Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Model Railroading - A World Unto Itself

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“Miles” of railroad track, and more than 25,000 people watching from the sides of the roadbeds. Tiny little plastic roadbeds, and Styrofoam...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Brick and Mortar, Steel and Glass - Boston Architecture

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A bastion of stalwart, stubborn history, a Federalist style building is flanked, almost threateningly, by later 19th century examples of ar...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Off Topic - Book Sale

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This is to announce that TODAY and TOMORROW only, my time-travel adventure novel MYTHS OF THE MODERN MAN will be FREE exclusively on Amazon....
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The Audience that Wouldn't Leave - Lowell, Masschusetts

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This piece was originally posted on my (now suspended) Tragedy and Comedy in New England blog: Sometime in the mid-1800s, when theatre was...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

William Skinner's Silk Mills - Holyoke, Massachusetts

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Skinner Silk Mill, 1887, Holyoke Photo-Gravure Co., New York (An earlier version of this article was previously published in "Chic...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Briggs Opera House - White River Junction, Vermont

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Here, photographed in warmer days, is the Briggs Opera House of White River Junction, Vermont. It is a small, but vibrant, theater nestled ...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

After-Christmas Sales - 1901

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