Tag Archives: snow

Jesse Winchester RIP

April 14, 2014 – 1:43 pm

Back in 1970 I found an LP by a folksinger named Jesse Winchester. I loved this LP, especially the songs YANKEE LADY, SNOW, and THE BRAND NEW TENNESSEE WALTZ. Jesse Winchester never played in Boston or Cambridge or anyplace in the USA, since he had fled the USA to avoid the Draft in 1967 after […]

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Snow Now Haiku

February 19, 2014 – 8:25 pm

New England forest in the snow. White going gray. The light going white. Foto by Aleta Wolfe

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Atlanta Driving School

January 30, 2014 – 11:46 am

The polar vortex stabbed south and wreaked havoc with traffic in Atlanta. The mayor should have called off school, because thousands of students were stranded by the storm. People down there don’t know how to drive in snow. But they’re going to learn.

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Neither Snow Nor Sleet

February 9, 2013 – 4:21 pm

[1] While the United States Postal Service has no official creed or motto the words ‘Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.’ are carved into Manhattan’s James Farley Post Office. According to Wikipedia the phrase was derived from a Herodutus translation […]

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Car Crash In Snow Stupid Funny

December 27, 2010 – 1:59 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6_ghixVN78&feature=related I don’t know where these people are going, but they obviously haven’t heard about sitting out a storm.

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