This morning at John Eliot Square in Roxbury, the rider representing William Dawes introduced himself to the audience assembled at the First Church of Roxbury by reciting the poem immortalizing his patriotic ride by Helen Moore. After a blessing of the horses by the Reverend Mary Margaret Earl, leader of the Unitarian Urban Ministry, Mr....
For those of us in the northeast corner of the country, what could be more fun than kicking off a project in sunny Port Hueneme, California, where the temperature is a steady 70 degrees all year round. Our destination was the Naval construction Battalion Center, Building 1444, the Center for Seabee Facilities and Engineering is...
During our visit in December to the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, a gigantic temporary enclosure was being erected over the iconic entry to Auschwitz II, commonly known as Birkenau, for the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation on January 28,1945 by the Ukrainian Front (part of the Red Army). Established as a Museum by the...
Last month my partner and I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland. Named for the existing villages that were taken over by the German army to build first, a camp for Polish political prisoners, Auschwitz 1, and second, a camp for both forced labor and extermination, Auschwitz 2, or more commonly known as...
This aerial image of Long Island was built one mosaic unit at a time using the USGS Earth Explorer web page. There are 494 mosaic images required to show Long Island and the parts of New York state and Connecticut that border Long Island Sound. An aerial image of Long Island from the US Food...