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While in Cambridge last week I stopped into the Harvard Book Store (independently owned and operated at 1256 Mass Ave since 1932) to browse but to also track down a print-on-demand book making machine I had read about. Positioned between the stacks in the right rear of the store I…
Read More »At the iconic Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Monday May 28, President Obama began a national commemoration of the 50-year anniversary of the Vietnam War. “In an opinion column published today [May 28, 2012] in the military’s Stars and Stripes, the President reminds that it was in January 50 years ago…
Read More »The New York Times just yesterday featured a story about a group of Lawrence, Massachusetts residents who have come together to strategize about how to tell the “other side of the story” – to work out a plan to change the prevailing image of the city. Boston Magazine recently labeled Lawrence…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Former football star Brian Banks of Long Beach, California got a really raw deal. What happened to him is shocking and outrageous. A stupid, unthinking woman accused him of rape. Except in 2003, Wanetta Gibson,15, was a stupid,…
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