Eagle Feathers #18 – The Poet

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

“Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, and new eras in their brains.” These words of the extraordinary poet, Samuel Walter Foss, were inscribed in granite on the rampart entrance to the parade field of the United States Air Force Academy for close to forty years. The words can now be found in the American Pavilion at Walt Disney’s EPCOT Center in Orlando, Florida. Foss was head librarian at the Somerville Public Library for 13 years, right up until his death in 1911 at the young age of fifty-three. His house was located at 249 Highland Avenue, just before Davis Square.

By Emmanuel Vincent

Global warming is considered by many to be a serious threat to our world as we know it.  Those who hold this view feel that without the proper education and actions taken place regarding the subject matter, the Earth that we are familiar with will be foreign to us in the future.

By Jim Clark

A police patrol unit observed a pickup truck traveling the wrong way down Newton St., which is a one-way street, last week.

The vehicle was followed to an Everett St. residence and the operator was subsequently detained and questioned by officers.

Girls Basketball Senior Indira Evora scored her 1,000th point on January 21, 2013 vs. the Vikings of Winthrop. Evora led the team with 24 points beating the Vikings 66-55. Evora is one of four  females in the history of the program to score 1,000 points for Somerville.

At 95, Somerville Bagel Bard Joseph A. Cohen can write one mean poem. An accomplished photographer, he moved to the Somerville area from Great Neck, N.Y. to be near his daughter. Here is a poem that recalls WWII, as only someone from the Greatest Generation can write.

Arrests:
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Micheal Crawford, 47, of 70 Bishop Allen Dr., Cambridge, January 14, 9:15 p.m., arrested at 3 Snow Terr. on a charge of felony nighttime breaking and entering.

Dina Dimartino, 34, of 16 Willard, Medford, January 15, 2:21 p.m., arrested at 52 Bay State Ave. on a charge of larceny over $250.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 2 Alderman Maryann Heuston and The Mayor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD), invite all interested community members to an informational meeting on the project design for the reconstruction of Beacon Street.

The 2013 SCATV Annual Meeting and Award Ceremony will take place on Thursday, January 24 at 7:00pm in the SCATV studio in Union Square, and will be cablecast live on Channel 3. The Annual Meeting will begin with comments from U.S. Representative Michael Capuano, Senator Pat Jehlen, and Representative Denise Provost, followed by short reports from SCATV Board of Directors and staff. Clips of some of the year’s best programs will be included, as well as awards for Volunteers of the Year.

City Hall and Somerville Public Schools will be closed and trash collection will be on a one-day delay. Parking  meters will not be in effect.