Word: railroads
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...Machine plays selections from their EP “Running of the Tree Frogs Week.” A cross between late Beatles, The Band, and Neil Young, Sand Machine will play alongside fellow Bostonians The Gulf, Freighttrain, and Medina Sod. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. $10. (JSA)Railroad Earth with Honkytonk Homeslice. This staple of the American roots music scene presents a blend of vocals and acoustic instrumentals to create its unique sound. Paradise Rock Club. 8 p.m. Tickets available through Next Ticketing. $15. (JDMC)The Figgs with Teenage Prayers and The Contact Highs. Together since their founding...
...wallet and the suspect fled across Park Street. SPD conducted an unsuccessful search for the suspect in the area. The alleged robbery took place at 63 Park Street, near the Harvard Center for Asian Studies. According to the Somerville police, this location is halfway down Park Street near a railroad crossing and Beacon Street. SPD received a call regarding the incident at 11:32 p.m. that same night from a resident of Sommerville. The suspect is described as a blonde, clean-shaven white male in his 20’s sporting a crew cut-style haircut, according to the HUPD...
...historically relevant option for urban Southern communities. It's a crossbreed of the shotgun and the dog trot, a similar house with large side doors "so the interior feels like it's spilling outside," he says. The Shot Trot retains the shotgun's basic shape but replaces its railroad-style rooms with an airier, more open-plan layout. Just 16 ft. by 80 ft., it's perfect for narrow inner-city lots. And to cut cost and complexity, it uses standard component sizes, like 4-ft.-by-8-ft. plywood sheets...
Hooray for Bill Gates, I guess. Hooray (long ago) for Marconi's gypsy cart, the telegraph. The transcontinental railroad was a marvelous new cart (though you get an argument on that from remnant buffalo and Sioux). The interstate highway system, brightest cultural blossom of the Eisenhower years, was a wonder. So were the electric carving knife, the fax machine and the splendid neckties and haircuts of the 1970s...
...every attic contains old Beatles tickets, of course. But people will also buy more mundane relics such as autograph books, railroad timetables or sets of love letters. Why? They do so for many reasons, say experts, not the least of which is living history. "People are intrigued by the past," says Jaben Broach, owner of CollecTons, an eBay drop-off shop in Boulder, Colo. "And often letters, diaries or ledgers reveal a time and place much better than any history book." Professional auctioneer G.G. (Gwen Glass) Carbone, author of How to Make a Fortune with Other People's Junk, sold...