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The Acela sped through the Roxbury Crossing T station in Boston at mid-speed this afternoon and your humble narrator was whisked back in time when he realized this very train had shortly before been in his old home town, New London, Conn., where women...
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on Aug 19 2008, 08:30 PM
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Not that I blame anyone for not jumping onboard. Who doesn't have anything better to do than surf the internet and check up on the opinions of crackpots. I have looked at other towns in the scintillating zip06 universe and cannot blame anyone for...
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on Aug 12 2008, 06:40 PM
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Since the recent jump in gasoline prices and the attendant jump in ridership, Amtrak has been advertising like they've just discovered it. In Boston they are touting the benefits of the 'Northeast Regional', what you and I know as the Acela...
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on Aug 01 2008, 08:45 PM
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Friday comes to a close but New London never shuts up shop. The streets will be busy tonight: Bank Street, State Street, Truman Street, Coleman Street, Jefferson Avenue. The hotel rooms will be booked. Please do not disturb. The Millenium Inn has no vacancy...
Posted by whaleheadking
on Jul 25 2008, 09:22 PM
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Keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool. New London is like that. While life heats up downtown, things are quiet around Trumbull Neck. Sometimes appearances aren't decieving. If tumbleweeds were native to Connecticut, they would be blowing past...
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on Jul 21 2008, 05:14 PM
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Is Sailfest over already? Pinch me. It seems the good times can just keep going on and on. In the interlude between the second weekend in July and the last weekend in January, New London doesn't slumber so much as tuck its pant legs into its boots...
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on Jul 16 2008, 03:56 PM
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The fried dough is crispier around the edges and more powdery on top this year. 2008 will be remembered as the year that vendors' fry-o-lators were free of transfats. Or were they? Ateries may have been clogged by spicy, Italian-style sausage and...
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on Jul 12 2008, 05:45 PM
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DATELINE: BOSTON, MASS. JULY 9, 2008. Has New London hired a marketing director and no one told me? First the New York Times names New London as the fifth best vacation destination in New England. Some people credit Maura Casey for this product placement...
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on Jul 10 2008, 06:24 PM
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Filed under: New London, Boston, Civic Pride, City Living, Whalehead King, community, poetry, publicity, tourists, Flavors of Life, newspapers, NY Times
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Like much that goes under-reported in New London, Conn., a poetry war has been alternating between simmer and boil for about a year. The Whaling City's scribbling class has been packing shivs and engaging in rumbles off Washington Street, Central...
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on Jul 08 2008, 06:30 PM
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I liked the old Fort Trumbull Neck. I haven't been by recently, but I assume it is still the moonscape it was when I was last in Connecticut's Whaling City. Cocorran Jennison was hired to masterly develop this dynamited neighborhood along the...
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on Jun 25 2008, 07:46 PM
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Traipse down South Water Street in the rain with the Thames River at your right. The ferries blow their whistles as the train rumbles to its station. The rain spatters happiness in a measure to match your joy. The angels in Heaven are weeping with bliss...
Posted by whaleheadking
on Jun 24 2008, 04:36 PM
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BostonNOW was a free newspaper delivered to commuters taking mass transit, in Boston's case that would mean major bus depots and T (subway) stations. The paper was out for a year and was on the verge of making a profit. It was bankrolled by an Icelandic...
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on Jun 22 2008, 03:37 PM
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I admit I an no fan of Shoreline Publishing or The Day. I haven't investigated this site's relationship to these two intertwined entities mainly because I don't want my hands smelling like rotten fish. Despite that, I think that this web site...
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on Jun 21 2008, 05:20 PM
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What makes New London so scooter-ific? Its small size is one enticement. You can get from the Arboretum to Ocean Beach in about 5 minutes travelling the maximum 50cc engine speed of 35 mph. Though New London is small in area, it is laid in an intricate...
Posted by whaleheadking
on Jun 18 2008, 06:30 PM
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Far removed from New London, nowadays, in a city of 600,000 vs. one of 26,000 citizens, our man on the scooter still has his eye on Connecticut's Whaling City. What does he know about current events? Little. What does he know about New London's...
Posted by whaleheadking
on Jun 15 2008, 05:30 PM
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