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Hi everyone – I will be travelling to and from Boston/SFO on the following dates. I have a work event on the weekend while in SFO – department picnic on Sunday June 7th at Quarry Lake in Fremont. Boston to SFO Date: 04Jun2015 (this is a Thursday) Flight: VX353 Depart: 04:30PM Arrive: 08:05PM San ...
The prep stage for any project always seems longest – but it is where a project is made or broken. This past week or so the foundation was marked out at my house site and then the last of the topsoil was removed – bringing forth a dome of rock ledge right below the surface ...
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 ...
Hi everyone – San Francisco Travel plans Flying FROM Boston TO San Francisco: April 15 Flying FROM San Francisco TO Boston: April 29 ...
Spring is flirting with us but my thought this morning (Sunday) looking out was that things were still pretty frozen. We got above freezing a very little bit today but the ground is frozen very, very hard still 22 days till the Sox home opener – could be a chilly one! ...
EDIT – so much for winter being on its way out – it has started bucketing snow here in the late afternoon. We probably have an 1/8th or 1/4 inch already – whoops! Spring has not yet arrived, but Winter is definitely on its way out In Carlisle, this weekend the temperatures have been in ...