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SNOW DAY by Peter Nolan Smith

January 19, 2024 – 10:41 am

Several years ago I woke up to a heavy snow falling fast on the Fort Greene Observatory and I asked the head curator AP, if he was sending his two young children to school. “Of course I am.” AP worked from home and his kids like all kids were attention-seekers. “So no snow day?” The […]

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Fuck Beaver Country Day School

February 3, 2010 – 8:37 pm

In the 1960s all Boston area teenagers envied Beaver Country Day School in Newton, for the slightest accumulation of snow gifted them with a snow day, while the rest of us had to slog to school uphill and barefooted. My younger brother once theorized that the snowfall in Newton was heavier than the other towns […]

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