Springfield 1915 Two views of the city's river front including a race scene The views of recreations spots for the city. I love the roll...

For those of you who missed my guest spot on Bax and O'Brien this morning, here are the audio links: part one and part two . I deeply a...

Hey did you know that Springfield is the location of the event that spurred the infant nation into considering a Constitution? That's r...

I've been several times to the Mark Twain house and always found it fascinating and, as a writer, inspirational. I can't imagine a ...

First, a sign of the End Times...go here for a better view and now read: "As a child my imagination was stirred by the great animated f...

The following I wrote as part of my column this week in the newspapers I edit, but I'd like to add a little more. Garbage isn't the ...

I've posted my review/feature on the mostly animated documentary "Chicago 10" here at Animation Review.

Sigh...this thing was clearly bullsheeeet. When we lived on a small farm in Granby, MA, we raised hogs for several year. The pig pen was at...

Now this is going to be interesting... Beginning Tuesday, August 19th, the Department of Public Works will begin reclaiming city-issued tras...

My friend Elizabeth burst my bubble...actually she didn't, but the guy at the on-line Hoax Museum is being all Mark Martin-y about the...

Road trip! Who is coming with me! From the other Mark M....thanks! BIGFOOT BODY FOUND DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a ...

I'm happy to report that I've received an advance copy of my new book "Postcard History Series: Springfield" from Arcadia ...

My interview with Emmy Award-winning (and Academy Award-nominated ) animator Michel Sporn is posted on Animation Review. Go read it!

This week has been a meat grinder at work, so therefore my lack of posting....I'm making up for it this week. I'm sure at least some...

I can't remember where I found this puffy plastic sticker, but the cultural collision it represented continues to fry my mind! Remember ...

Fellow blogger Tom Devine has been writing on and off about news coverage in The Republican (our daily paper here and part of the Newhouse ...

"What the hell was I thinking?" I get all sort of stuff at the papers I edit that frequently I can't use just because of space...

I was searching for some animation graphics the other day and found these instead and instantly became nostalgic for UMass, which I attended...

I really want to like him. I want him to succeed. My concern, though, is that Deval Patrick may be a one-term governor at best and that he w...

I've not posted DVD reviews in a while. I'm trying to juggle the demands of writing local stuff for Pioneer Valley Central, while s...