Category Archives: 60s

Da Quincy Quarries

October 20, 2014 – 9:04 pm

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Berth on Nantucket

October 20, 2014 – 12:48 pm

Frank Sinatra brought his 21 year-old bride Mia Farrow to Nantucket on a rented yacht. My family was holidaying on that mythic isle at the same time. Mia had just finished filming ROSEMARY’S BABY. Mia Farrow was five years older than me. Not like Frank Sinatra, but my love was reserved for Janet Stetson, who […]

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Smash Everything

October 5, 2014 – 5:58 pm

I grew up in New England. People had lived underneath Big Blue Hill or Massachusett for hundreds of years. Behind my house on the South Shore was a small woods. Old mounds rose from the dirt. Tipping pits filled with trash from the 1800s and further back into time. Some Indian. Some colonial. History. We […]

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Yesterday’s Children – Hunter’s Moon

October 5, 2014 – 5:16 pm
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XKE Jaguar In Reverse

September 20, 2014 – 7:37 pm

The XKE Jaguar convertible was the epitome of 1960s British cool, but upon seeing this photo I somehow recalled two motorhead brothers in 1968 attempting to rearrange the sleek convertible’s configuration in reverse. The twins from the South Shore of Boston switched the transmission and the steering to the rear. The adults on Anderson Street […]

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