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...Hatch, Richard •persecution complex...
...feel it from a block away. As I moseyed down Arlington, shi-shi Newbury Street on my left and the Commons to my right, I could tell that tonight wasn’t just any night in Boston. When I reached the peak of the bridge leading into the Hatch Shell, my suspicions were confirmed. People—everywhere. Smooshed together as far as the eye could see, seated on lawn chairs or sprawled on blankets, snacking and chatting, just soaking in the dusk-hour breeze. “This is summer,” I thought to myself...
...radio station—K-EARTH 101. By the time I was five, I knew the lyrics to every Motown hit, every Beatles tune, every Supremes single. So, although I have long grown out of my childhood obsession with the 1960s, I couldn’t pass up the Hatch Shell’s free, outdoor concert series, sponsored by Oldies 103.3. And when I found out that on July 25, in the height of summer, the most quintessential So-Cal band would take the stage? Well, it didn’t really seem like a choice...
...considerably less sanguine, however, about the incubator in which Stone Barns hatches its chicks. In Extremadura, Sousa's geese build nests and hatch their own eggs; incubators, in his opinion, not only result in weaker birds, but also make it impossible to "convince" the geese that they're wild. Presented with a still wet Stone Barns chick, pulled from its heating tray, he shakes his head sadly. "If you wanted to raise a baby Rambo, would you want him living rough out in the country or coddled in an intensive-care unit...
...tough to envision that type of thing happening here, [if only] because we have so much land compared to South Korea. They value every square inch because they have to. But it's certainly possible that somebody could one day hatch a plan to add developed land to, say, Manhattan or the San Francisco peninsula...