Tom Paine
The Towns We Love Are Real Characters
For some reason fall is the nostalgia season. Fall foliage has much to do with it. So this week I post the following, written in 2000, in...
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Tom Paine
Oct 4, 20236 min read
Rooting for Native American Roots
For decades I have longed to discover that I was not purely of European ethnicity, but also Native American, From childhood the evidence...
Tom Paine
Sep 26, 202314 min read
Big Blue is Our Logo
It is arguably the most historic site in the Commonwealth. Its original name was Massachuset. Yet its historical significance is...
Tom Paine
Sep 19, 202311 min read
High Places
Height matters. We don’t have to be in Steamboat Springs at eight thousand feet, either suffering from oxygen deprivation or enjoying a...
Tom Paine
Sep 11, 202338 min read
The Cradle that Rocks the World
After 9-11, 2001, I began to collect a list of local innovations of broad significance. Here is what I wrote back then: We have all come...
Tom Paine
Sep 5, 20235 min read
The Family Mosaic
In August 1977 my wife and I were headed home after a stimulating year in Taiwan, where she had taught college students philosophy on a...
Tom Paine
Aug 30, 20236 min read
Tribal Boundaries
Life is organized by setting boundaries, most of them somewhat arbitrary.
Tom Paine
Aug 3, 20235 min read
Tracing back to China
Contributed to PEM / 06 NOV 2015 / By Tom Paine The CCTV (China Central Television) film crew working with award-winning director Gu Jun...
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