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So far Jesse DeGroodt has created 16 blog entries.

Golf Course Design

Here we are, trusty weapon in hand, standing in the tee box of the 12th hole at Quaking Catalpas Country Club, gazing off in some vague direction of where we imagine our destination might be lurking around the corner behind trees so tall they’ve likely been around since the Martin Van Buren administration, a patch […]

By |2024-09-30T11:44:02-04:00September 30th, 2024|Sports|

Door number one, or…?

In 1925, the world was all shiny and new again. The “War to End All Wars” had receded from the forefront of minds, and life could hardly be better for many, as the Roaring Twenties were in full swing. The Jazz Age, baby!

But now we’re looking 2025 in the eye and the burning question of […]

By |2024-09-03T11:38:42-04:00September 3rd, 2024|Main Street News, Op-Ed|

Say Whut?

Let’s get this out of the way before anyone gets the misguided idea this is some sort of scholarly piece: I am most decidedly not a grammarian, or much of any other kind of marian. If anything, I’m a whatinhellisgoingonherearian who may possess at least a passing familiarity with this readin’ ‘n’ writin’ thing, and […]

By |2024-08-01T12:17:03-04:00August 1st, 2024|Main Street News, Op-Ed|

Arts in Western Mass

Thinking about where I might go and what I might trot out to see in the realm of live performances given my druthers this summer, it was time to poke around and make a few decisions. In the event anyone’s asking, after a bit of whittlin’ here and some slicing and dicing there, I hereby […]

By |2024-06-03T09:05:10-04:00May 31st, 2024|Backstage, Main Street News, The Arts|

Your Future Home

Well, huh. Nothing like the Law of Unintended Consequences to gouge a hole in the boat. The initial plan here was to proffer a rash of innovations that would coalesce into what any reasonably lucid individual would consider a Dream Home, when, honestly, this should really be billed as the quest for the Home of […]

By |2024-05-02T09:35:50-04:00May 1st, 2024|Main Street News, Op-Ed|

SAY WHAAAT?

We here at the Main Street headquarters had a good chuckle with this one. We hope you will too. Jesse and yours truly (this magazine’s editor) had an entertaining conversation about conspiracy theories some time ago that then resulted in Jesse taking pen to paper, err, fingers to keyboard rather. There are so many theories […]

By |2024-03-27T19:01:18-04:00March 27th, 2024|Op-Ed|

Food Waste

Ever paid any attention to how much and how food goes to waste in your household over the course of a week? No matter whether it’s a family of one or of 13, it’s going to happen. The question is, to what extent? And what are the impacts on your household finances and the global […]

By |2024-03-28T09:23:26-04:00March 27th, 2024|Main Street News, Our Environment|

Animal Smarts

My name is Lily and I am a dog. Yes, it’s my real name, but I do my best to keep up with whatever Grampy calls me, be that Willie, Shorty, Beans, or Stinkweed (I unequivocally do not stink, unlike the other doggy here, who smells like a dead goat half the time). Sometimes, he […]

By |2024-03-04T13:19:21-05:00March 4th, 2024|Featured Article|

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? (OR, HOW WERE YOU MISLED TODAY?)

On May 29, 1780, subsequent to the fall of Charleston, SC, to the British less than three weeks earlier, Abraham Buford’s Patriot forces suffered an overwhelming defeat at the hand of British commander Banastre Tarleton’s men at Waxhaws, SC. When they attempted to surrender, a number of Buford’s troops were attacked and killed by Tarleton’s […]

By |2024-01-31T14:39:11-05:00January 31st, 2024|Featured Article|
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