"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Well, maybe not. Records have surfaced indicating Louis Armstrong's actual birthday was Aug. 4, 1901, rather than, as he believed throughout his life, July 4, 1900.
But what better day than the Fourth of July to celebrate the icon of America's music?
A Fourth of July recommendation to Bay Staters unwilling to brave the Esplanade: Marblehead Harbor, illuminated, with fireworks overhead, is a memorable sight, viewed by much of the town's population from a park on an adjoining hillside: The vista is definitely worth the tramp through the woods.
And for North Shore inspiration any day of the year, visit Commonwealth Editions, a Beverly publisher of books on coastal Massachusetts and New England.
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