DAY ONE: To get grounded, I chose a three-hour VIP Freedom Trail Tour by Walks (booked through City Experiences (www.cityexperiences.com/boston) which limits its group size to 15 people. The day I went, it was just me and a family of four. Our guide, Alexandra (Alex) Smith, was ...
While local councils tend to deal with trees that have fallen on public land, the average homeowner usually has to tackle fallen trees by themselves. But, the average homeowner may not have the tools or physical ability to remove larger fallen branches from their yards, fences or rooves. This...
The community centred around the lumber industry and its fortunes rose and fell with the supply of white pine. When Robert McCormick and his family arrived in 1866 they made a significant impact on the community. They owned the sawmill which also supplied materials to their shingles factory. The...
The new recreational trail means you can go from New York City north-south through the Hudson and Champlain Valley to Canada, and east-west from Albany to Buffalo along the Erie Canal on a safe and incredibly scenic pathway, discovering fascinating historic and cultural sites along the way. Th...
But, in addition to offering prepared fish dinners, all of these stores sell raw, uncooked seafood to go, mostly in dedicated fish shops that are part of their business. All this fresh fish talk is making me hungry! Let's take a look at a photo gallery of the best places in South Je...
Other days it was peanut butter and scraping up enough change to get back in the game, buy gas and run for beer. In those days of huge troop call ups, your GPA was directly tied to your draft status. My GPA followed me down the basement steps where those big beautiful Brunswick pool...
Welcome to Jane Dougherty's site. You will find posts about writing in general, my writing in particular, and random notes about where I live, and my animals and other family. Thanks for dropping in. As of October 27 2020 my first chapbook of poetry thic
and masculine sentence structure and overall delivery of the book. Some of the sentences struck me as non sequiturs. Others sounded like they must have been manufactured. The prose got the story across in a way that seemed at times lumbered, at times inspired, and at still other times sacr...
Now, Della, what do you know about me getting a letter from the Bow and Arrow Man of Woodville. He’s on the warpath. It seems, against the slaughter of magnolias. “I am sorry the automobile manufacturer ever found out that magnolia lumber makes good auto bodies,” he wrote. “The ...
Tucked between the snow covered peaks of the Cascade Mountains and the high desert plateaus of Central Oregon, Bend evolved from a sleepy lumber town to an international mecca for outdoor enthusiasts. But I’ll be honest. After a four-day trip with the kids, my husband and I were more af...