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Patriot's Day
Blog: No Borders - 19 April 2010
Lexington, Mass - The Patriots' Day celebration in Massachusetts starts early - really early. As dawn breaks, local history buffs are assembled on the Lexington village green, some decked out in `Redcoats' while others sport the scruffy attire of Minutemen, firearms in hand, ready to re-enact the fateful battle that kicked off the War for American Independence.
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New England Authors - 1st in a series
Blog: No Borders - 2 March 2010
Concord, Mass - Appropriately enough, the selection of my book club this month was Geraldine Brooks' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, March. It is a Civil War story, but flashbacks and other parts of the novel take place in Concord, Mass. Perfect timing, as I am about to start my research on the update of Lonely Planet's guide to New England.
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Thoreau, Early American Green Writer
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 15 February 2010
Destination: Concord, Massachusetts Site: Henry David Thoreau’s Home “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” So wrote American writer Henry David Thoreau two and a half centuries ago. Sounds like a bumper sticker from the present day environmentalists, doesn’t it? Good old Thoreau continues to prove [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library
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Indian Summer, Part 1
Blog: No Borders - 6 November 2009
Concord, Mass - Most of the leaves are brown by now. We finally raked and swept in front of our house, convinced that there will not be too many more coming down. Aside from my day canvassing in Maine, I didn't take any special leaf-peeping trips this year. There was no time for hikes in the White Mountains or drives along the Kangkamangus Highway. Foliage season is so fleeting.
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