Taylor Mill Historic Site, Derry, NH
Social media has been filled the past several weeks with information about Black Friday (hmmm- doesn’t sound so good to me!) and #optoutside, an effort that started with REI to go against the tide and refuse to open their stories the day after Thanksgiving. REI, and soon others, encouraged people to step out of the retail lines and into the outdoors.
Some of our family did just that today. We headed up to southern New Hampshire to get outside with my sister. Continue reading
Joe DiPietro has been a fixture in the Bellingham, MA educational program for as long as many of us can remember. He was the superintendent of Bellingham Schools his last five years in the school system, and before that he taught high school, was a guidance director and spent twenty-five years as elementary school principal of South School Elementary, Pinecrest, Keough, the old South School and Assumption School when it was under the purview of the Bellingham School Department. [As told to Marjorie Turner Hollman] 
Pierrette Corriveau was born in Bellingham, MA at Silver Lake, but says that she and her mother must have been transported to Woonsocket, RI immediately afterwards since her birth was registered in Woonsocket. She has stayed in this area her whole life, raising seven children with her husband, the late Eugene Corriveau, who for many years was the town collector and Treasurer in Bellingham. [As told to Marjorie Turner Hollman] 
