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Woodstock: Peace, love and rich college kids

If you haven’t overdosed on Woodstock memories these past few weeks, you’re lucky. Everyone makes a big deal about the ..


Fair or not: Country living is far from ‘Little House’

If you tried to figure out what farm life is like judging by what you see at the state fair, ..


The other N-word

Nantucket is a small island off the southern shore of Cape Cod. It’s where the Pequod, Captain Ahab’s ship, set ..


A parable for the ‘ages’

“Baby boomers,” old man Barker said at the weekly canasta game. “Me, me, me. My, my, my. They all act ..


Recessionistas: Forgo the lobster for the $26 burger

I was reading a story about how to eat cheaply during the recession, one of those stories that says you ..


Mother knows best?

I was in the sixth grade when I realized that my mother was trying to wreck my life. We wore ..


Green dumb

Once again, no one asked us to be on this year’s garden tour. That makes 15 years straight. Not only ..


Just when we need them

Our Fourth of July brings to mind a man who rejects our celebration. And men and women on a tiny ..


A developing story

I was watching the news with a teenager the evening Kodak announced that it was going to stop making Kodachrome ..


Stocks and the single girl

In the late ‘70s, it was hard to pick up a magazine that didn’t have a story about testing your ..


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