There’s a certain infallible harbinger of Spring in New England that isn’t a groundhog or a robin. It’s a truck. Specifically, it’s a huge, half-a-block-long semi-trailer truck. It’s Truck Day in New England and it’s marked by baseball fans in six states (and some in up-state New York). It attracts hundreds of sick-of-winter Red Sox…
First, in Boston on Tuesday, the town—in fact, all of New England—will celebrate the Patriots amazing come-from-way-behind win over Atlanta in Sunday’s Super Bowl. Second, on Monday—and frankly of far greater significance to me personally—there was the annual, unfailing harbinger of Spring—Truck Day! On this day every year, in preparation for the next…
I’ve been in Hawaii for more than 53 years, but I still remember what winter is like for you folks back east. You get up and go to work in the dark, the days are grey, it’s dark again by the time you’re driving home. Sometimes it’s cold; the rest of the time it’s “freeze-ass”…
No one who was not raised as a pup in New England truly understands the obsession the rest of us have for the Boston Red Sox. We grew up with the team. We lay in bed on warm summer nights, listening to games being played under the lights of Fenway Park. We kept score on…