Eagle Feathers #168 – The Raiders

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

Two hundred forty-five years ago this week, the spark that ignited American freedom took place at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston Harbor. It began in 1767 when England imposed upon the colonists the Townshend Acts that taxed glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

Somerville poet and artist Kirk Etherton has this poetry display up in the Market Basket, my supermarket of choice. You can pick up a free poem, along with your frozen vegetables.

— Doug Holder

Join The Welcome Project as they celebrate International Migrants Day. They will showcase art and highlight stories of immigration from the community. They will also be launching their immigration quilt and inviting everyone to participate in their project. Appetizers will be served. Tuesday, December 18, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. 135 Broadway, Somerville. RSVP at  https://www.facebook.com/events/326949207892665/?active_tab=about.

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Review by Timothy Gager

There’s something wrong with you if these poems don’t speak to you. If they don’t speak to you it means you are not vulnerable. It means you are uncomfortable when someone is completely honest with you. It means someone sitting next to you on an airplane who is about to tell you the most incredible story you’ve heard in your life and is silenced because you are too busy to listen.

Lawrence Kessenich won the 2010 Strokestown International Poetry Prize. His poetry has been widely published, including in the Sewanee Review, and Poetry Ireland. His chapbook was published by Pudding House Publications in 2008. In 2012, his poem Underground Jesus was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Kessenich has also published essays, one of which was featured on NPR’s This I Believe in 2010 and appears in the anthology This I Believe: On Love. A number of his plays have been produced. He is the author of the novel Cinnamon Girl. He is a Somerville Bagel Bard.

Arrests:
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Shukry Juma, of 41 Corey St., Charlestown, December 3, 6:49 p.m., arrested at 1 Davis Sq. on a charge of disorderly conduct.

Thomas Perrotta, December 3, 8:22 p.m., arrested at Revolution Dr. on warrant charges of shoplifting by asportation, shoplifting by concealing merchandise, shoplifting over $250 by asportation, and larceny by check over $1200.

Please join Ward 6 Alderman Lance Davis, members of the Brown School staff, and the City of Somerville Parks and Open Space Department to discuss renovation ideas for the Brown School schoolyard. We want to hear your thoughts before selecting a landscape architect for the project.

Let the rejoicing commence! The  Annual Boston Christmas Cavalcade for the Homeless will take place at the ONCE Ballroom at 156 Highland Ave., Somerville on Wednesday, December 19. All performer proceeds go to benefit the Somerville Homeless Coalition.

This event, along with a version on Cape Cod, has, over the past decade and a half, become a great seasonal live music tradition, and kind of a homecoming for many of the area’s finest musicians.