happy muthas day

woodman's fried clams

Not much more to say here. Rocky New England coast on a plate. Less is more etc. #lunchtime
Filmed at Woodman's.

book sale coming up at somerville (ma) central branch

Been busy in the off-hours helping The Friends of the Somerville Public Library organize their upcoming Spring Book Sale. If any Cambridge/Medford/Somerville types care to assist please email me at friendssomervillepubliclibrary@gmail.com.

The 3-day book sale is great, with prices ranging from $1 all the way up to $2... I'll be roaming the floor on Friday so drop in. On Saturday May 19th we are aligned with Somerville's PorchFest and will have 3 performances in the forecourt outside; Yani Batteau 12-2pm (vintage country - banjo), Jordan Voelker 2-3ish (sing-alongs with tunes on the fiddle, ukulele, autoharp, and musical saw - nice), and Flightless Buttress 3ish-4ish (guitar, cello, dulcimer? classical meets classic rock but more than that really). Anyway, full slate.

Just to flesh this out a bit; The Friends of the Somerville Public Library is a not-for-profit organization that helps the library and its branches to provide programs, services and materials not covered by the library's normal operating budget. It is 100% staffed by volunteers. The Friends provide funds for the popular Museum Passes program, license fees for movie screenings, co-sponsor Somerville Reads and more, so the Library can offer a variety of children's, young adult, and adult programs. If you don't use the Museum Passes already, get over here and check it out. Fantastic resource.

One more thing... I have been working to create some progamming for The Friends, organizing a series of five talks to be held at the library by arts/design types you will easily recognize from other 10engines posts. Pretty jazzed about this. If this sounds like something that interests follow along at facebook.com/FriendsOfTheSomervillePublicLibrary now for times, dates, tickets; details released soon. If you would like to be involved in this series as a speaker or volunteer feel free to email me directly.

It feels like Friday...

parenting -uss constitution etc

Shame on us for never having visited the Charlestown Naval Yard before now. And the USS Constitution; dubbed "Old Ironsides" due to the 24" hull of white oak and live oak that could withstand various cannonballs. It is still under restoration to take it back to its orginal state, but free guided tours take you rond on the 1/2 hour.

You can also go aboard a small destroyer warship, the USS Cassin Young (DD-793) from the 1940s. All naval green paint and Emeco chairs inside. Plus depth charges, torpedoes and anit-aricraft guns. Kids eat it up. Le John fans in the "war room" - new obsession.



the british film council -border weave

'Border Weave' shows the production of Scottish wool, in stunning Technicolor! We grew up partly in the Borders of Scotland and those roads and countryside are often still as pictured here.

The British Council Film Collection is an archive of over 120 short documentary films made by the British Council during the 1940s designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played. Preserved by the BFI National Film Archive and digitised by means of a generous donation by Google, the films are now yours to view, to download and to play with for the first time.

Really like this addendum "Digitisation isn’t a replacement to archiving [my italics -ed], but a means to provide anyone around the world with unlimited access to films that need great attention and care."

ebay -gimme caps

The above from an ebay seller in Nashville. Dunno how he finds these by the pound but he is rescuing them from landfill. Good stuff.