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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Decade


Tomorrow starts a new decade? Wow, where did the time go? If you want to see where I am in the soon to be born new decade, look up because I will be rising!

Monday, December 23, 2019

Melt


Ice obscures the view of the Fine Arts Center.


It melts....


....and melts.


More from my wall.


A glowing showcase in the Haymarket.


Passing through downtown Hamp, I came upon multi-media dude Scott Coen looking pretty sharp strolling down the avenue.


Posing with a Valley internet pioneer.





Thursday, December 12, 2019

In December

A corner of a room where I live.


Psychedelic heroes in a downtown Northampton window.


It's been snowing a lot around here.


Before the rain came, the snow was piled high in the streets.


On Conz Street, there is something called The Resistance Center.


They appear to be wrong on nearly every issue.


What is with this mailbox further down Conz Street, which is the obsessive target of a police hating activist?


No matter how many times citizens rip off the sticker, someone comes right back with another.


I wonder if the sticker is being put up by someone on their way to or from The Resistance Center?


Sno-bear at UMass.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Arlo Day


Emerging from the tunnel into the light of the woodland way into downtown Northampton.


Downtown passersby have been urged to put up suggestions on post-it notes for what will become of the old Faces space.


Someone didn't like this suggestion and threw it in a nearby puddle.


A newspaper for today in downtown Amherst.


Brave words from Amherst College Professor Robert Frost on a street light box.


This year marks the 50 year anniversary of Massachusetts' own Arlo Guthrie's Thanksgiving song Alice's Restaurant.


Arlo in Holyoke in August 2019.


HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!


Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Posted


What the fuck is art?


Is it feet passing by....


.... a purple stencil on a UMass sidewalk?


At UMass there are walls of posters. Here's one in the Integrative Learning Center.


Here's another.


What on Earth?


Beyond absurd.


A Sanders sign on King Street in Northampton.


Weirding out in Hamp this summer.



UMass sunset.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Second Amendment Tree


On Main Street in Northampton by the old courthouse, I found this image stenciled and painted on the sidewalk.


It isn't hard to figure out that it is a reference to the recently deceased Francis Crowe.

Nearby is this small tree, which commemorates the tragic murder of Sherry Morton and her son Cedric.


The tree is sometimes called "The Second Amendment Tree" because to this day the Northampton community remains haunted by the question, "What if Sherry Morton had a gun?"

Way back in 1995 I interviewed Sherry Morton's mother Yoko Kato for TV40 in what was her first television interview.



It ain't even Thanksgiving, in fact, Mama Iguana still has their Halloween pumpkins out front.


However, that hasn't stopped the city from putting up the Christmas lights.


In Amherst yesterday, I ran into my Springfield homie Kevin Noonan. He is back in the Valley after a few years down South and is running the Amherst homeless shelter.


Here is Kevin in his Springfield days, which you can read about here in a 2009 essay by the late Michaelann Bewsee.


In yet another blast from the past, here's a graphic from the September 1996 issue of The Baystate Objectivist showing an angry mob attacking a castle bearing the seal of the City of Springfield.


Finally....


Monday, October 28, 2019

Late October


My foot upon the woodland way into downtown Northampton. 




 

A beautiful setting despite the wind and the rain.




 

Look who swung by the UMass Library!




 

His first stop was Procrastination Station to scarf down some bagels.

 


 

No one minds him coming by, as he never takes any of the seats. 




 

Pine Point Queen Marilyn Vennell was going by some of her old haunts and decided to take a few pics, like this one of the former gallery of Doyle the Twig Painter




 

Here's Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, where my great-grandfather did some of the interior woodwork when it was first built.

 


 

Flashback - When David Starr met Superman.