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’
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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
The Parsons come home: 80 descendents of Cornet Joseph Parsons, one of Northampton’s original settlers, reunite for a 100th family reunion
By Bob Flaherty For the Gazette Published: 7/31/2023 9:07:51 PM NORTHAMPTON — “There’s wickedness in this place!” “I am innocent and God knows it! “Goody Parsons, I am not the source of your despair — you have been entertaining Satan in Northampton!” The shrieks pierced the air inside the ballroom of Hotel Northampton Saturday as events … Continue reading The Parsons come home: 80 descendents of Cornet Joseph Parsons, one of Northampton’s original settlers, reunite for a 100th family reunion
The joys of overcoming: Juneteenth event remembers, confronts, moves forward
Published in the Daily hampshire gazette june 19, 2023 AMHERST — “Left-Left-Left-Left-Right-Left!” Shaking off the rain that canceled Saturday’s Ancestral Bridges’ Juneteenth walking tour, the legendary all-Black Peter Grace 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment of Civil War fame began their march in the backyard of the Amherst Woman’s Club and made their steady way through the … Continue reading The joys of overcoming: Juneteenth event remembers, confronts, moves forward
‘Celebrate But Continue To Fight’: UMass’ Cannabis Reform Coalition is alive and well with a new name and mission
By Bob Flaherty | Published in the Valley Advocate May 2, 2023 “It was my duty,” said UMass junior Liz Mawrey, upon taking the reins of a legendary but nearly dormant outfit that fought to reform brutal and inane marijuana laws for over 30 years. In the fall of 2021 a post appeared in the … Continue reading ‘Celebrate But Continue To Fight’: UMass’ Cannabis Reform Coalition is alive and well with a new name and mission
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