“Lights, camera, Adamsville!” The headline emblazoned on the front page of the June 26, 2025 Sakonnet Times ran atop a story by reporter Christian Silvia about the presence in Little Compton that week of film actor Jake Gyllenhaal, director M. Night Shyamalan, and their supporting troupe of performers and technicians. The filmmakers had arrived to…Continue readingLittle Compton movie notes, contemporary and historical–including when the town spurned “The Witches of Eastwick”
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NOTE: This post has been updated to delete unedited material inadvertently appended to the original version. “We think it is important that you hear from us.” Phillip Eng, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), at a February 10 public meeting I attended with about 100 other interested citizens…Continue readingSouth Coast Rail service begins March 24
* * * “The first Appalachian Trail Conference [ATC] was called by the Federated Societies, at the request of the Regional Planning Association of America, to take place at Washington, D.C., on March 2 and 3, 1925.” Thus begins the eight-page, double-spaced typescript titled “Brief of Proceedings of the Appalachian Trail Conference.”…Continue reading“The Conference was made a permanent body”: The first meeting of the organization that created the Appalachian Trail, March 2-3, 1925
In my upbeat and too-credulous February 22, 2024 post about the status and progress of the South Coast Rail (SCR) project, which will return passenger rail service between Boston and the cities of Fall River and New Bedford for the first time in more than 60 years, I wrote: “Completion of the project’s Phase 1…Continue readingWaiting for the train: Further delays for South Coast Rail
The large digital thermometer at the trailhead parking lot registered 91 degrees as Nan and I began our mid-day, mid-April, round-trip walk along the roughly 4-mile Historic Railroad Trail, which follows an abandoned railbed from the Lake Mead Visitors Center to Hoover Dam. We had expected somewhat more moderate temperatures at this time of…Continue readingA hot hike to Hoover Dam–and a look back at “the NEW Las Vegas”