As a newcomer to Plymouth, I’ve been studying maps of the town as I try and get my bearings. I’ve long been fascinated with maps, and especially geographic oddities. For example, only two counties in the United States have discontiguous parts. Norfolk County, Massachusetts is one. Brookline and Cohasset are both part of Norfolk County, […]
Author Archives: Peter Zheutlin - Independent Correspondent
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A retired lawyer walks into a comedy club…
Gary Levine wants to make you laugh. “I woke up the other morning and Sue was sitting on the side of the bed, staring at me,” he says as he, his wife Susan Htoo, and I sit down in their Pinehills apartment with a pitcher of Cape Codders. “I said, ‘Good morning, what did I […]
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‘I’m getting the lay of the land’
A year ago, living in a charming old house in Dover on an acre of land, with a beautiful swimming pool, and gardens that were nothing short of spectacular, I never imagined that today I’d be living in an apartment in the Pinehills. At 71, I never saw the divorce coming but come it did, […]