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When it comes to insurance, consumers typically focus on the monthly premiums they pay, but oftentimes many of us will neglect to read our policies until we really need them. It’s natural that we don’t want to consider the unpleasant things in life, like illness or accidents, until they occur.
I keep getting job ads, asking if I’d like to help train AI writers in other countries. Usually in languages that I have never studied. Exotic places — well, to be fair, anything outside of New England is exotic to me, because I have not traveled in so long.
Anyone remotely familiar with the local political goings on in Nashua in the past five to ten years knows that the city of Nashua has been dealing with a great deal of litigation and FOIA requests. Most of this litigation, which has infected the local body politic, is coming from a small circle of disgruntled individuals.
I have never seen “SIX” live – I could not get tickets when it was in Boston – so I was delighted to discover that Peacock Players was going to be doing SIX: Teen Edition. I was a little nervous, too, because the songs are big and require both singing chops and a big presence.
I should not have worried.
By 1872, Nashua had seen explosive growth for 50 years! Due to the increasing rail traffic, vagrants who “rode the rails” came to Nashua causing petty crime to soar. So much so that not only was the “House of Correction” in Nashua used (this would later be the Nashua Country Club) but miscreants were also sent to the Manchester Jail and the County House of Correction in Wilton.
This morning I learned that coffee was rationed during World War II. I wish I had known that before my mother died, so I could have asked her how she coped. But then I think, would she have had anything to say?
I have never seen as many rabbits in all the time I have lived in Nashua as I have in the past two years. I mostly see them early in the morning and at dusk, which is normal for crepuscular animals. I watch them hop around our wildly overgrown yard and think “they’re so cute.” And they are.
A growing textile industry brought more people, more attendant businesses, and a new set of social ills that Nashua Police had to contend with. Before the days of television and the internet, people, especially working people, needed a release from the grinding hours of running a textile machine in a hot factory. Some found solace at the bottom of a bottle.
I am a person who seeks to understand difference. When someone disagrees with me, and they want to talk about it, I am usually happy to engage. I once had a long email exchange with someone who read a column I had written about values. In the column I said something like, “If I have a choice of places to eat, and I know that one of the places treats its workers far better than the others, that’s where I am going to eat.” He wrote and asked why. He asked whether it would make my food taste better.
Thanks to the burgeoning business at the mills, by 1850, the city of Nashua had seen about 25 years of rapid growth. More people, more businesses, and more reason to have an adequate fire department.