The Memorial Day holiday should be to secularists what Easter is to Christians, the holiest of holies. Instead, it has become a dumping ground for bargain hunters or the starting line for the summer drunk fest.
With grief from the Civil War still fresh in 1868, Rhode Island’s veterans slipped into their old blue Union uniforms and marched in a procession alongside carriages packed with crosses and flowers, to decorate the graves of their friends and brothers who had died fighting the Confederacy.
Paul Klee's "To The Right, to the Left " is part of "Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects," closing Sunday at the Phillps Collection. (¿ 2008 Artists Rights Society (Ars), New York/vg Bild-kunst, Bonn)
MILFORD -- One after another, Hillsborough County's full-time softwood sawmills have ground to a halt. But Wilkins Lumber, whose driveway on Route 13 is marked by signs declaring "Finish Lumber" and "We deliver bark mulch," survives, and has for 200 years. - By WENDY DePUY Staff Writer
Courtesy photo Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet will appear June 5, starting at 7 p.m. at the IOKA Theatre, 55 Water St., Exeter, to benefit the Workforce Housing Coalition. Tickets: $32/$36.50 online, 781-8922.
Mr MARIO CORRIERI and Miss CLAUDIA CASTILLO The marriage between MARIO and CLAUDIA was celebrated on May 23, 1963, at Balzan parish church. Love and God bless. Gabriella and Richie, Daniela and Frederick, Giampiero and Lara, Fritz, Nicky, Abigail, Julian, Sophie, Matthew and Francesco.
Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (June 29-Sept. 14 at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton). We play in it, loll on it, build castles out of it, and wash it out of our hair, but what, exactly, does sand mean? Its physical and metaphysical significance is explored in this show at the Parrish that gathers together an extensive and extremely diverse bunch of artistic all-stars, from the 19th century
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