Monday, August 26, 2024

Western Mass locations in my new book CHILDREN'S WARTIME ADVENTURE NOVELS

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New England locations are featured in several middle grade and young adult novels published during World War II.  My latest book, Children...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

A ride to Massasoit Spring -- West Springfield, Massachusetts

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We salute the Town of West Springfield on its 250th anniversary with a postcard of bygone days, likely the turn of the twentieth century.  T...
Monday, May 13, 2024

American International College - Springfield, Mass.

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According to this 1930s-era postcard, American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts, a private, four-year coeducational schoo...
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...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Poet Jack Hayes' new work -- PRAYER WIND

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Jack Hayes' recent volume of poetry, one of an ambitious three-volume project, is being published by Askance Publishing.  Prayer Wind i...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Amherst Railway Society annual Railroad Hobby Show

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photo by J.T. Lynch This coming weekend, Saturday, January 27th and Sunday, January 28th, the annual Railroad Hobby Show hosted by the Amher...
Saturday, December 2, 2023

Chicopee Falls mystery novel - THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT KILLED

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  I'm very pleased to announce my newest book -- the seventh in my Double V Mysteries series:   The Little Engine That Killed . On this ...