My Civil War Walking Tour for Historic New England

Hello everyone.  I have been meaning to put up a link to the new tour that will be led by yours truly, so here is the link to the first one, which will be on September 22nd.  That day is the 150th anniversary of the issuing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, so it is a pretty appropriate day, I think.    If you have the time, come on out and learn some history with me.

civil war walking tour
Come geek out with me and celebrate American History!

-Geoff

Some good old fashioned Phone Phreaking

Those of you who call our home number (not the numbers on our resume and not one I will post here) may notice something different about our voice mail.  We’ve changed the message to make it a deterrent to auto-dialers and telemarketers.

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I need to clean off my camera more often

I was working on updating our For Sale page last night and I realized that I had photos on my camera from when Geoff’s parents, sister, brother-in-law, and the kids were in town back in July.  Whoops.

So, without further ado, here they are.

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This just breaks my heart, for several reasons

I hate to see historical markers or monuments vandalized.  It’s bad enough that my own ancestor’s monument was vandalized in recent years.   I mentioned the other day that someone had vandalized the Shaw monument on Beacon Street.  It happened while I was working literally down the street.  Well, I had a chance to see the damage for myself.

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