Bitching about Boston

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How is the War on Drugs, doing in Boston ?

1885 Coca Cola had cocaine listed as an ingredient.

http://snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

On February 11, 1862, Elizabeth Siddal died of an overdose of Laudanum. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was distraught with grief and guilt.

1730- 15 tons of opium was smuggled into China. 1773- 75 tons of opium exported from Britain into China.
First Opium War-1839 to 1842.
The second Opium War- 1856 to 1860.

England imports gin from the Netherlands.
1689- 1697 Legislation aimed at restricting brandy imports is passed. Gin production is encouraged. The Gin Craze ends- 1758
The First Gin Palace was in London- Thompson & Fearon's In Holborn - 1830 ?
Rival Gin Palace- Weller's In Old Street London-

"The two old washerwomen, who are seated on the little bench to the left of the bar, are rather overcome by the head-dresses
and haughty demeanour of the young ladies who officiate. They receive their half-quartern of gin and peppermint, with consider-
able deference, prefacing a request for 'one of them soft biscuits,' with a 'Jist be good enough, ma'am."

What happened to the brandy ? Where is the rum ?

 

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Awww, man! They are forcing people to take down the Marathon Memorial in Copley Square.

Some items are to be stored in West Roxbury Ah, well. There will be a fancy, official Marathon Memorial, later.

Boston loves tasteful, bronze sculptures.

 

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Awww, man #2

July 4th Fireworks Changes: Mass. Ave. Bridge Closed, Bag & Cooler Limits

There will also be significant restrictions on bags and coolers and the Esplanade Island lagoon will be a secure area
this year for the first time. Separate wristbands will be needed for entry there and to the Esplanade Oval.

No backpacks will be allowed into the two secured areas for the event – the Oval and the Island lagoon.

Authorities said all personal items must be carried in clear bags only.

Coolers cannot be on wheels and they must be carried in by shoulder strap or a single handle.

Tents with open sides are still allowed.

Prohibited Items

No coolers on wheels
No backpacks
No Firearms, Weapons, Sharp Objects or Fireworks
No glass containers
No Cans
No pre-mixed beverages
All liquids will be carried in sealed clear plastic containers not to exceed 2 liters in size
No grilling, propane tanks or open flames

Allowed Items

Pop up Tents/Canopies with no sides - maximum size 10x10 (no Tents/Canopies allowed on July 3rd)
Blankets or tarps no bigger than 10 x 12
Folding/Beach Chairs only
Coolers, must be carried in by shoulder strap or single handle (no wheels)
All personal items must be carried in clear bags only
After inspection, Small clutch bags/purses, may be taken into the venue with the clear bag.

On July 4th

all ALLOWABLE ITEMS must be checked and carried through security checkpoints by 4:00PM. After 4:00PM, nothing will be allowed
through the security checkpoints except chairs, tarps or blankets not to exceed 10'x12'.

If you plan to bring any of the ALLOWABLE ITEMS, they must be checked and cleared prior to 4:00PM.

http://www.july4th.org/Event_Info/Event_Grounds/

 

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That is Senator Elect to you!

We love the state of Massachusetts

We love The United States of America

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ward-markey-wins-mass-senate-race?ft=1&f=1014

To Washington!

 

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O little town, not (Bethlehem) in New Hampshire. Maybe, selling bottled water, was not such a good idea.
Sink hole from the depths, (It ate a truck, and they had to pull it out.) along with flooding, tree damage,
roof damage. A pond in the cellar. It was their turn to get smacked by a storm.

I am prepped, just in case it is our turn. Filo pastry meal, and filo pastry dessert. *shakes fist at power company.*

 

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The Mayflower replica, will not be taking part in the July 4th celebrations. They are kicking her into shape, for the 2020 celebration.
1620 AD- 2020 400 years of crazy, after thousands of years of Native Americans (and maybe, some crazy Vikings)

 

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from the new Tornado Alley East
Connecticut , Western Mass and New Hampshire
July 1, 2013

It was Agawam, MA that got smacked, this time-
Sideways rain, and two areas of straight line wind damage.
40 to 50 trees were uprooted. Not saplings, big old 200 year old monsters.

"A microburst is a localized column of sinking air, producing damaging divergent and straight-line winds.
They are distinguishable from tornadoes which have convergent damage."

(This garbage started up in Western Mass 20 years, ago. Frequency increased, as each year passed.)

Methuen, Mass got hit. Lynn, Mass got hit.

EF1 Tornado, with winds of 86 miles per hour, traveled 2.5 miles from Windsor Locks, across the Connecticut River,
and into East Windsor, according to the National Weather Service.

The tornado which was 200 yards wide, ripped off some tents off tobacco fields which could be seen hanging
in the trees along Interstate 91.

Super cells went through Springfield

Torrential downpours and heavy wind cause street flooding, toppled trees.

Tornado warning issued for southeastern Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Floods in NH (A woman got hit with lightning in NH)

Boston looks forward to Tuesday

As of late afternoon, no injuries had been reported, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said.
The agency emphasized there were no reports of confirmed tornadoes, but it also reminded people that there
was still storm potential into the evening.

Spokesman Peter Judge said officials had also been told by weather forecasters there could be more severe
weather Tuesday. The message was, “If you liked today, you’ll love tomorrow,” Judge said.

Dewpoints throughout the state remain unusually high — in the upper 60s to around 70 — making for the warm
and muggy conditions the state has been blanketed with.

"Hot, humid airmass remaining in place, late-day thunderstorms were expected throughout the week."

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/07/microburst_confirmed_in_agawam.html

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...rise-toward/4k7SW25bfakJZDIUsVe0SJ/story.html

http://www.cbs3springfield.com/story/22733173/torrential-downpours-cause-street-flooding

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130701/NEWS11/130709962/1013/news11

I don't quite know how I came to the conclusion, that I should go out, while the getting was good.
Boston and Cambridge were soggy, today. But, nothing looked like real trouble. Was like getting
spritzed with an atomizer full of hot soup.

 

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New York and New Jersey, also part of Tornado Alley East

The EF- 0 tornado touched down at 9:17 a.m. in Berkeley Heights, according to a post on the website
of the New York City offices of the National Weather Service.

For nearly 10 minutes it cut a path about 50 yards wide and 4.8 miles long through New Providence and Summit.

Winds reached an estimated 85 mph, the officials said.

http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2013/07/small_tornado_confirmed_in_nj_weather_officials_say.html

Just north of the Garden State Plaza near Paramus, cars were seen being pushed by firefighters
as the heavy rains made it instantly too deep for cars to move.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_jersey&id=9158237

Was your flight cancelled ?

 

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Vermont- part of Tornado Alley East

Super cells have been moving through Vermont

Lake Champlain- Not flooding the banks, yet ? How is the bike trail ?

(Island Line Trail that extends out over the lake, between Colchester and South Hero.)

Roads are getting washed out.

July 2, 2013

Flash Flood Watch remains in effect through this evening...

The Flash Flood Watch continues for

* for the eastern Adirondack Mountains in New York and all of
Vermont... including the Champlain Valley.

* Through this evening.

* Scattered showers will become more numerous today along with the
chance of thunderstorms and locally heavy rainfall... which could
produce flash flooding.

* Heavy rain the past week has saturated soils... and rivers and
streams are running much above normal. These conditions
combined with additional rainfall are responsible for the
flood threat.

A shelf cloud is appropriately named, as it looks like a shelf jutting out from the main thunderstorm. In a thunderstorm,
there are updrafts(rising air) and downdrafts (sinking air). The shelf cloud is a result of that air sinking out from the
thunderstorm (the downdraft). As that downdraft "drops out of" the storm, it hits the ground then expands outward-
think of it like pouring water on the floor from a bucket, the water will hit the floor then expand into a surrounding pool.
In the thunderstorm downdraft, that "pool" is colder than the surrounding air. That cooler, quickly moving air forces the
warmer/more humid air ahead of the storm to lift and condense into this very neat looking cloud formation. Given the
momentum of that cooler air pouring out, a shelf cloud often comes along with strong to damaging wind gusts.

 

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Arthur Francis said he was amazed at the patterns that showed up on the radar.

“I’ve never seen conditions sway so fast,” he said.

Salem State University meteorologist Arthur Francis

http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1145375439/Storm-pulls-its-punches

Trained weather spotters did report seeing what they thought was a funnel cloud near Danvers just before 3 p.m.,
but according to news reports, the weather service said the funnel cloud had attempted to form, but broke up.

Significant flooding was reported in Danvers along Elliott Street, Route 114 and near the Liberty Tree Mall. Readers
also said there was flooding near Town Hall and Lafayette Avenue off Route 62.

Weather spotters said part of Route 62 was becoming impassable due to the flooding around 4 p.m.

http://danvers.patch.com/groups/aro...ssued-for-parts-of-northeastern-mass_eebcf39d

What will be next ? A hurricaine and a tornado in the area, at the same time ?

 

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Lebanon, New Hampshire did not have a good day. They were pounded with rain.

Floods destroyed the roads. You cannot get there, from here.

Emergency crews helped evacuate people.

How the state will pay for all the repairs, is anyone's guess.

The rivers are running full, and fast. Watch extended until one in the morning.

Concord, New Hampshire is not thrilled, either.

The storms trying to get at Boston, will be pushed to the West.

 

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Aye yup They are setting off the cannon. So, it begins.

 

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Anthony's Pier 4, vestige of city's old waterfront, to close in August.
Smaller restaurant to open somewhere else, nearby, on the waterfront.
Boston Globe
Lifestyle
July 5, 2013

 

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Was Banned in Boston!

July 7, 2013
Boston Globe
Ideas and Books
Original article- Ruth Graham

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first commercial printing in America of John Cleland’s racy 1749 novel
“Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure,” better known as “Fanny Hill.”

Banned in Massachusetts soon after its publication, the book was the subject of a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court,
with an outcome that would effectively render all potentially obscene literature protected under the law. A look back at the case that
made book banning in America essentially a thing of the past.

A bishop denounces the book- "The lewdest thing, that I have ever seen."
1821- Two Massachusetts men were charged with printing an illustrated version
1963- G.P. Putnam's Sons decide to publish the book in America
Obscene Literature Control Commission in Massachusetts made its recommendations for a ban
William I. Cowin is assigned to the case- with the aim of declaring the book obscene and therefore unprotected by the First Amendment
A Massachusetts judge ruled the book obscene
the state's Supreme Judicial Court agreed

Supreme Court
Memoirs VS Massachusetts 1965

Chief Justice Earl Warren
Justice William Brennan
Justice Tom Clark
Justice Byron White
The Harvard Crimson quote- Fanny Hill is back- to stay!
250 years after the book was written
50 years after the fight

 

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Anthony's Pier 4, vestige of city's old waterfront, to close in August.
Smaller restaurant to open somewhere else, nearby, on the waterfront.
Boston Globe
Lifestyle
July 5, 2013

It had been dying a slow death for 20 years

 

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Whitey Bulger's trial
(James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger, Jr.)

Testifying at Bulger’s racketeering trial, Weeks described for jurors how he conducted surveillance at Anthony’s Pier 4 restaurant,
and reported when Halloran was leaving the restaurant. After Halloran got into a car driven by Michael Donahue, Bulger rolled up
and started firing.

“There was a lot of people there, they were diving, running around, they were screaming,” Weeks said.

Halloran got out of the car, but Bulger pulled his car around, and started firing again, Weeks told jurors.

“Jim Bulger just started shooting at him,” Weeks said. “Brian Halloran went down, and Jim Bulger just kept shooting.
His body was bouncing on the ground.”

Donahue, a father of three who was not a target, was also killed.

Weeks said that he did not know who the second man was, but members of Donahue’s family said they don’t believe him-

“He knows exactly who was in the car with Whitey that killed my father and I think they’ve been protecting him since Day One.
So I think Weeks is a fat liar if you ask me,” said Donahue’s son, Tom Donahue, outside the courthouse.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...itey-bulger/iAPgqR13kxQIZdLB19SLjI/story.html

Weeks is still telling lies about how Whitey gained ownership of a liquor store.
He told a lie about how Whitey pushed the gun away from the child.
It was a baby and they knew the baby was teething on the gun.
Why is Weeks trying to shield Whitey, from what Whitey really did ?
Because Weeks would be in more trouble, with the law. Extortion mixed with violence against children- he is a monster.

 

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heh heh heh

Drama Day

July 9, 2013

Weeks called Whitey a rat, in court today.

Whitey to Weeks- Fuck You !

Weeks to Whitey- Fuck you, OK ?

Just what, were they having a back and forth about ?

Who dug a hole, for the dead bodies ?

(Who told Whitey, that maybe, he should have his lawyer talk for him ?)

Near the end of a dramatic day of testimony in the racketeering trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, key prosecution witness Kevin Weeks and
Bulger shared a heated exchange of words. Bulger’s attorney J.W. Carney questioned Weeks about the deal he made with prosecutors,
in which he received a five-year sentence in exchange for testifying against Bulger. The outburst between the gangster and his former
protege was the second time Bulger has lost his temper during the trial.

Boston Globe
July 9, 2013
Metro section

Twatter tracks-

Shelley Murphy

It's the second time Bulger lost his temper; earlier he swore at Martorano but only prosecutors heard; this time jury heard

http://live.boston.com/Event/Live_blog_Whitey_Bulger_trial

 

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Carney: “You won against the system?”

Weeks: “What did I win? What did I win?”

Carney: “You won five years.”

Weeks: “Five people are dead, five people are dead.”

Carney: “Does that bother you at all?”

Weeks: “Yeah it bothers me.”

Carney: “How does it bother you?”

Weeks: “Because we killed people that were rats and I had the two biggest rats right next to me. That’s why it ...”

Bulger: “You suck.”

Weeks: “[Expletive] you, okay.”

Bulger: “[Expletive] you, too”

Weeks: “What do you want to do?

Judge Denise J. Casper: “Hey. Mr. Bulger. Mr. Bulger. Let your attorneys speak for you.

Mr. Weeks here’s how this works: You answer the questions, okay?

Mr. Carney, you can finish your questioning.”

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...om-exchange/EnaOt92bMK4y2rP0Mq8aeO/story.html

Whitey expected Weeks to kill someone.
Whitey to Weeks- "You should have shot him."
Whitey was pissed off at Weeks- " There is a lot of room left, in the hole."
(How much did Weeks do for Whitey, before the car murders ?)

 

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The article online, that the Globe is offering the general public,
is missing all the bits of information that makes the exposure of
what Whitey did, interesting. They are in the subscription version.

Those bits of information have been steadily erasing the outlaw hero image that Whitey crafted.
Whitey Bulger has been a criminal, most of his life. He is a very old man, now. He is 83 years old.

The state of Massachusetts has spent large amounts of money to find and dig up the bodies of the people that Whitey killed.
Why did Whitey kill all of those people ? In the end, it was so Whitey could live a long happy criminal life. He was a murderer.

Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy have been tracking Whitey Bulger's history-

"I got a call from an FBI agent named Tom Daly," says Cullen. "He said that he had heard from one of his informants who was now in
the witness protection program that we were going to do this story and that we were going to name Whitey Bulger as an informant.
The agent told me that, 'It's not true, and that if you report something that's not true Whitey will not live with that.' He said,
'He would think nothing of clipping you, Kevin, and you know — you lived there.' "
This is the same Tom Daly that had Richard Castucci as an informant, and he knew the FBI did not investigate the murder of Castucci.

Back in 1976, Castucci was murdered because John J. Connolly Jr. told Whitey that Castucci was an informant. Murdered three days after
Castucci told Daly, that he knew where two of Whitey's gang would be cooling their heels. Does Daly know who altered FBI records
to hide a murder ?
(testimony from the trial on Thursday- reporters Shelley Murphy and Milton T. Valencia covered the trial for The Globe)

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...gster-trial/gnBpLvUBTmbiXGQnNyL5JO/story.html

Lawyers for James “Whitey” Bulger, who has bragged about strafing the Boston Globe offices with gunfire during the
busing crisis of the 1970s, may call two of the newspaper’s top staffers as defense witnesses at his upcoming trial.

The gangster’s legal team on Thursday filed a list of 78 potential witnesses, including
Globe columnist Kevin Cullen and reporter Shelley Murphy.

Their book includes a reference to a letter that Bulger wrote to a friend from jail in which he boasted about shooting up the Globe,
to protest what he called the newspaper’s skewed portrayal of South Boston and its residents during busing.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...ulger-trial/sKacNatmtNGdT5ktzJH3gO/story.html

Special thanks, to NPR and WBUR

Bad news, Whitey- Dead men and women can talk, thanks to 2013 science.
Just ask the family of Albert DeSalvo. An undercover police officer grabbed
a water bottle with DeSalvo's nephew's DNA on it.

The doubts about the Boston Strangler case, will be solved, one way or another.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...ey-the-case/0591VKP9KfwB0yCEmF3cMP/story.html

Old history, and old bad blood- Raymond L. S. Patriarca, Gennaro Angiulo

When Robert Kennedy,(JFK's brother) became Attorney General, he launched an aggressive program to place listening devices
in as many mob-meeting places as possible. Agents also worked at developing informants within the ranks of organized crime

{gsgs comment- The bugging devices hidden in Boston's Little Italy were exposed. The TV news and papers were flooded.}

FBI makes admission on Bulger

Confirms 'Whitey' was an informant

By Patricia Nealon, Globe Staff, 6/07/1997

What has long been suspected is now official: Fugitive crime boss James J. ``Whitey'' Bulger was an informant for the FBI.

http://www.boston.com/news/packages/whitey/globe_stories/1997/0607_fbi_makes_admission_on_bulger.htm

The Angiulos were convicted in 1986 in a case based largely on similarly recorded evidence from the FBI.
Whitey Bulger was one of the informants the FBI used to bug Angiulo's North End headquarters, sources say.

While Bulger and Flemmi have been revealed as informants, the government's refusal to disclose whether four other men --
convicted drug trafficker and one-time fugitive Angelo ``Sonny'' Mercurio; Anthony ``The Saint'' St. Laurant, a reputed `
`made member'' of the Patriarca crime family based in Rhode Island; the late Robert Donati; and Kenneth Guarino --
has set up a showdown between prosecutors and the court.
December 1966
A clue- "Both men were shot to death and dumped in South Boston to make it look like a rival Irish gang murdered them."

 

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July 12, 2013

Nineteen-year-old Mary Sullivan, whom Sherman called ‘‘the joy of her Irish Catholic family,’’ left the quiet of Cape Cod
for the bustle of life in Boston in January 1964. A few days later she was dead.

The families of DeSalvo and Sullivan had jointly sued the state for release of evidence while pursuing their own investigation.
They had Sullivan’s body exhumed in 1999 for private DNA testing as part of the effort.

They [Boston Authorities] plan to exhume DeSalvo’s body from a grave in Peabody, Mass., sometime this week and
said it could be just a matter of days before they get results of DNA testing they’re planning.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...r-closure/OUqwJ8URFeeAnaCJz40XCL/story-1.html

 

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The American Flag Caused a Car Crash on the Zakim Bridge
( Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge )

July 12, 2013

A large American flag that was hanging from the center of the Zakim Bridge.
(Large ? The 20-by-40-foot flag fell on the 2010 Toyota Camry)

"....minor crash on the bridge in Boston on Friday morning after the flag fell from its holding spot above the roadway
and landed on top of a moving vehicle, causing it to careen into the median on the southbound side of Interstate 93. "

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/07/12/interstate-93-car-crash-zakim-bridge/

Thanks, Mass Department of Transportation (They are the ones that put it up there) Lucky, that no one was killed....

Michael Verseckes, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, said the flag tumbled onto the car
because the rope hoisting it was frayed. He believes exposure to harsh weather, as well as age, contributed to the fraying.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...minor-crash/OkIZyDNLNs7UbjZ7lGMUUM/story.html

Two coaches and an empty school bus twere stranded on the southbound lanes on the Zakim Bridge after a minor accident, State Police reported.

The roughly 50 passengers who were on the two coaches were transferred to an MBTA bus and taken off the bridge.

Can't Find a bridge ?

Do not try to look for the pepper pot bridge- (It needs repairs. It is 107 years old.) say hello to the Craigie Bridge !

Need to take the T ? MBTA customers will ride buses between the Kendall/MIT and Park Street stations in Boston,
with bus stops at the Charles MGH stop included.

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news...s_longfellow_bridge_detours_set_to_begin.html

Justin Bieber will have a concert at TD Garden the weekend the detour begins and the Yankees will be in Boston to play the Red Sox.

Traffic changes and detours scheduled to begin in less than two weeks for the rehabilitation of the Longfellow Bridge between Cambridge and Boston.

According to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and MBTA Red Line service will be impacted on 25 weekends
during the project, which is expected to last three-and-a-half years.

 

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One last flock of Heath Hens
on Martha's Vineyard, on one farm.
1926 just one was left.
A male, who called out
Inviting females to the dance of life.
No answer for five seasons.
It drummed like a grouse.
It had a voice
1600 AD, people knew the sound

Booming Ben, the last of his kind, was last seen on March 11, 1932

"Some believe it was heath hen—not turkey—that Pilgrims consumed at the first Thanksgiving dinner."

"By 1870, were completely gone from the American mainland."

Cornell University has Audubon's book, The Birds of America. Is the Heath Hen, in there ?

Martha's Vineyard is cold to the idea, and the no is said, to a memorial sculpture for the extinct bird.

Massachusetts State Park- Setting a precedent, and they are very cautious.
It was a Heath Hen Preserve. They had a meeting, in person on the old farm.
He goes to Boston, and goes to the heart of the Mass Parks and Recreation
operations.

The artist's words and binders of visual information, work through the system.

The Heath Hen, Booming Ben, found a home in modern children's hearts.
They sang a song about Ben, and about the mother hen and her chicks.
The Heath Hen sculpture was installed, and dedicated.
They installed a real bike path. Why not, a plaque and the sculpture ?

The old farm is renamed, and given a place in the home of official State Parks.
50 years under the care of its namesake—forest supervisor Manuel F. Correllus, starting in 1948.

http://mvgazette.com/news/2012/08/09/new-state-forest-designation-protects-natural-habitat

The story of the installation of the sculpture-

http://www.mvtimes.com/2010/11/17/lost-heath-hen-rather-facsimile-back-3466/

The Great Auk, Carolina Parakeet, Labrador Duck, Passenger Pigeon and Heath Hen -
driven to extinction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

All killed off by man's callousness. Extinct.

Who shot the last Carolina Parakeet ? Lived North of Mexico. 1918 Carolina Parakeet declared extinct.

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park

The St. Sebastian River is a freshwater tributary, fed by rainfall and by smaller creeks and rivulets that drain the land
between the Atlantic Sand Ridge, which runs more or less parallel to the present day location of US 1 and the
Florida East Coast Railway.

Geoffrey Sea, knows where the last passenger pigeon died, and by who. A boy, shot it, from a tree- at a place near the railroad tracks.
It found a home, where people could see it, and know what had happened.

Labrador Duck- Almira- They want a sculpture installed.

The Audubon Center along the River wants to accept a sculpture of the extinct duck.

The Great Auk- Killed off, on the land, because the birds were defenseless.
Became extinct. Killed for their down. 1878 Great Auk is extinct.
Ferry to Fogo Island

Fogo Island is the largest of the offshore islands of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The greed of all nations, harvesting the sea
with gigantic ocean trawlers, five miles offshore.

Fogo Island said yes, to the installation.
It will be seen, by those offshore in boats.
(It is very tall and large.) And on land.
Drilling to anchor it to the rock.
People of the island show excitement and delight
to have it. The artist has what he hoped for.

Thank you, wgbh/PBS and the artist- Todd McGrain

http://www.lostbirdfilm.org/

 

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After midnight and it is 75F outside. 75% humidity mark. Repeat of last week's silliness, today. The clouds were gently spitting at the ground for five minutes.

 

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98F, on Friday ? That is supposed to read 78F! Oh, wait. This is 2013. Not 1983. *sigh*

 

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Fuck!

Has someone murdered Stephen “Stippo” Rakes ?

(He is the man, who had his liquor store taken from him by Whitey Bulger.)

Rakes was due to testify against Whitey Bulger.

Rakes, who was on the witness list of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, was told Tuesday that prosecutors did not plan to
call him to testify, a decision that Steve Davis, brother of another Bulger victim, said today had devastated Rakes.

The cause of death is being determined by the state medical examiner’s office. There were no obvious signs of trauma
to the body, which was found at about 1:30 p.m. in the area of Mill Street in Lincoln, authorities said.

Video-

http://www.boston.com/video/viral_p...OAr9OWST-YiEQyzUCo3g3L-Af&bctid=2553152395001

July 18, 2013

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...vestigation/A1zdIswfBrKiJEFH5GfntL/story.html