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Eagle Feathers #24 – April 19th
By Bob (Monty) Doherty
It was the day that colonial Americans stopped procrastinating and threw off the oxen yoke that England had put on her for over 150 years. It was the day that both Middlesex farmers and Boston businessmen put their lives and their holdings on the line in a rebellion against the powerful British Empire.
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Get all the details at Murat Recevik’s showing at Gallery 321.
By Sanjeev Selvarajah
“My new show, entitled All of those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain explores the re-purposing of discarded items into compositions that tell us a story about our past,” writes Murat Recevik.
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Ira Wood is not a physically imposing man, but as a wordsmith he is a commanding presence. Wood is the author of a number of novels including his highly touted first The Kitchen Man. His latest book is titled: You’re Married to Her? a memoir that concerns his life with famed poet/novelist/feminist Marge Piercy. Wood was an unknown, 26 year old writer, when he met the much older Piercy. They have been together now for 35 years. I had the pleasure to interview him on my Somerville Community Access TV show Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer.
Chad Parenteau was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in Bellingham, Massachusetts. He currently lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. Parenteau graduated from Framingham State College (now Framingham State University) and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His work has been published in Amethyst Arsenic, Shampoo, Wilderness House Literary Review, The Scrambler, and Salon. His chapbook Discarded: Poems for My Apartments was published by Červená Barva Press.
Firefighter Tom Ross works to extinguish flames spreading in a rear wall of 68-70 Holland Street on April 16. – Photo by Somerville Fire Department.
On April 16 at 11:08 a.m. the Somerville Fire Department responded to fire in a three unit dwelling fire at 68-70 Holland Street. Firefighters discovered a fire burning in a first floor rear stairway ceiling which had burnt through a rear wall to a second floor porch. Flames also spread through ceiling and wall spaces to the upper floors in the rear of the building. Firefighters had to open up numerous walls and ceilings to extinguish the fire. Damage is estimated in excess of $100,000 and displaced occupants of all three apartments. One firefighter was treated for a facial laceration at the scene. Firefighters cleared the scene at 1:06 p.m.
The cause of the fire has been determined to have been of electrical origin in the first floor rear stairway ceiling.
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(from the Somerville Police Website)
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Somerville Police are monitoring the tragic events that occurred today near the end of the Boston Marathon. We are in touch with Boston Police and the Boston Regional Intelligence Center as well as other state and Federal agencies. We will render any assistance to our neighbors as needed. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency has requested people in the Boston area to limit cell phone use for now to allow emergency responders to use these cell phone lines. Please try to communicate non urgent communications via text or email. If you were at the Marathon today and have any photos or video near the finish line, please contact Somerville Police or Boston Police.
Boston PD tip line: 1-800-494-8477.
Somerville PD: 617-625-1600
– Photos by Donald Norton
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