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In central Massachusetts, on the southern end of Worcester County, east of the town of Webster, lies Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
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A couple of Internet sources explain that the lake’s name is Nipmuc (Algonquian) for “You fish on your side; I fish on my side; nobody fishes in the middle.” I suspect that the Native American [...]

In an almost scifi start to the new year, SpaceFellowship.com writes New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced “Virgin Galactic has signed a 20 year lease agreement with the State of New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s world headquarters will be established in New Mexico and its operations will be located at New Mexico’s Spaceport America, the nation’s [...]

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One of my college buddies, John Graham, has started an online travel website called Grahamgetaways.com. The website is a Referring Travel Agent site for YTB Travel Network, but operates just like other Internet travel sites such as Expedia or Travelocity.
However, if you peruse Grahamgetaways.com, you’ll find that many of the prices are better than the [...]

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It’s been unusually warm this winter. From a global perspective it’s not out of the ordinary because earthly weather patterns are in an el Niño cycle. It being a nice day, we thought we’d head up to L.L. Bean on Saturday and air ourselves out a bit while enjoying some shopping without huge mobs of [...]

Randye and I couldn’t have asked for better weather this past weekend. On Saturday, I was weeding a heinous strip of crab grass in our woodchips when our friend Mike called. “Hey,” he said, “I’m heading up to Salem to meet some friends to hang out at a local bar and today is the Maritime [...]

On the advice of Randye’s parents, we stopped at the Blue Colony Diner in Newtown, Conn. The diner is located approximately half-way between her folks’ house in New Jersey and our house. Randye loved it because it had a huge menu of breakfast, lunch, dinner and other diner morsels that we don’t find at the [...]