August 18, 2023 By Glenn Mangurian Dear Hingham Resident, I’m working on an essay for the Hingham Anchor on “What Makes Hingham Hingham?” I’m soliciting opinions via email, the Anchor newsletter as well as random conversations I will have, in person, around town. To contribute, just click on this link. Your response can be as short as …
August 7, 2023 By Glenn Mangurian “There are eight million stories in the naked city.” – Concluding line from the 1960’s television series, “Naked City” Is it time to share your life story with you children? My wife and I are frequent viewers of the PBS television program, “Finding Your Roots” hosted by Harvard professor, Dr. Henry …
July 24, 2023 By Glenn Mangurian I was sad to learn of the death of the great, Tony Bennett last week. My wife and I saw him perform twice at the South Shore Music Circus and once at the Wang Center. He had incredible interpretive skills, masterful phrasing and a range of genres from swing and jazz …
July 17, 2023 By Dave Sargent, Allerton House After three years of a bloody and frustrating war, the korean war ended in 1953 when China, North Korea, and South Korea agreed to an armistice. Today proves there has been no “end” to that war and no victory. U.S. troops are stationed there today and there are occasional acts of …
July 17, 2023 by Glenn Mangurian … and counting. You are probably asking who is thinking about Thanksgiving in July. Summer is short enough and there are still barbeques, beach days and blueberry pies to eat. If you ask people what their most loved holiday is, the common response is Thanksgiving. The important values of Thanksgiving are …
July 7, 2023 By Michael Weymouth I have several friends and family members who are born again Christians. In the many times they have tried to convince me I will burn in the fires of hell if I don’t give it up for Jesus, I remind them that in fact I am a great Jesus …
July 5, 2023 Submitted by. James E. Claypoole The Supreme Court has placed affirmative action as the primary means of student selection at our schools of higher learning directly in the wastebasket. Most people are sympathetic to the injustices forced upon blacks and other minorities over past centuries. One of the remedies which society contrived as a corrective …
June 29, 2023 Immediate past president of the Hingham Cemetery Board, John Davenport, presented Kateyln Erickson, the winner of the cemetery’s 2023 scholarship award, at the Ames Chapel in Hingham. Katelyn won for her essay on family genealogy, which involved considerable research. She heads to Ohio State University in the fall. The Hingham Cemetery Board …
June 26, 2023 By Michael Weymouth Recently a charter school principal in Tallahassee, Florida was forced to resign after several parents complained that a sixth-grade Renaissance art history lesson was pornographic. The issue, it seems, was a photo of Michelangelo’s sculpture of David, which showed his genitals, a not uncommon feature in Renaissance art, which unashamedly glorified the human body. …
June 8, 2023 By Glenn Mangurian You probably have been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) recently and the dangers it poses to the world. While the concept of AI has been around for decades (remember HAL from the 1968 science fiction movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), in the last six months the AI technology has …
