New England Travels

This ad from December 28, 1901 shows us that after-Christmas sales are nothing new.  They may not have featured shoppers pummeling each oth...

“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” first appeared in print as a poem in the Boston Christian Register , a few days after Christmas in 1849. E...

Grant Monument, Lincoln Park, Chicago - JTLynch Photo This is an excerpt of a speech I recently made to the Chicopee Historical Society...

This is just a brief update on a blog tour I've undertaken this week for my novel, "Beside the Still Waters." I have a gue...

An earlier version of the following essay appeared in “In Chicopee”, a publication of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram in 1992. In the spri...

This is to announce I have a guest blog post up today at "All the Days of" - about novel writing and playwriting.  This is Stop 1...

This covered bridge is in New Hampshire.  The photo was taken I believe in the early '90s.  I'm afraid that's all I know about ...