Category Archives: New England

Tonight’s Light Show

April 13, 2013 – 6:17 pm

In the Spring of 1963 my father called us out of our split-level ranch house in the Blue Hills south of Boston. He excitedly pointed to the sky. My brothers, sisters, mother, and I scanned the night for UFOs and I was the first to spot the reason for us standing on the lawn in [...]

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Whales for Sale USA

February 20, 2013 – 8:49 pm

Back in 2007 two humpback whales became befuddled by the backwash of mobile phones in San Francisco Bay and swam seventy miles up the Sacramento River. Oceanologists failed to seduce the errant sea mammals to the open sea with love sirens from other whales and Japanese researchers offered to lend California marine biologists a sonar [...]

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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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How Cold Was It?

January 4, 2013 – 5:45 pm

A young couple purchased an old home in Northern Maine from two elderly sisters. “How you survive winter up here?” “No problem,” the older sister answered with Yankee terseness. The young couple bought the house, but with the approach of Winter the husband was concerned about the house’s lack of insulation. “If they could live [...]

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COLD AS IT GETS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 4, 2013 – 2:55 pm

Mount Washington was far from the tallest mountain on the face of the Earth, however the summit observatory had recorded some of the most extreme weather including the strongest wind ever measured on the planet. 231 mph (372 km/h) and the lowest temperatures on Agiocochook, or “Home of the Great Spirit” regularly drop as low [...]

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