Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Books on New England history for your holiday shopping!

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Here is a selection of my books that tell stories of New England history.  Please consider them when shopping for your book lover/history fa...
Friday, July 4, 2025

Independence Day - Countdown to the Semiquincentennial...

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  We New Englanders just marked in June the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill.  This flag of New England was flown and carried ...
Monday, February 12, 2024

A Tragic Toast to Christmas - wood alcohol deaths of 1919 in Chicopee, Mass.

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More than 100 people died of a companionable drink in several towns and cities in New England on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1919, nearl...
Monday, November 13, 2023

Reminder - Zoom talk on CHRISTMAS IN CLASSIC FILMS one week away!

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  Next week...A Zoom discussion on CHRISTMAS IN CLASSIC FILMS! My Zoom presentation on my book  Christmas in Classic Films  is one week away...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Matchbooks as clues in THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT KILLED - Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts

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  Matchbooks as clues in the upcoming -- THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT KILLED The next book in my nostalgic mystery series set in New England in th...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Washington's message on the Touro Synagogue

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George Washington visited the oldest synagogue in this nation (founded in the 1600s) at Newport, Rhode Island.  His remarks on the Touro ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Arsenic and Old Lace - A Connecticut Murder Mystery Plays Out - Windsor, Connecticut

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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) is based on a true story.   In this season of Halloween, we note that the daffy and macabre comedy with m...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

St. Patrick's Day Parade - 1958 - Holyoke, Massachusetts

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Photo by Ann B. Lynch. c. 1958, c. 2015 by Jacqueline T. Lynch  High Street in Holyoke, at the St. Patrick's Day Parade.  It...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

For Christmas - Two eBook Offers

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This is to announce a Christmas special offer of my book on the career of actress Ann Blyth.  Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star ., eBo...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Berkshire Theatre Group - A Christmas Carol - Pittsfield, Massachusetts

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND! BTG's 10th Annual  A Christmas Carol   by Charles Dickens adapted by Eric Hill co-directed by Eric Hil...