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July 24, 2023 By Glenn Mangurian I was sad to learn of the death of the great, Tony Bennett last week. My wife and I saw him perform twice at the South Shore Music Circus and once at the Wang Center. He had incredible interpretive skills, masterful phrasing and a range of genres from swing and jazz …
July 17, 2023 By Dave Sargent, Allerton House After three years of a bloody and frustrating war, the korean war ended in 1953 when China, North Korea, and South Korea agreed to an armistice. Today proves there has been no “end” to that war and no victory. U.S. troops are stationed there today and there are occasional acts of …
July 17, 2023 by Glenn Mangurian … and counting. You are probably asking who is thinking about Thanksgiving in July. Summer is short enough and there are still barbeques, beach days and blueberry pies to eat. If you ask people what their most loved holiday is, the common response is Thanksgiving. The important values of Thanksgiving are …
July 7, 2023 By Michael Weymouth I have several friends and family members who are born again Christians. In the many times they have tried to convince me I will burn in the fires of hell if I don’t give it up for Jesus, I remind them that in fact I am a great Jesus …
July 5, 2023 Submitted by. James E. Claypoole The Supreme Court has placed affirmative action as the primary means of student selection at our schools of higher learning directly in the wastebasket. Most people are sympathetic to the injustices forced upon blacks and other minorities over past centuries. One of the remedies which society contrived as a corrective …
June 29, 2023 Immediate past president of the Hingham Cemetery Board, John Davenport, presented Kateyln Erickson, the winner of the cemetery’s 2023 scholarship award, at the Ames Chapel in Hingham. Katelyn won for her essay on family genealogy, which involved considerable research. She heads to Ohio State University in the fall. The Hingham Cemetery Board …
June 26, 2023 By Michael Weymouth Recently a charter school principal in Tallahassee, Florida was forced to resign after several parents complained that a sixth-grade Renaissance art history lesson was pornographic. The issue, it seems, was a photo of Michelangelo’s sculpture of David, which showed his genitals, a not uncommon feature in Renaissance art, which unashamedly glorified the human body. …
June 8, 2023 By Glenn Mangurian You probably have been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) recently and the dangers it poses to the world. While the concept of AI has been around for decades (remember HAL from the 1968 science fiction movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), in the last six months the AI technology has …
June 2, 2023 – Editorial/Opinion/Reflection by Joshua Ross I was going back and forth whether or not to write this. There’s a good chance I will be disowned after it’s published. But this may be more therapy for me than for my graduating senior or his classmates. I realized at the Senior Academic Awards earlier …
May 31, 2023 By Michael Weymouth Recently, The Texas legislature mandated that Texas public schools display the Ten Commandants in classrooms, an act that is in direct conflict with the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment to the US Constitution, a.k.a, the separation of church and state. The Ten Commandments, the first of which is, …