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Meghan, Jeff, Mason and cowpoke Owen got in late Monday night and yesterday was their first full day in Carlisle. Very, very hot and humid yesterday and today will be worse before the predicted afternoon thunderstorms arrive – the 70+ percent dew point should drop to the 40% range and it will be awesome tomorrow. ...
I am a bit behind on posting adventures but since it is a rainy Sunday, I will try and catch up. Two weeks ago, my friends Clare and Sebastian Pedersen, came in from Seattle for a bit of a sight seeing trip of Boston and area. We met up on a beautiful and warm ...
Interesting article here on The Magna Carta – it’s 8 century anniversary this year, its impact and suggestions of what it means. I think it is interesting and intrinsic about The Magna Carta that, while the article does not mention it, ideas are like viruses – once you catch an idea, it doesn’t go away ...
Invasive plants were coming back after being cleared by John Bakewell of Carlisle Arboriculture. So I decided to take over my dad’s scythe with the brush blade to clear stuff on the other side of the silt barriers (since it would be hard to get a tractor mower over there). Part of the deal John ...
Today, Sunday, we went over to the building site with brooms and a bucket for splashing water around – to try and make the rock Gneiss a bit more camera friendly. Along the driveway we achieved great success – everywhere else – not so much. The good pictures below. I also broke out the scrub ...
I was reading the excellent Carlisle: Its History and Heritage by Ruth Chamberlin Wilkins and came across the founding of the mill on my property on Bedford Road, Carlisle. I have excerpted it below by hand. Product Details (Amazon.com) Unknown Binding: 481 pages Publisher: Carlisle Historical Society; 1st edition (1976) Language: English ASIN: B0006CO8UA Page ...
I did a bit of digging for my prior post and when I Google searched for William Koford, I stumbled on the DigitalCommonwealth website. It is wonderful and pretty well organized considering it appears to be structured via an automated process. Here is a search of photographs of Carlisle MA on the site. Below, are ...
I mentioned in this post here that my parent’s had found some old photos that Alice Koford had taken and given them in the late 1960’s when they purchased the property on South Street in Carlisle. The photos were taken post WWII but before the property was sold in the estate sale (as I recall, ...
I think my whole family is just chocka-block full of great people – but today, I want to do a little timely bragging about my SiL Tenley. She started a photography business 3 years ago with a vision of combining good old hard work, professionalism, networking and business acumen with something she enjoyed and was ...
As part of my drive across the country recently, I took a fair amount of video from the Thomson Mill in Shedd OR and the Thomas Kay Mill (Willamette Heritage Center in Salem OR). I realized this morning that I forgot to post most of that video – so I just uploaded them to YouTube ...