Month: August 2016

Trying to squeeze all I can out of my days off so my suitcase is repacked and my camera gear is in the car.  Floating my way up to Quebec City for some Photo fun with friends for a few days!  Happy Hump Day!

I’m getting this bad boy for my grilling stuff and right now with it’s on sale price of just $59.19 I think it’s a complete no-brainer for many different uses.  This would be good in a garage, or laundry room, wherever.  Here’s the link to buy it.  It’s normally $73.99, at $59.19 it’s a steal.

Awesome reviews too.

Take Him Away Officer- He’s Guilty!

David’s birthday party at The Harbor Room In East Gloucester Was Just Perfect!  His Daughters and Son Did An Outstanding Job.

The food, the setting and the company were all just perfect. 

Babara Maddix when she was in high school sitting with Juni Van Dyke

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJMSpeiBoAL/

Al Bezanson submits-

I found Catherine’s post very interesting. The 1954 article includes some very alluring descriptions of the locations of two old military training or muster fields in West Gloucester.

The first is south of Concord St and in 1954 was known as the Currier Pasture. Does anyone know where that is located? According to the article, there are carvings in the granite that memorialize the use of the field by the Danvers Light Infantry in 1861. The carvings were in good condition in 1954 and might remain so today.

The second location said to have been used by the militia in 1776. Its location is obscure, said to be “somewhere off of Thompson street.” There is supposed to be an inscription on a granite boulder at that location as well.

Well, Thompson Street is easy enough to find. It connects with Concord St. just north of the Rte 128 underpass. Follow the road a few hundred yards and you come upon a City of Gloucester sign marking “The Old Thompson Street Historic Walking Path.” The path (which I have not yet trod) meets Bray Street where the Essex County Greenway has established the Thompson Street Reservation that contains a network of trails. Old Thompson continues across Bray St., through the woods, to the Walker Creek vicinity where I believe I once saw a sign marking its terminus.

Somewhere along Thompson St., there might exist a flat area that contains an inscribed boulder that would be an awesome Revolutionary War relic.

Does anyone have any information that might be useful in finding either of these two fields? Please share your knowledge in a posted comment.

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”

Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken (1880-1956)

An essayist and critic for the Baltimore Sun, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Mencken was a founding editor of the influential American Mercury. Often referred to as the “Sage of Baltimore”, Mencken’s notoriety was solidified by his acerbic coverage of what he called the Scopes Monkey Trial and his widely read book The American Language (1919). He was a follower of Nietzsche and counted Twain among his heroes. His support for Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, etc.) helped to launch her career. His distrust of the democratic process is on display in the above quote as well as the following: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”