#wilbraham

[trailforks]

Wagon Dr Climb Trail

Climbing starts right away, making this a challenging start to a ride.

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[mccarthyforschoolcommittee]

Gender Dysphoria in HWRSD Schools

Gender Dysphoria

Ten years ago the term gender dysphoria or transgender were terms most of us never heard, but today there has been an explosion of children identifying as a different gender to the biological sex they were born with.

Transgender rights in Massachusetts are protected by An Act Relative to Gender Identity (Chapter 199 of the Acts of 2011) and it severely restricts the ability of the school committee to make policy that protects the rights of the majority of normal students. 

Students that have gender dysphoria are entitled to use restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, play on sports teams, or they can insist on using a unisex or special restroom. They can insist that pronouns they want be used and suggest disciplinary action taken against students that don’t.

They even offer guidance that says, “School personnel should speak with the student first before discussing a student's gender nonconformity or transgender status with the student's parent or guardian” This is a policy recommendation, generally for students 14 and older.

Our schools have to protect all of our students without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin or sexual orientation not just because of the law, but out of common decency. On the other hand we need to use common sense policies to protect the rights of all of students and their parents.

[wilbrahamortho]

About The Margolis Orthodontics

Looking for quality orthodontic treatment? Visit Margolis Orthodontics for pediatric and adult services. Our practice serves Springfield, Ludlow, East Longmeadow, Wilbraham, Hampden County, Monson and Palmer, MA.

[20th-century-railroading]

A Pair of New FA's Lead a Westbound Through N. Wilbraham

A pair of new NYC FA's lead a westbound freight through N. Wilbraham, MA

Photographed by John Wallace, April, 1950.

[wildwren]

James Wilbraham as Mr. William Blifil // Tom Jones (2023)

for @aadmelioraa

[higherentity]

[malaindiancookingclass]

Indian Cooking Classes in Wilbraham MA

Mala's Indian Cooking Classes is the best Indian Cooking Classes in Wilbraham and Massachusetts. We offer the best date night cooking class in Springfield Ma.

[solace-saphylos]

I'm trying to use voice to text to dictate my fanfiction, and it's not like I expect them to get the fantasy names of Baldur's Gate right by any means, but they just interpreted Wulbren as Wilbraham- what in the Broseph Strider is this???

[usacounselingcredit]

Boston Massachusetts Florist: Anthony Stark Obituary (1936 - 2023) - Wilbraham, MA - The Republican

Boston Massachusetts Florist

Anthony Stark Obituary (1936 - 2023) - Wilbraham, MA - The Republican

by noreply@blogger.com (Loni Cardon) on Tuesday 07 March 2023 03:34 AM UTC-05

ANTHONY STARK OBITUARY. Anthony C. Stark 1936 - 2023 Wilbraham We are sad to announce the passing of Anthony Charles Stark, known to many as "Pop" ... Providence Providence RI Rhode Island March 06, 2023 at 09:55PM

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[swforester]

The graves for the victims of the Three Mile Pond drowning disaster of 1799. All of the graves say "drowned in a pond three miles from this place," so I wonder if that's how the pond was named. It is said that they drained the pond to find the bodies. I could only find the graves for 6 of the 7 victims. This pond is more like a lake.

Adams Cemetery

Wilbraham MA 8/19/23

[hailingsweetpotatoes]

"Uncle Edward will be worse than ever," she said. "He will want me to marry some horrible rich man, and if I want to marry a poor one, he'll say he's after the money. And anyway, I don't want to marry anybody." "Then don't," said Wimsey. "Be a wealthy spinster." "And get like Aunt Wilbraham? Not me!" "Of course not. Be a nice wealthy spinster." "Are there any?" "Well, there's me. I mean, I'm a nice wealthy bachelor. Fairly nice, anyway."

This is, apparently, the extreme to which people in early 20th-century England believed that marriage was the only fit state for a woman. Hilary knows very well that her aunt was a widow, and so does Peter, but he doesn't even bother to point that out in his argument. At least Harriet, who first assumes (randomly) that Mrs. Weldon is a spinster, corrects herself when she sees the wedding ring -- but even she seems to be surprised that "not even marriage" saves one from becoming an unhappy old woman. Given the way marriage worked at the time, you'd think these characters would have ample opportunity to meet unhappy married or widowed women; surely there must have been almost as many of those as there were unhappy spinsters at the time.

It seems like they really had all drunk the matrimonial kool-aid, to the point that even women who expressed a desire not to marry assumed all other unhappy women were spinsters. I know, I know, Sayers wrote an entire book grappling with this idea, which shows to what degree it was A Thing...but this specific example still boggles me.

[mccarthyforschoolcommittee]

Vote Early

The election is on Saturday, May 18, 2024. I know at this time of year you may be busy, have other plans, or be out of town so why not vote early by mail? Please use the link below to register to get an early mail-in ballot sent to you so you won't have to worry about getting to the polls on election day. 

This link will also first check to verify that you are eligible to vote in the election and then allow you to order a mail in ballot if you are eligible to vote.

When you fill out your ballot please vote for D. John McCarthy for School Committee, Mary McCarthy for planing board, and Lawrence G. LaBarbera for assessor.

The application must reach your local election office by 5 p.m. on the fifth business day before Election Day. (Monday, May 13, 2024) but you should plan well in advance to make certain you get you ballot in time to vote before Election Day.

[finishinglinepress]

FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: The Dog with the Flute in its Mouth by Emily Anna King 锡萍芳

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The Dog with the Flute in its Mouth negotiates heritage and the new life it takes on in the space of absence. The collection follows the journey of the narrator, the child and the Dog with the Flute in its Mouth as they search for the sound of a name and a way to return home. It represents a deep love that both creates and bears witness.

Emily Anna King (锡萍芳) is a recent alum of University College Cork’s Creative Writing graduate program in Ireland. She currently teaches creative writing and English at Wilbraham and Monson Academy in Western Massachusetts. Her most recent publications are found in Tír na nÓg, Massachusetts Best Emerging Poets 2019 (Z Publishing), Pamplemousse, Lily Poetry Review, Paragon Press, and Otherwise Engaged Journal.

While her work often explores the Chinese American adoptee experience, she is also passionate about the intersectionality between The Dog with the Flute in its Mouth negotiates heritage and the new life it takes on in the space of absence. The collection follows the journey of the narrator, the child and the Dog with the Flute in its Mouth as they search for the sound of a name and a way to return home. It represents a deep love that both creates and bears witness.

language and music.

PRAISE FOR The Dog with the Flute in its Mouth by Emily Anna King 锡萍芳

The Dog with the Flute in its Mouth spans continents and is both grounded and threaded together with the influences of cultures from east to west. Musical metaphors help the reader experience King’s search for a truth that is desperate to be felt, yet by its very nature will never be afforded an opportunity to truly be known. In doing so, we are unwittingly guided toward a beautiful and thoughtful study of humanity that gives us pause to think of our own stories and how they have influenced every aspect of our lives. Describing the indescribably, giving shape and form to that which can never be constrained by such things, culminates in a passionate vision to be cradled in a love so profound that it becomes a reality as real and as true as anything in this life or any other. Such is the experience of sitting with The Dog with the Flute in its Mouth, an enormous, cathartic and life affirming piece that touches the heart and the mind and questions the validity of building a reality of one’s own when the reality of others is forever shrouded in a quiet darkness determined to forever be obscured.

–Howard Odentz is the author of several young adult and emerging adult novels, novellas and short stories that explore the desperation, horror, and sometimes humor, of those trapped in frightening situations while sitting on the cusp of an adulthood that is just out of reach.

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[extinctionblues]

Wilbraham MA 2016

[westdallasgang]

Waco Jailbreak continuation: What happened after Clyde's jailbreak, and Bonnie's missed message from Clyde.

On the day Bonnie read of Clyde's successful jailbreak in the paper, Clyde secretly slipped into West Dallas that same evening (with the 2 other escapees in tow) and rounded up 2 men who were willing to collect Bonnie in Waco. The hired men returned 2 days later empty-handed. It was said by Bonnie's cousin Mary that they did arrive at the house but she and Bonnie pretended to not be home, fearing the men were cops. Clyde didn't tell Bonnie beforehand that he was sending them there to pick her up so, he had to flee the state without her. Once arriving in Illinois, he sent out a telegram for her to join him when things cooled off. Except, things never did cool off. On March 18, Clyde, William, and Emery, were arrested in Ohio. Within a few days they were back in Texas.

Story goes that William Turner and Emory Abernathy were passengers in a stolen car being driven by Clyde. Their car, taken from Missouri, had a set of stolen Indiana license plates on it. After a night of burglary in Middletown, Ohio, Clyde thinks he's heading west towards Indiana. Without realizing he has taken a wrong turn, he steers the car down the steep winding road. At the bottom of the hill the road flattens out and makes a right turn. It was too late when the "Waco Three" realized they have just returned to the scene of their last burglary committed 4 hours ago and they are looking at 2 Middletown Police officers standing outside the B&O Railroad Depot. The officers recognize the license plate and the chase is on.

One officer said Clyde went across to Poasttown Road and then up Wilbraham Road which is a blind street. Seeing he was hemmed in, the bandit ran the car over the lawn between 2 houses where he jumped out and ran to the Middletown Hydraulic Canal, throwing his smuggled Waco gun in the water. The officers caught up with him as he ran down the canal where he surrendered. Officers eventually captured William Turner in an alley near Auburn Street and Crescent Boulevard after firing several shots. Emery was captured an hour later in the east end near the Big Four railroad crossing where he was trying to bum a ride out of town.

When McClennan Waco County authorities arrived to take custody of the Waco Three, they asked Middletown PD for the smuggled gun. They wanted it for evidence to investigate where it came from and how the prisoners got it. They were informed that the gun was unrecoverable, lying at the bottom of the swift-moving and very murky waters of the Middletown Hydraulic Canal. Clyde admitted this to Middletown authorities and later to the Waco Times-Herald. He was quoted as saying this was the gun used in the Waco breakout. Over the decades, rumors of this gun as well as alleged photos of it have risen, but research indicates this gun is still at the bottom of the canal. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to recover the famous gun Bonnie smuggled to Clyde. The gun has been down there for nearly 94 years, but metallurgic experts informed that owing to canal conditions and the silty bottom, the odds are good that it rests in a layer where there is no oxygen. These conditions will slow rusting significantly. Pictured above is the Middletown Canal where the gun is believed to still be.

[wildwren]

Solly McLeod and James Wilbraham as Tom Jones and William Blifil

Tom Jones (2023) // A History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (1749)