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Day 63: Newbury St
Followed by lunch at the Creperie on Newbury.
Day 45: Coffee & papers
Perhaps the only good reason for abandoning the guaranteed comfort of the pleasantly familiar is the discovery of an even more pleasant unknown – such as Trident Booksellers and Cafe
Day 44: Bay Village and Back Bay
Breakfast at Mike and Patty’s followed by coffee at the Wired Puppy
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Day 40: Coffee & Papers
Sunday bliss at Pavement Coffeehouse (Newbury St). Catching up with news, fieldwork journal etc and getting ready for the endgame of the chapter’s final few sections.
Placeworlds
“Place can function as the most powerful organizing theme of shared meaning. Street corners and neighborhoods, parks and schools, monuments and memorials— these are not just spots on a map. They are what hold the abstraction of social life together” … Continue reading
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“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.” (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
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Day 14: Back in town
Back in town. Funding bid on media literacy and civic learning submitted after months of preparations. Celebrated with a jazz CDs shopping spree at Newbury Comics. Particularly intrigued by The JFK Quintet: New Jazz Frontiers from Washington (1961 recording, “inspired … Continue reading
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