New England is awash in young musicians challenging the traditional concept of folk music. The genre has become so experimental that it is difficult to come up with anything truly shocking anymore. Kris Delmhorst is pretty far out on the folk spectrum utilizing all of the most modern techniques: unconventional instrumentation, distortion, even some minor […]
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Susan Shatter ranks among the best contemporary American watercolor painters. Other than Andrew Wyeth, I can’t think of another living artist who has done a more substantial body of work in watercolor. Shatter’s new exhibition, “Over Seas” at Aucocisco Gallery in Portland, Maine, features more than two dozen paintings that bring the fresh, translucent quality […]
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Pairings Hint — July/Aug
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Pairings for July/August
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The Monster Seats
62 The Monster Seats Architect Janet Marie Smith hit a grand slam with this idea. Sometime between now and whenever, you’ve got to experience the Green Monster seating. For years the Green Monster was a wall and then netting above it to catch home runs. But between the ’02 and ’03 seasons the Sox plunked […]
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Songs of the Sox
57 The Songs of the Sox: “Sweet Caroline” and “Tessie” The ritual of playing “Sweet Caroline” at Fenway at the bottom of the eighth inning has been a Red Sox Nation favorite since 2003. It began in 1998, when a Red Sox employee named his newborn daughter Caroline; the song was played as a tribute […]
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Speaking My Mind
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Tony C.
43 Tony C. If you were a kid who loved the Red Sox in the 1960s, you likely had one hero: Tony Conigliaro. He was the local boy from Swampscott who had played baseball at St. Mary’s of Lynn; he had so much charisma that an entire generation of baseball fans fell in love with […]
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Blue Heaven
On hot mornings like this one, I start early when it’s still (relatively) cool. Last weekend, I planted the vegetable garden, and later, morning glories on the porch posts. I need to keep these well watered, at least for their first week, and more if the heat continues. I only have one faucet, which is […]
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What Ever Happened to Daphne?
The smartest kid in Maine intended to win a Nobel Prize by the time she was 25. Life didn’t quite work out that way.
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A Helluva Feller
39 A Helluva Feller “Attention please, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Fenway Park.” That was public-address announcer Sherm Feller’s unforgettable salutation to Red Sox fans at Fenway for 26 years. Feller was both informative and entertaining. He was a great storyteller, having so much to share after decades as a radio performer […]
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Folk Art of Maine and Massachusetts
As city after city and state after state begin promoting cultural tourism in hopes of cashing in on the much-ballyhooed creative economy, art trails or museum trails have become an increasingly popular marketing tool. Maine, for example, already has a Maine Art Museums Trail and a Maine Fiberarts Tour. Now it has a Maine Folk […]