by Peggy Cahill | Aug 28, 2013 | The Public Humanist
Mary, age 95, a former opera singer and world traveler, currently a resident of Golden Living Center in Gloucester, enters the Cape Ann Museum (CAM) on a summer Tuesday morning. Along with Annie, Richie, two staff from Golden Living, and three museum program...
by Michael Cimaomo | Aug 28, 2013 | Northeast Underground
Reading through the track listing of The Flaming Lips’ latest album, The Terror, one fact quickly becomes clear. These aren’t your parents’ fearless freaks. Gone are such light-hearted song titles like “She Don’t Use Jelly,”...
by Free Sport | Aug 28, 2013 | Free Sport
If you haven’t yet read it, check out the outstanding Sports On Earth article “Johnny Football vs. The NCAA,” which just about perfectly addresses the complexity, hypocrisy, and utter buffoonery of big time (business) college sports and its...
by Maureen Turner | Aug 28, 2013 | News
In the late 19th century, Herbert Marshall Farr and his brother-in-law, Joseph Metcalf, built together a highly successful business in the city of Holyoke: the Farr Alpaca Company, which manufactured woven fabric. Along with the business, the two men also built...
by Advocate staff | Aug 28, 2013 | News
Wealthy Noho Activist Gives It Away By Pete Redington The popular radio show Marketplace recently delved into an aspect of economics that rarely gets considered—giving away one’s inheritance—when Northampton native Jessie Spector was invited...