You’re invited to submit a listing for this column. It’s easy. Just email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. Priscilla Beach Theatre, a Plymouth institution since 1937, begins its summer season of four […]
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A whale of a tale is coming to the Plimoth Cinema
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. Michael Packard is the region’s last remaining commercial lobster diver. It’s a profession full […]
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Things to do around town this week and beyond
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. Tuesday, May 21 The Plymouth library’s storytime engages babies and their caregivers with 30 […]
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Navy veteran who escorted FDR to be honored on his 100th birthday
The scuttlebutt was true: something big was happening on the USS Baltimore. On July 21, 1944, Seaman First Class William “Willie” F. O’Connell watched with awe as President Franklin President Roosevelt was piped aboard in San Diego harbor. The U.S. Navy’s heavy cruiser escorted him on a secret mission to Hawaii, where he conferred with […]
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How plastic is invading our bodies
You’re invited to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email your information to listings@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. The subject of our obsession with plastics and how their proliferation is affecting the […]
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Make Plymouth’s Hometown Hound contest your pet’s project
How to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. A local competition is giving pet owners an opportunity to wag the dog. The Annual […]
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How the Mayflower II helped mend relations between the US and the UK
On June 8, 1957, the Mayflower II was nearing the end of her transatlantic journey from England to America. Near Bermuda, she encountered a fleet of international warships, which cruised near the full-scale re-creation of the Pilgrim vessel, loudly blasting horns while sailors waved and cheered from the decks. Four American destroyers then approached the […]
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Inspired by TikTok, she ditched the corporate scene to pursue her art
Plymouth resident Nikki Packard, a long-time creative designer, quit the corporate world and reinvented herself as a mural painter. This is part of an occasional series of short “as told to” profiles by Plymouth resident Carl Mastandrea, who describes himself as a “photographer, teacher, and storyteller.” It has been edited for clarity and length. I […]
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Meet the new boss for the group that oversees old houses
How to submit a listing for this column: It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. After a three-month search, the Plymouth Antiquarian Society has named a new executive director. Patrick Browne, […]
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Pilgrim Festival Chorus goes deep with Brahms’s operatic ‘Requiem’
How to submit a listing for this column:It’s easy. Just email Robert Knox at robert@plymouthindependent.org. A good quality photo without type on the image – sent as a jpeg attachment – helps. We’ll accommodate as many listings as possible. The Pilgrim Festival Chorus will present a single work in its spring concert, Johannes Brahms’ “Ein […]