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 baseball bill


we didnt open this agency for the money


but the chicks we opened it for liked money


the clouds blurring the horizon vied together with fennel for the perfect flavor in the bageled soft musing evenings









wahconah was a native mahican maiden for whom wahconah falls in nearby dalton mass was named




no-one was sure where it begun or where it had grown first but the answer was wastreling through 


 cobalt




wahconah falls state park hessian treasure valley grandure schist cotton old  wool cash as words like salads settle into new obvious



belanger film due out fall 2018


" But where the game originated continues to be a moving target. It was long thought to be invented in 1839 in Cooperstown, N.Y., before Hoboken came to be known as baseball’s birthplace. In 2001, a librarian discovered newspaper references that suggested the game was played in New York in 1823. Then a document was uncovered in 2004 that showed baseball was played in 1791 in Pittsfield, Mass.


Who knows what town is waiting in the on-deck circle? " - george gustines ny times june 15, 2008


jane austen's 1797 northanger abbey mentions baseball


 in laughing places the orange ovals bring joy we sift through the ache of cannons 




bulfinch church 27 east st pittsfield mass




pittsfield is also home of lexan and elizabeth banks who grew up in a divided family - one parent yankee fan one bosox fan




tastes stand so close to tomorrow and weave us a lemon wedge tapestry of paint and scented sounds





serendipity the first intercollegiate baseball game was played in pittsfield or intelligent design solar love kind?






umpire c r taft was a hotel manager in williamstown or post master and...













first intercollegiate baseball game played near the newspaper office sally field's character had first job at in absence of malice ?




1:41


lifting breezes open the book a smile cinnamon and deft winds




elm knoll, also known as the gold house or longfellow house east st pittsfield mass worked the fall scenery like fine ochre, amber and umber borne elegance in tuning




standing elm knoll leafing through denizen laughter and ici ice 





pittsfield high school sat on land of the old elm knoll house longfellow risided during his honeymoon




elm knoll was donated to the city by the plunkett family who had owned the berkshire cotton mill, which would eventually merge and become berkshire hathaway


in a real story people dont turn into pumpkins at midnite - though as hunter s thompson said you can turn you back on a person but not on a drug - no in a  real story mark belanger was an acadian learning baseball and french 100 yards from the place baseball was first banned  and where the poet of 'evangeline' lived loved researched and left


evangeline  van buren acadian village paul cyr photography




in a real story the berkshires would be the backdrop and ethical partying nathaniel hawthorne, longfellow and herman melville accomplished with the true new england gusto the trancendentalist literary elite were famed in the 1800 s would be the motivation for such yarns as the tanglewood tales the piazza tales and the arsenal at springfield





in a real story the  van buren maine genealogical society s fb page would ban us  for being  brits & yelling at the locals as we attempted to aid the acadian mr belanger in his fortuitous search to find the links between mark's dad who had worked at g e  and his acadian ancestors and relatives but alas the pages are lost to us !







here it is written both longfellow and hawthorne heard the tale of evangeline at a dinner on april 5th in 1840 in cambridge from a reverend conolly who had heard it from a french canadian parishoner 


longfellow published evangeline in 1847  two years after it was begun " in earnest " on  november 28th, 1845 just 2 1/2 weeks after he reports beginning the old clock on the stairs on november 12, 1845 about a clock at elm knoll in pittsfield, mass located where pittsfield high school now stands observed during his honeymoon stay in elm knoll in 1843 ( also called  gold house ) on east street in pittsfield


acadian mark belanger grew up on the site where evangeline was probably at least partially written ?










portland maine photography ' longfellow '


longfellow s poem inspired by catherine williams' 'the neutral french or the  exiles of nova scotia' published in 1841 ?










robin williams' pittsfield summer home was off williams street ?








 a seminar given by our art and mathematics teacher on math history at arrowhead in 1986


longfellow, hawthorne and melville had all been boarders at the inn next door to the inn that would become melville's famous " arrowhead " estate ?





.edmire boudreau beleanger









 in 2012 3 van buren maine girls joined boys baseball team so school could field a team








today may 20th home run ! ( opposing team )














ulysses franklin grant was born in pittsfield, mass in 1865, moving to williamstown in 1861 before he  played in the integrated major league independent league for 6 years before black people were black listed from major league baseball




he was inducted into the baseball hall of fame













louis socksalexis was the inspiration for the cleveland indians team name and  played his freshman year at st mary s college in van buren which was where the high school is situated today


socks was signed to mlb in williamstown ?


"It was while playing with the Holy Cross team at Williamstown, two years, that John M Ward, told a League manager to sign me. Burkett, who coached the Holy Cross team, finally got Tebeau to let me have a trial.”


must have meant worcester







robert sterling clark, who built the french impressionist featuring clark art institute in williamstown,  was the brother of stephen clark, the founder of the baseball hall of fame  in cooperstown, ny but the two had a falling out in 1923








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