior%20living%20room%20The%20Beeches%20Scott%20photo%20made%20in%20Germany.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1632" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qdtroowoj0nnvgu_DD5CSJZG6gwiphUl6iwWooH52meKwz5IQRdWDZnOSOy2L26Lu7CL6VXDV4Z-WWcMeA30rSqv8R_wFHBD9dHP9S2FKURg3ghG4ShQCgohb9e8FcuUQgX0IG5ZUDYsI_AtFodYbrcXrhE4RUtucTNQslxbXb1eEDHP0JZaxpgwlA/w400-h255/Calvin%20Coolidge%20home%20Northampton%20interior%20living%20room%20The%20Beeches%20Scott%20photo%20made%20in%20Germany.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Calvin Coolidge died at "The Beeches" in 1933, at the age of 60. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-55678934209467116902023-02-21T07:34:00.000-05:002023-02-21T07:34:12.471-05:00First anniversary - Slava Ukraini<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPa99-fU9xKthsDqRyRsk5oKOLzu-svXy50PXi7Jlsmvuar33F73CN_8OX7H2daKWz3KwBv7C5QWdGuBuav4cwg9Ph7j_uljXrqj2OfRhoZWkqzUsU8a6N2Rs_nZGOdZM-ashNQBzWHtqisFW6hYYOL3o1i4T9ciN9TfAb5nNjLBbhCJQN_y9Uoau4A/s1200/Ukranian%20flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPa99-fU9xKthsDqRyRsk5oKOLzu-svXy50PXi7Jlsmvuar33F73CN_8OX7H2daKWz3KwBv7C5QWdGuBuav4cwg9Ph7j_uljXrqj2OfRhoZWkqzUsU8a6N2Rs_nZGOdZM-ashNQBzWHtqisFW6hYYOL3o1i4T9ciN9TfAb5nNjLBbhCJQN_y9Uoau4A/w400-h266/Ukranian%20flag.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Approaching one year since the start of World War III (whether we acknowledge it or not). </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Invasion and atrocities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Putin's Russia has committed mass kidnapping of children, mass torture, extensive war crimes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Putin's Russia is currently committing genocide.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Support Ukraine in every way possible. We should join the fight against fascism wherever it exists.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Support freedom and democracy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Slava Ukraini!</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-11219201512829910762023-01-31T10:01:00.000-05:002023-01-31T10:01:00.016-05:00Upcoming talk on Mt. Tom Playhouse - Holyoke, Massachusetts<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht2PS1z4X4XPelsn24bYEM9z95-0RxHVpCVin471TH1oTk0j0Bigt9vtnzwep7B_UYEZmCsgyAQCKB2l5Dkabxjdo9nmmERsWVK9sEVuzpaJmOwWsaXsGKXCLYFvkjLxbPF4MdbuGmuVHCKl58Vww7llRw1CiizsEe3FMO6HqPHFNuzY7sYCvbSpu7hw/s5823/Comedy%20and%20Tragedy%20on%20the%20Mountain%20-%20cover%20%20%20600%20dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5823" data-original-width="4500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht2PS1z4X4XPelsn24bYEM9z95-0RxHVpCVin471TH1oTk0j0Bigt9vtnzwep7B_UYEZmCsgyAQCKB2l5Dkabxjdo9nmmERsWVK9sEVuzpaJmOwWsaXsGKXCLYFvkjLxbPF4MdbuGmuVHCKl58Vww7llRw1CiizsEe3FMO6HqPHFNuzY7sYCvbSpu7hw/w309-h400/Comedy%20and%20Tragedy%20on%20the%20Mountain%20-%20cover%20%20%20600%20dpi.jpg" width="309" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll be giving on a talk on my book, <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" target="_blank">Comedy and Tragedy on theMountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Massachusetts</a></i>, </b>at
the South Hadley Senior Center, 45 Dayton Street, South Hadley, Mass., next Tuesday,
February 7, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. A slide presentation of several photos from
the book will accompany the talk.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The book covers the history of summer theatre
on Mt. Tom from 1895 to 1965.
Many stars of stage and screen, and many
newcomers who would one day become stars, performed over several decades on Mt.
Tom.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-85039377002907502172023-01-24T08:40:00.000-05:002023-01-24T08:40:20.557-05:00Springfield Technical High School - Springfield, Massachusetts<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWfUyPnMybtLKvB9bBVyFkdg853w3xDGx5StjlZvVybwAW4eLyYUENhEXyrzW4ctaYAkKvrz_Jc26obgKy0Pzpcl_OYs2RknhdLVu2OrunDCzr1VlCyMpFjtqJ1SR-14d6ht6LNuUAUJBNplrSw6gwJd_vvDCpWcYgnukEMYB7O7QMd03qBiIY-Mgkyg/s1584/Spfl%20%20Technical%20HS%20postcard%20Mason%20Bros%20&%20Co%20Boston%20publisher,%20printed%20in%20Germany.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1016" data-original-width="1584" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWfUyPnMybtLKvB9bBVyFkdg853w3xDGx5StjlZvVybwAW4eLyYUENhEXyrzW4ctaYAkKvrz_Jc26obgKy0Pzpcl_OYs2RknhdLVu2OrunDCzr1VlCyMpFjtqJ1SR-14d6ht6LNuUAUJBNplrSw6gwJd_vvDCpWcYgnukEMYB7O7QMd03qBiIY-Mgkyg/w400-h256/Spfl%20%20Technical%20HS%20postcard%20Mason%20Bros%20&%20Co%20Boston%20publisher,%20printed%20in%20Germany.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here are some postcard views of the former Springfield (Mass) Technical High School. Built in 1905 on Elliot Street, it served the city for some 81 years before it was closed in 1986.</span><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFi6J-7Bw-sxWd1pOiW3PMLW7ho2uRv7Ly7iD4lYkb8AvH6LJOc9IPjl4__nYWH86VpJNvyUtvkWjAdD-YvOPHRgktBVa_3bpn6_8NRibKKonfawZInWHCNLVgufU8vM2mp4_YWu3eV5Oo9WT31Vch4ZS-EPjiYNeaLyQ_hHK88d22s2BZfL2ACSqKQ/s1576/Springfield%20Technical%20HS%20postmark%20June%2023%201910%20company%20unknown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1576" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFi6J-7Bw-sxWd1pOiW3PMLW7ho2uRv7Ly7iD4lYkb8AvH6LJOc9IPjl4__nYWH86VpJNvyUtvkWjAdD-YvOPHRgktBVa_3bpn6_8NRibKKonfawZInWHCNLVgufU8vM2mp4_YWu3eV5Oo9WT31Vch4ZS-EPjiYNeaLyQ_hHK88d22s2BZfL2ACSqKQ/w400-h255/Springfield%20Technical%20HS%20postmark%20June%2023%201910%20company%20unknown.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This above is was postmarked June 1910, probably sent as a keepsake of a graduation ceremony.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFni8oj4F1cXiCdvoZDodH61km6yF2lup0TsZgBWcjMIhUwmTvJZ1nfFaf1fUO89FsOUxmgj0tkZlG3wTGprL5G_wDsqUE9bcqseNfzpr48GYWZyx_cpx0UhHTmKYc8Cv5ywSOkMELlIeRypipHeZaHU-f754oyk4GxbDlEn6ldxYNIroA6H7VZ8y2Q/s1560/Springfield%20Technical%20HS%20postmark%201915%20aUllman%20Mfg%20Co,%20NY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1560" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFni8oj4F1cXiCdvoZDodH61km6yF2lup0TsZgBWcjMIhUwmTvJZ1nfFaf1fUO89FsOUxmgj0tkZlG3wTGprL5G_wDsqUE9bcqseNfzpr48GYWZyx_cpx0UhHTmKYc8Cv5ywSOkMELlIeRypipHeZaHU-f754oyk4GxbDlEn6ldxYNIroA6H7VZ8y2Q/w400-h249/Springfield%20Technical%20HS%20postmark%201915%20aUllman%20Mfg%20Co,%20NY.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here above is from 1915. On the back a lady named Marion (?) wrote "We had a very nice trip up and the graduation was a very pretty one well worth seeing. We went to Forrest Park here to-day. It is a lovely big park with all sorts of amusements for children..."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9QhFjjLWWF8h6WMHcqsh7w0En3JApjLutSNumK3QKpZzzpLnk2nd0HXIc7Qq0ipQNZTTqsQ_5piu23U2Q8PO3Jqm8BINjjkI8NN9OzXHXtycCquBe9E1ZRsjIoAF7zowonJWXfVAI8qHhTL7jJQ0OfNvP-9wvi5Xd2oIs18d7G7mqsbtAiZWnXT0XA/s1604/Springfield%20Technical%20HS%20postmark%201915%20a%20with%20figures%20%20Hugh%20C.%20Leighton%20Co,%20Portland%20ME%20made%20in%20Germany.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1604" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9QhFjjLWWF8h6WMHcqsh7w0En3JApjLutSNumK3QKpZzzpLnk2nd0HXIc7Qq0ipQNZTTqsQ_5piu23U2Q8PO3Jqm8BINjjkI8NN9OzXHXtycCquBe9E1ZRsjIoAF7zowonJWXfVAI8qHhTL7jJQ0OfNvP-9wvi5Xd2oIs18d7G7mqsbtAiZWnXT0XA/w400-h256/Springfield%20Technical%20HS%20postmark%201915%20a%20with%20figures%20%20Hugh%20C.%20Leighton%20Co,%20Portland%20ME%20made%20in%20Germany.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Above is postmarked October 1912, with male figures drawn in front of the building. A student wrote this at what must have been the beginning of the school year, "School in here is quite different. I like it very much." He writes to a lady in Monson, Mass.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjYto4igahr84xzL6pN4SopnUfZSsDlSMBqZN7i6dUzde3KOm2R3OHlKKT7LPdvAOaFIW6poujo-uCW60hNKmzI1ylhgRFtFVFv2icRVxEHWnSsUE-qGr9Lj9tCVXrMYFOjFW_zEmr4yyXiv70Duy2UdEyf6wYfhDyBRPejz4ltp_cuAj_qd0M447GQ/s1648/Springfield%20Technical%20HS%20undated%20pub%20Springfield%20News%20Co,%20Spr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1648" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjYto4igahr84xzL6pN4SopnUfZSsDlSMBqZN7i6dUzde3KOm2R3OHlKKT7LPdvAOaFIW6poujo-uCW60hNKmzI1ylhgRFtFVFv2icRVxEHWnSsUE-qGr9Lj9tCVXrMYFOjFW_zEmr4yyXiv70Duy2UdEyf6wYfhDyBRPejz4ltp_cuAj_qd0M447GQ/w400-h254/Springfield%20Technical%20HS%20undated%20pub%20Springfield%20News%20Co,%20Spr.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The building had a capacity of 900 students. When it closed in 1986, this school as well as Classical High School were joined together in a new school far away from downtown, but still called Central High School. Perhaps Technical High School's most famous grads were Ernest "Bunny" Taliaferro, its greatest athlete; and Congressman Richard E. Neal.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Most of the building has been torn down, but the front section is used as the facade for the Springfield Data Center, a modern building constructed behind it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-55106880586771745042023-01-17T09:21:00.000-05:002023-01-17T09:21:13.668-05:00View of Mt. Holyoke from the Connecticut River railroad bridge<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMkAANfXPc73CRcmN4acbXRKizdvJbWUHUytexYJAXozEF8rql5vhYAeljmca_b8HbqKOqu1X62G55APzS3ofrLN7AlmTSpDZs3Kd20LFSzRhCXZx7CoRdkYySmksEMPrd3DFOPclfi1WCdq6hlwUId-jdgdVgiBXT2vUXSSUSbCbLHquxZYfoWh-fw/s1620/CT%20River%20Mt%20Holyke%20NE%20Views%20on%20Boston%20&%20Main%20e%20RR%20postcard%20penny.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1620" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMkAANfXPc73CRcmN4acbXRKizdvJbWUHUytexYJAXozEF8rql5vhYAeljmca_b8HbqKOqu1X62G55APzS3ofrLN7AlmTSpDZs3Kd20LFSzRhCXZx7CoRdkYySmksEMPrd3DFOPclfi1WCdq6hlwUId-jdgdVgiBXT2vUXSSUSbCbLHquxZYfoWh-fw/w400-h254/CT%20River%20Mt%20Holyke%20NE%20Views%20on%20Boston%20&%20Main%20e%20RR%20postcard%20penny.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A vew of Mt. Holyoke in South Hadley, Massachusetts, from the Connecticut River on this postcard "New England Views on Boston & Maine R.R." The photo was probably taken from the Willimansett truss railroad bridge across the river from Chicopee to Holyoke, pictured in the postcard below.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKl2-53A-ilukEv2e40R1HPwt3zAyTghVgaXrMU06WJkpTmuETNaV8JSBtMaYv7i3YXV8E9g3ferCNC_GI4Xqs0KN6_SYxNN0IJZfITlGydQ5APzwoGsp02JuC_xg_rNnOvRjQb6zR5ry09dRKBTZYYYBrGbatn8qSbUm2yU8Yzq3dWmkF4X37af38QA/s370/Willimansett%20RR%20Bridge%201906%20postcard.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="370" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKl2-53A-ilukEv2e40R1HPwt3zAyTghVgaXrMU06WJkpTmuETNaV8JSBtMaYv7i3YXV8E9g3ferCNC_GI4Xqs0KN6_SYxNN0IJZfITlGydQ5APzwoGsp02JuC_xg_rNnOvRjQb6zR5ry09dRKBTZYYYBrGbatn8qSbUm2yU8Yzq3dWmkF4X37af38QA/w400-h265/Willimansett%20RR%20Bridge%201906%20postcard.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The railroad truss bridge is on the left, and was later replaced by a deck plate girder bridge.</span></div><div><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-68167396695448167572023-01-10T09:04:00.001-05:002023-01-10T09:05:50.359-05:00First Baptist Church - Springfield, Massachusetts<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihOBeLxWRGnwyFOWl6EMagbIxbs_n5sbSi7tV9jNlUerFTzTlfPr0tcehlhFT_HbuGrRHWkbNsLVQBOvyVOLdKT8s8CMiUSErpb2DdyMsDfIitaOoss6BJ-pgIsOmeSbfMSGb4Z7On45u1_yqhhdfWOT2Rz_A6M3SRw2huRIayRQ08QUiv3qZyvkzvoA/s1607/Postcard%20-%20Springfield,%20Mass.%20-%20First%20Baptist%20Church%201907%20a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1607" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihOBeLxWRGnwyFOWl6EMagbIxbs_n5sbSi7tV9jNlUerFTzTlfPr0tcehlhFT_HbuGrRHWkbNsLVQBOvyVOLdKT8s8CMiUSErpb2DdyMsDfIitaOoss6BJ-pgIsOmeSbfMSGb4Z7On45u1_yqhhdfWOT2Rz_A6M3SRw2huRIayRQ08QUiv3qZyvkzvoA/w400-h258/Postcard%20-%20Springfield,%20Mass.%20-%20First%20Baptist%20Church%201907%20a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />Here are two postcard views of the First Baptist Church of Springfield, Massachusetts. They are from 1907 and 1908. The Romanesque building is the fourth church used by this congregation and stood on the corner of State and Spring streets.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitO0j_JJakNhMeP9Lj6A-FxUXZvd_MKyl_6FXgHvZKYAVl-va8SBG0VsUxSZrezCmGj-03OT-iCBhPTObe93zD0VwKY9GdDtIrJN9qZFeO_-C3YbSBwE8QOwqAf1QxStdkQ-PQy_zHW5M7lGig4CnG6QCYj4FhqFyxMWPIAnx-0Qih96YUKACD9QoBqg/s1650/Postcard%20-%20Springfield,%20Mass.%20-%20First%20Baptist%20Church%201908%20a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1650" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitO0j_JJakNhMeP9Lj6A-FxUXZvd_MKyl_6FXgHvZKYAVl-va8SBG0VsUxSZrezCmGj-03OT-iCBhPTObe93zD0VwKY9GdDtIrJN9qZFeO_-C3YbSBwE8QOwqAf1QxStdkQ-PQy_zHW5M7lGig4CnG6QCYj4FhqFyxMWPIAnx-0Qih96YUKACD9QoBqg/w400-h251/Postcard%20-%20Springfield,%20Mass.%20-%20First%20Baptist%20Church%201908%20a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The church was used for nearly 20 years, then the congregation merged with the Highland Baptist Church (whose own building on Stebbins Street burned down in 1906) becoming First-Highland Baptist for a time, and afterwards the building was sold and became St. Paul's Universalist Church. It no longer exists, replaced by a parking garage.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">******************</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">; </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - </span><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as a thank-you for joining.</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-67280407197030215922023-01-04T12:58:00.001-05:002023-01-04T12:58:49.048-05:00Nonotuck to Roger Smith to Holyoke House - Holyoke, Massachusetts<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijojwTJuz3ArUnLQ3y5ZHkpMzMEWrDuehcIzGjTdN0mGOIk2VpLlNelpl-ilcN7Pqu7M6lNBQSu9ADshHLby75pZxMJcuAvhVtM_IYAkGQyOumJtOH-pFxGISmvPmXICEfUsYQWKoDF539sYmYpm6dtBKf8TrJ7C5B0hJos8qDhxWRgM4-SAR8FnarhQ/s1637/Hotel%20Nonotuck%20Holyoke%20postcard%201919%20Danziger%20and%20Berman,%20New%20Haven%20CT%20made%20in%20USA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1637" data-original-width="1034" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijojwTJuz3ArUnLQ3y5ZHkpMzMEWrDuehcIzGjTdN0mGOIk2VpLlNelpl-ilcN7Pqu7M6lNBQSu9ADshHLby75pZxMJcuAvhVtM_IYAkGQyOumJtOH-pFxGISmvPmXICEfUsYQWKoDF539sYmYpm6dtBKf8TrJ7C5B0hJos8qDhxWRgM4-SAR8FnarhQ/w253-h400/Hotel%20Nonotuck%20Holyoke%20postcard%201919%20Danziger%20and%20Berman,%20New%20Haven%20CT%20made%20in%20USA.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Nonotuck Hotel, pictured in this 1919 postcard, opened in 1915 on the corner of Suffolk and Maple streets. It later became the Roger Smith Hotel, part of the chain of hotels that began in Connecticut in 1928. This one in Holyoke joined the chain and changed its name in 1937. (The chain no longer exists - there is only one Roger Smith Hotel remaining in Manhattan.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Obd7zO3yr9nt0qtJJ_lswRgB5j1Uom2eEo1VUev9B_qMYqBw2iVn-iL1OSqRqqW6z2HSrjVHU5jASRjAX4f4eKzwP7SohYviZu-wyrqiqC6g5bKmyq3rxk0r0W1sci5CATxyTpdH-mfmdT_cYrkpWfsSffFxYpB0CcAHMw8vhMqi6uENyRemCVBIQA/s1641/Roger%20Smith%20Hotel,%20Holyoke%20MA%20Curteich%20Chicago%20unused%20probably%201930s%20or%2040s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1641" data-original-width="1020" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Obd7zO3yr9nt0qtJJ_lswRgB5j1Uom2eEo1VUev9B_qMYqBw2iVn-iL1OSqRqqW6z2HSrjVHU5jASRjAX4f4eKzwP7SohYviZu-wyrqiqC6g5bKmyq3rxk0r0W1sci5CATxyTpdH-mfmdT_cYrkpWfsSffFxYpB0CcAHMw8vhMqi6uENyRemCVBIQA/w249-h400/Roger%20Smith%20Hotel,%20Holyoke%20MA%20Curteich%20Chicago%20unused%20probably%201930s%20or%2040s.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">By the 1960s, the Roger Smith in Holyoke became The Holyoke House. The building was sold at auction in 2014.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_iJOPoXN8WafBANrFCFVp3V4fbkyWxHNYcbC9cHKugUN8_LfmLLU2a-YRogRX67ZOMEJ2BSgHk2VtcI1Z0Er3QQriTCmOzrHMcQybx3xOdKvJ_KunkjCn6pLQDgMc0v-9sTzZDI3d8QU7MqJixL5_pm9utzpgnl2YgLpa_H2fh8yfgDf56zqGIh7xKg/s2576/Holyoke,%20Suffolk%20&%20Maple%20former%20Holyoke%20House%20a%20photo%20by%20JT%20Lynch%20%202022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1932" data-original-width="2576" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_iJOPoXN8WafBANrFCFVp3V4fbkyWxHNYcbC9cHKugUN8_LfmLLU2a-YRogRX67ZOMEJ2BSgHk2VtcI1Z0Er3QQriTCmOzrHMcQybx3xOdKvJ_KunkjCn6pLQDgMc0v-9sTzZDI3d8QU7MqJixL5_pm9utzpgnl2YgLpa_H2fh8yfgDf56zqGIh7xKg/w400-h300/Holyoke,%20Suffolk%20&%20Maple%20former%20Holyoke%20House%20a%20photo%20by%20JT%20Lynch%20%202022.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">photo by JT Lynch</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju_--2TrczueSgZJf3Ug-UeisGPYgZXPr_h6T96fX3VoPoECPrisHo6VLTyYm9Esf8jUWBAMmV2nTtSJWs4Nrmk-PeAx2VxVNb52pVoQgIcnsjO2VKj8dmaGPj1ck32GdLJWOOZkOGsJ_iSn1Avr7_L584WfcHE2HStHrTJUp-nWnWpbmAFEesp-PwtA/s1817/Holyoke,%20Suffolk%20&%20Maple%20former%20Holyoke%20House%20b%20photo%20by%20JT%20Lynch%20%202022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1757" data-original-width="1817" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju_--2TrczueSgZJf3Ug-UeisGPYgZXPr_h6T96fX3VoPoECPrisHo6VLTyYm9Esf8jUWBAMmV2nTtSJWs4Nrmk-PeAx2VxVNb52pVoQgIcnsjO2VKj8dmaGPj1ck32GdLJWOOZkOGsJ_iSn1Avr7_L584WfcHE2HStHrTJUp-nWnWpbmAFEesp-PwtA/w400-h386/Holyoke,%20Suffolk%20&%20Maple%20former%20Holyoke%20House%20b%20photo%20by%20JT%20Lynch%20%202022.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">photo by JT Lynch</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vzo5hl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War</b></a></i>; <a href="https://amzn.to/3GZGxLY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><i>Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke</i>, <i>Massachusetts</i></b></a>; <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3Vi2MRI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>States of Mind: New England</b></a></i>; as well as books on classic films and several novels. Her latest book is <a href="https://amzn.to/3gFvPjb" target="_blank"><b><i>Christmas in</i></b> <b><i>Classic Films</i></b></a>. TO JOIN HER READERS' GROUP - <a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y9a56p84nk" target="_blank">follow this link for a free book</a> as a thank-you for joining.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /> <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. Lynch. No reprint or reuse is permitted without permission.</div>Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5616587206886324650.post-87024316672790732072022-11-20T10:00:00.000-05:002022-11-20T10:00:08.520-05:00Gift ideas for the book lovers on your list!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioeSEQI3onr4YHcI71YRTqxfJjOGjX8n8w_0IIfH6Ku3ryo2vjWxORHwu8TYp04U0W5_UT-F5acHL1-uS8fBJSI1zu9VcGFhXcYCNVAYJgrVb83mZ17_2APH8QyKmn2Bw7G6_X-O-uoxhhHU5BG7lmiAVsXSrfwQnUvoB6EJx0jlIYdPxv09cR14ulCA/s2395/catalogue%20of%20book%20covers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2395" data-original-width="2305" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioeSEQI3onr4YHcI71YRTqxfJjOGjX8n8w_0IIfH6Ku3ryo2vjWxORHwu8TYp04U0W5_UT-F5acHL1-uS8fBJSI1zu9VcGFhXcYCNVAYJgrVb83mZ17_2APH8QyKmn2Bw7G6_X-O-uoxhhHU5BG7lmiAVsXSrfwQnUvoB6EJx0jlIYdPxv09cR14ulCA/w385-h400/catalogue%20of%20book%20covers.jpg" width="385" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Looking for gift ideas for the readers on your list? </span></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Visit my website <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="http://jacquelinetlynch.com/?fbclid=IwAR3gv8eaXKtJDVr5EjA76yISu3GBVB8NefSS_64A0nb206vQ0I8bchtQrb4" rel="nofollow" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">JacquelineTLynch.com</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/.../ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>!</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright by Jacqueline T. 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