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...Michael Spire (guitar, amp) -- Along Brattle Street, Spiro plays three or four times a week. He writes and performs "comedy music" since "it's less boring than playing Neil Young and James Taylor songs all night." He is particularly proud of his song "Music, Sex, and Cookies," which played nationally on the Dr. Demento show...
...bell stop Memorial Hall--in the spire that has since burned down--used to ring on the hour, as Memorial Church's bell does now, signifying the end of class periods...
Mornings near sunrise, John Williams, a national park service ranger at the monument grounds, wheels his Toyota up out of the underpasses near the Kennedy Center. When he sees the spire, he feels better. The monument always says something a little different when it greets him. The Maryland marble of which it is constructed has a special quality that picks up the light of the hour and seems to subtly intensify it. "There it is," Williams says to himself, and then he studies the graceful shape to see what shades of gold or pink or gray are mixed...
...town, has folded and been taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. "We're here," she says, "until things are cleaned up." The closing is a severe blow to Dannebrog, a farming village of 380, where the landmarks are groves of giant sycamore trees, a Lutheran church spire and the Silver Dollar Bar. Ray Johnson, owner of Johnson Grocery, may drop plans to double his store's size by moving it across Main Street to the building where the Lions Club meets. Says he: "The closing of the bank is going to hurt our community so much that, unless...
Your retelling of D-day reminded me of my landing on Juno Beach with the Canadian 3rd Division. My first contact with the French occurred when I encountered the village cure. He had a sour look, perhaps because a shell had torn a hole in the spire of his 17th century church. "Bonjour, Monsieur le Curé," I greeted him. "Are you happy that we have come?" "Yes," he replied, "but I will be happier when you leave." Memories like this give me mixed emotions when I march with my fellow veteran survivors...