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Wakefield author Bob McLaughlin publishes history of ‘Magic Mountain’

07May16

By MARK SARDELLA It all started when he purchased nine Pleasure Island postcards at a local church antiques show. Since then, Wakefield’s Robert McLaughlin has written five books and turned himself into one of the country’s leading experts on American theme parks. His latest book, Magic Mountain was published last week and tells the story […]

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Tags: amusement parks, Arcadia Publishing, Baby Boomers, Bob McLaughlin, C.V. Wood, Colorado, Disneyland, Freedomland, Golden Colorado, Heritage Square, Magic Mountain, Marco Engineering, Mark Sardella, New York City, Pleasure Island, Robert McLaughlin, theme parks, trolly parks, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Walt Disney, Walter F. Cobb, westerns

‘Angels in America Part 2 – Perestroika’ at the Umbrella in Concord, MA

08Oct14

Through October 18, 2014 The Umbrella’s current presentation of Angels in America Part 2 – Perestroika marks the culmination of Director Nancy Curran Willis’ second time around with Tony Kushner’s epic about the dawn of the AIDS epidemic. In 2008, Willis won an Elliot Norton Award (with co-director Jason Southerland) for Boston Theatre Works production […]

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Tags: AIDS, Angels in America, Concord MA, Damon Singletary, David Berti, Emerson Community Arts Center, Ethel Rosenberg, James Barton, Jennifer Shea, Kendall Hodder, Liz Robbins, Mark Sardella, Nancy Curran Willis, New York City, Perestroika, Peyton Pugmire, Roy Cohn, Sharon Mason, Tony Kushner

Remember How We Felt on 9/11

08Sep11

Every generation has one of those “always remember where you were” dates. For the Greatest Generation, it was Pearl Harbor. For the Baby Boomers, it was the JFK assassination. September 11, 2001 is one of those dates. The 10th anniversary of 9/11 is upon us, and even more than any of the preceding anniversaries, the […]

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Have We Forgotten 9/11?

11Sep09

In a column earlier this year, I apparently offended a few people when I offered the following observation. “For too many Americans the emotional memory of the horror and outrage of 9/11 has faded.” On the eighth anniversary of September 11, 2001, it seems an appropriate time to address the matter of how we remember […]

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Posts Tagged ‘New York City’

Wakefield author Bob McLaughlin publishes history of ‘Magic Mountain’

‘Angels in America Part 2 – Perestroika’ at the Umbrella in Concord, MA

Remember How We Felt on 9/11

Have We Forgotten 9/11?

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