Published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette Nov. 3 2024 There will be tears shed on this day, by grown men and women alike, not of sadness nor of defeat, but of the kind very hard to put into words.Joyful noise Turning the corner onto University Drive in Amherst on a brisk and golden Saturday on … Continue reading Chance Encounters with Bob Flaherty: A heartful of sound: Band Day with the ‘power and class of New England’
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A century ago, Mayor Cal showed his ‘cool’
Published: 8/2/2023 6:13:49 PM Editor’s note: This column written by Bob Flaherty, then a Gazette reporter, originally ran in November 2009. NORTHAMPTON — So he was cool after all. Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president, whose stern gaze is forever fixed on the comings and goings of the King Street theater that bears his name — … Continue reading A century ago, Mayor Cal showed his ‘cool’
The climb to the White House: 100 years ago today, Northampton’s Calvin Coolidge rose to the presidency
By BOB FLAHERTY For the Gazette Published: 8/2/2023 6:09:10 PM One hundred years ago last night, Vice President Calvin Coolidge of Northampton went to bed. He and his wife Grace had taken leave of Washington and were visiting his father in rural Plymouth Notch, Vermont, sleeping in the very house he’d grown up in. Coolidge homestead … Continue reading The climb to the White House: 100 years ago today, Northampton’s Calvin Coolidge rose to the presidency
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