Hey you political junkies! Head on up to the UMass library for a great display of some of the political memorabilia that the University has collected over the centuries.
It features all kinds of wonderful stuff, including rarities that collectors would drool over, such as these obscure items from the 1968 campaign of George Wallace, an Alabama governor who ran as a third party candidate and carried five southern states.
They have a magnificent collection of Kennedy memorabilia, some of which would no doubt draw many thousands of dollars on the collectors market. I never knew there was a Kennedy board game in which the First Family takes over Mount Rushmore. Notice that Carolyn and John-John are among the contenders.
The display is excellent with just one glaring omission - there is nothing in it about Calvin Coolidge! Since Coolidge was a former Northampton mayor, Massachusetts Governor and the only resident of the Pioneer Valley to be elected to the presidency, that is not a minor oversight.
Meanwhile, yesterday I went to the Northampton Jazz Festival.
It was cool, man, cool, like this chilltown ride parked by the curb.
Three flags in Florence.
A truck in Chicopee.
Former Massachusetts Governor and 2016 Libertarian Party vice-presidential candidate Bill Weld has endorsed John Deaton in his race to replace Elizabeth Warren in the U.S. Senate.
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