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Granite State of Mind, #149: Nike Employee Store, Greenland
A brief homage today to another New Hampshire place that no longer exists. For many years, my brother worked for Cole-Haan and then Bauer...

Joe Pace
Jun 24, 2019
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #368: Nick Miller
Like everyone else, we watched The New Girl because Zooey Deschanel is quirky and funny and cute, the most improbably, awkwardly sexy...

Joe Pace
Jun 22, 2019
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #367: Eleven
I've been hearing for months and years that I need to watch Stranger Things. One of my (many) flaws is that the more I'm told to do...

Joe Pace
Jun 21, 2019
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Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #100: A Shopkeeper's Millennium
For the hundredth entry in this series, I'm sharing one of the most important books I've ever read. Johnson's volume is brief - under 150...

Joe Pace
Jun 20, 2019
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Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #99: Star Trek Memories
I can't speak rationally about my love for William Shatner. More specifically, Shatner's depiction of the swaggering, libidinous,...

Joe Pace
Jun 16, 2019
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Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #98: Exeter High School Yearbook, 1993
The deeper the well of memory, the trickier it becomes to separate history from myth. As the years pass by, favorite stories become...

Joe Pace
Jun 10, 2019
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Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #97: Plagues and Peoples
Disease has been with humanity for as long as we have roamed the Earth, and McNeill skillfully retells our collective narrative through...

Joe Pace
Jun 9, 2019
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Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #96: The Big Scrum, How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
I love history, and sports, and Teddy Roosevelt, so there's no universe in which I'd pass by a book covering all three, even one penned...

Joe Pace
Jun 2, 2019
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Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #95: Blue Latitudes, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
I was saddened this morning to hear of the passing of Tony Horwitz, the experiential travelogue author most probably recognize from his...

Joe Pace
May 28, 2019
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Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #94: Shortest Way Home
When it comes to the Presidency, I've always been partial to candidates who have had some executive experience in government. Some of our...

Joe Pace
May 23, 2019
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Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #93: Orr, My Story
When I was born in 1975, the Mount Rushmore of Boston Sports was Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Cy Young, and Bobby Orr. Orr was about to...

Joe Pace
May 16, 2019
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Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #92: American Aurora
When an autocratic President seeks to silence his critics by declaring their attacks "fake news" and journalism is cloaked in strident...

Joe Pace
May 15, 2019
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