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Photographer Robt Lussier takes on Methuen Memorial Music Hall

Over the next few weeks local photographer Robert Lussier will be photographing the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.

Prints of these images will be previewed on his website and sold to support the fundraising efforts of the Music Hall’s Trustees.

Robert Lussier Photography
LussierPhoto.com

Most of the images featured on his site are available for purchase through Lussier.Smugmug.com

Methuen Photo Essay from Local Blogger

Methuen Blogger:   The Importance of Being Rob took his camera around downtown Methuen Yesterday and has posted about two dozen on his blog. They are well worth checking out.

More birding along the Merrimack

Birding blogger Tom Pirro has written up the results of a day spent out on the Merrimack.

Last Saturday (1/9) he took a trip along the river from Lowell to Lawrence and spotted an assortment of gulls, hawks and ducks.

READ BIRDING NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS…AND BEYOND

Eagle Tribune State of the Union Live Web Chat 1/27

The Eagle Tribune’s J. J. Huggins will be hosing a live web chat on eagletribune.com during Obama’s State of the Union address tonight. The panelists will include Methuen Mayor William Manzi, Methuen citizen watchdog Jack Burke and Northern Essex Community College Professor Richard Padova. The experts will discuss the president’s speech in real time and for about 20 minutes afterward. Please check it out and post comments and/or questions.

Eagle Tribune.com Live Web Chat

Title: The State of the Union
Date: Wednesday January 27, 2010
Time: 8:45PM EST

Methuen Community Helper group

The Methuen Massachusetts Community Helper group is a site for members to swap items of interest, sell or buy items of value (under $5,000), post yard sales, give information about community events, and chat about local issues.

See: Rules for Posting and Using Methuen Community Helper Best practices for getting your message to the group quickly and effectively

For an example of a larger active group see Haverhill Community Helper.

If you have something to give away, please use the local Freecycle network
Methuen Freecycle Group
Haverhill Freecycle Group

Fabulous fire photos online at NRIFirePhotos

There are some awesome professional photos for you to see over at NRIFirephotos

InternationalFirePhotographersAssociation > NRIFirePhotos > 2009 Incidents > Working Fire Methuen MA 132 Swan St November 28, 2009

Methuen Freecycle

Methuen Freecycle is part of the Freecycle ™ Network, where one person’s trash is another’s treasure! Our goal is to reduce waste by connecting people who are throwing away unwanted items with others seeking the same items (and have a little fun in the process). No item is too big or too small; but since this is a Freecycle list, ALL items must be 100% (that’s right, you got it) free.

Freecycle lies somewhere between the garage sale and the dump, and is much cooler than either. It’s an innovative concept that harnesses the power of the Internet to do what the Internet does best — eliminate the middleman and empower the individual.

Unlike traditional charitable organizations that accept people’s castoffs and sell them for low prices in unappealing shops (or end up taking them to the dump anyway), Freecycle allows for personal contact between donor and recipient — each gets exactly what they want, and nobody is considered a ‘charity case.’ (Indeed, many Freecycle members both give and receive items on a regular basis.)

It’s a perfect consumer-friendly circle: no overhead, no intermediaries, no money changing hands, no waste and no catch, and everyone’s happy. The Methuen, MA Freecycle Network serves the greater Methuen, MA area; people living in neighboring towns are also welcome. Keep in mind the transportation.

Homepage:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MethuenMAFreecycle/

For more information:
MethuenMAFreecycle-owner@yahoogroups.com

Dan Kennedy from Media Nation “reinventing journalism”

Media Nation By Dan Kennedy • The press, politics, technology, culture and other passions

Dan Kennedy from Media Nation blog, will be speaking at a conference of the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System which is being held today at Nevins Memorial Library. His topic is reinventing journalism in the post-newspaper age. He has posted the slideshow I’ll be using on Media Nation. Tomorrow he will be at a news media conference being held at the Eagle-Tribune in North Andover – the panel discussion will be on how blogging on newspaper Web sites has affected the news cycle.

Below is the slide show from todays NML conference:

Fiona Broome’s Tenney Gatehouse podcasts

From Paranormal Investigator Fiona Broome’s website Hollow Hill:

While the October 10th (2009) fundraiser at Tenney Gate House was a tremendous success, some people asked questions afterward.  Here are my replies, and a new recording about Tenney Gate House.

• Some people thought that I’d organized the event.  I didn’t.  The event was managed by the Essex County Ghost Project, and supported by the Pelham Paranormal Researchers.  I was merely one of the speakers, and — like everyone involved — I appeared at the fundraiser, free of charge.

I’m delighted that the event raised so much money for the Methuen Historical Society, to help as they continue to restore and maintain Tenney Gate House and nearby Grey Court Castle ruins.

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I’ve summarized what I said, in two recordings.  You can listen to them here (as MP3s). One is a brief talk about the Tenney site. The other is a 16-minute podcast about ghost hunting without hi-tech tools.

MP3 recording: Tenney Gate House – history & ghosts

MP3 recording: Ghost hunting without high-tech equipment (That’s my regular podcast for 6 Nov 09.)

(continue reading at Hollow Hill and to hear podcasts)

Essex National Heritage Commission Discovers Moneyed Methuen

Photos of Essex National Heritage Commission’s Explorer “Discover Moneyed Methuen” tour of Tenney Gatehouse and Grey court available at Essex National Heritage Commission’s facebook photo album. Check them out.

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