Archive for October, 2013
Storybook Ending
Game 2 of the 2013 ALCS was One for the Ages David Mamet couldn’t have written a better script. We headed into Boston for game 2 of the 2013 American League Championship Series with the Red Sox already down one game to the Detroit Tigers. Another loss would have put the home team down 0-2 […]
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Tags: 2013 ALCS, Bob Marley, Boston Red Sox, Dave Roberts, Detroit Tigers, Fenway Park, Mark Sardella, new england patriots, Sausage King, Shane Victorino, Tom Brady, Wakefield Daily Item
The Walton Family Legacy
Part 3 of a series on the Walton Family of Wakefield, Massachusetts [Part 1 ; Part 2] Mary E. Walton did not live to see her granddaughter, Mary C. Walton, marry Valentine Giamatti. But her husband, 82 year-old Arthur G. Walton did attend the elegant wedding in South Berwick, Maine on July 3, 1937, just […]
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Tags: A. Bartlett Giamatti, Arthur G. Walton, Bart Giamatti, baseball, MA, Mark Sardella, Paul Giamatti, Pete Rose, Wakefield Massachusetts, Walton, Walton Family
October Surprise
Or how my photo of the Hood Blimp made the Official Red Sox Post-season Program Lord knows I waste my share of time on social media, even though I’ve never been a huge Facebook user and by most standards, tweeting 7,000 times and sharing 4,000 photos on Flickr barely qualifies me as a piker among […]
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Tags: ALDS, baseball, Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park, Hood, Hood Blimp, Mark Sardella, photo, photography, Richard Tisei, Scott Brown, social media