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Sue Veal

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Just a regular person trying to have fun and do good. 🎶💙🌳🐈🐕

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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 10h
Good morning, my friend! Now back to our regularly scheduled month! ~Draconid Meteor Shower: early tonight & tomorrow! ~Hunter’s Moon: Oct. 25/26. ~Candy: mine. ~Music: only the Best on the World Classical Network (on free iHeart app/streaming WCRI 95.9, RI, or WSCS 90.9, NH) Join me from 6-10am!🎶
Cool facts about my favorite month: there are 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, a meteor shower, a full moon (Hunter’s Moon), Halloween on a Saturday (won’t happen again until 2037), Clocks fall back on Halloween.I have a bag of sweet jelly pumpkins, and identical-looking sour jelly pumpkins. We like both so sometimes I mix them.
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good morning, my friend! Just adding another photo of what’s known as “holiday creep” to our collection. (If you haven’t heard, it’s when decorations show up in stores months before).🎄 I promise, no “Jingle Bells” today, just great music on WCN (on free iHeart app/streaming WCRI 95.9!) Join me 6-10!
Store display out last week that shows characters from a holiday TV special, the 1964 Rankin-Bass version of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good morning, my friend! Family outing at #TopsfieldFair, “America’s oldest agricultural fair.” You can zip through exhibits in 2 hours, or make it a full day by trying carnival games and rides. No “Farmer in the Dell,” but great musical accompaniment wherever you go today @ WCN/streaming WCRI 95.9!
Welcome sign says “America’s Oldest- Founded 1818.” Although touted as an agricultural fair, (show animals to fruits & vegetables), there is also a Midway with carnival games, rides and foods. In the poultry barn is a temp-controlled incubator. We watched this little baby peck its way out of its shell!Pretty sure I knew him in high school.Heaviest pumpkin, 1st Place, is 2,598 pounds! Nearby sign says the 1984 winning pumpkin was “only” 433 pounds! (I stood there calculating how many potential pies…)
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Election Day is just one month away and our civil rights and liberties are on the ballot. Before Tuesday November 3, make sure you create your plan to vote and tap the link below to learn more about your voting rights here in NH. bit.ly/4qPkyw0
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Know Your Rights: Voting in New Hampshire - ACLU of New Hampshire
Election Day is November 3, 2026. Know your NH voting rights before you head to the polls!
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good morning, my friend! I hope you had a great weekend?! I did, (but more on that tomorrow)! Ready to have the best #Monday? Easy peasy: Just listen to the World #Classical Network on free iHeart app/streaming WCRI 95.9! Join me & my pals #Mozart, #Bach, #Haydn and more from 6 to 10!
Sign says “Today will be the best Monday of the week.”
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Sue Veal @sueveal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Really good information for NH voters here!
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The New Lede @thenewlede.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The EPA’s decision to allow our food to be sprayed with pesticides right before harvest is “outrageous and completely out of line with good science and basic common sense,” Nathan Donley of @biologicaldiversity.org said. www.thenewlede.org/2026/10/peti...
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Petition calls for US actions to lower pesticide residues in food
The US should review policies that allow major food crops to be sprayed directly with herbicides shortly before harvest and should tighten related policies that allow for high levels of residues of th...
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good morning, my friend! Happy #FriYay (finally)! After all the rain/gray skies, I invite you to take our weekly #respite in #mygarden, (which doesn’t care it’s fall!). Just breathe, and take along the best musical accompaniment: the World Classical Network (on free iHeart app/streaming WCRI 95.9)🌸🦋
Butterfly bush only has half of its blooms but there were still butterflies, moths and bees visiting yesterday.Rose of Sharon isn’t done being fancy.Rose of Sharon…to be.Surprise! Rose deciding to start growing on its own in the Concord grape arbor…. (photo yesterday).
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good morning, my friend! It’s the 1st of Oct so “Rabbit Rabbit” to wish Good Luck! Fotos Sylvia & Ernie, who live in my back yard! Thx to @nursenancy62.bsky.social who taught me the tradition! NH Network affiliate WSCS 90.9 is playing our programming just fine (WCRI having technicals). Wish us luck!
Sylvia Rabbit, mother of 16 (this year), needing some alone time. I’m a mom of 1…and yet I totally get it.Ernie Rabbit, yesterday by my driveway, asking me if I had seen Sylvia. I said no. (As a mom, I’ve got you, Sylvia!❤️)
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! Beleaf me- there’s nothing like a walk in #autumn with #leaves dancing around you. And what a releaf: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven & yours truly love the walks, too! (World Classical Network on free iHeart app/streaming WCRI 95.9) Take us all along from 6-10am. Season the day! 🍂🍃
Fall Leaf Identification Guide with the tree names of 14 leaves identified.
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! What’s cooking, gourd looking? Rainy day so I steamed sugar #pumpkins & roasted seeds. 6 future pies in all! 🥧 Didja know pumpkins listen to classical music? Gourd vibes on…vine-yl! 🎶 Tune in to World Classical Network (free iHeart app/streaming WCRI 95.9). Join me 6-10am!🎃
Sugar pumpkin #1 …Close-up of pumpkins steaming.Pumpkins steaming.
Seeds waiting to be cleaned and roasted.
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MECRN @bugladyrn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Monday inspiration…..
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Congregational Library & Archives @congrelib.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎃 Tickets have been added for our Early New England Witchcraft Collections Tour and spots are filling quickly.📅 Friday, October 23, 12-1PM. 🎟️ Free and open to the public Reserve your spot today: www.eventbrite.com/e/early-new-...
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! Happy #FriYay! It’s 9/25, or 9-2-5, just like the movie/hit song titles. Cities across America are calling it #DollyDay or #DollyPartonDay in her honor. Here’s a #rose from #mygarden for today’s #respite break as it reminds me of her wigs! Let’s be extra kind in her memory.🩷
Dolly Parton shown in an office setting for her hit song “9 to 5” from the movie of that title!One of my David Austen roses from this summer. This one looked the most like Dolly Parton’s blond wigs!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
‘Cracking auction, Gromit!’ Original Aardman puppets go under the hammer
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‘Cracking auction, Gromit!’ Original Aardman puppets go under the hammer
Wallace and Gromit stop-motion models and other beloved creations raise money to train new generations of animators
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Beth @geor12.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Utopia #watercolor #watercolour Pen and wash
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Sue Veal @sueveal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The k you, Sen. Hassan. But - “It’s great that they’re trying to douse the inferno with their chilled bottles of spring water and everything, but it would be a whole lot better, for everybody, if they tried a little harder to wrest the gas cans away from the arsonists.”
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Commentary: Maggie Hassan won a bipartisanship award. Please hold your applause. • New Hampshire Bulletin
In ways too numerous to count, the political events of the past two years have been tragic for this country. But because despair isn’t an option, my survival technique is to view much of it as comedy.
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Timothy Weir @tgweir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Blue - You can’t ask for a more evocative blue painting by Marc Chagall than this one. It combines some of his favorite elements, particularly the two lovers’ floating heads against a moon(fish)lit night sky. It is “Le Paysage Bleu” of 1949, a gouache painting at the Von der Heydt Museum, Germany.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Patriots Day Freedom Fest, a conservative festival headlined by Kid Rock, was canceled days before it was set to take place after only 6 VIP tickets were purchased.
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doc joan 🦋 @newyorkwarrier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please pass it on?
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! Happy #autumn 🍁(when every grocery store has these displays in front & apple cider on full display!) Now add the right blend of cozy plus adventurous music from the World Classical Network (free iHeart app/WCRI 95.9 stream)! Join me from 6-10AM and let the new season begin!🍂
Autumn display in front of Roche Brothers grocery store.Autumn display in front of Whole Foods grocery store.Display in front of Wegman’s grocery store.
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Beth @geor12.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fall #watercolor
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bear mama makes herself comfortable: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: The Weather Channel
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New Hampshire Bulletin @newhampshirebulletin.com · 19/09/2026
"These assaults on immigrants, voting rights, and education are not disparate endeavors. They are a unified mechanism to assure that one narrow worldview holds sway and power, indefinitely." Commentary from @danawormald.bsky.social #NHPolitics
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From immigration to voting to education, the pointed politics of the deep freeze • New Hampshire Bulletin
There is nothing accidental or incidental about the freezing out of immigrant populations. In fact, across policy areas the “freezing” of populations is not only a prong but the point.
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Sue Veal @sueveal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
theconversation.com/the-story-of...
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The story of Little Italy’s Feast of San Gennaro is the story of how Italian immigrants became American
Italian immigrants used to be accused of clinging too tightly to the Old World. Today, millions gather in Little Italy to celebrate the food, faith and traditions they brought with them.
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Debbie Criswell (b.1975 USA) Country Cats Autumn. acrylic on canvas. #Caturday
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! I saved this one from several years ago and it still makes me chuckle. Remember that music is a comfort & “colleague!” Elgar’s “Dream Children,” Debussy’s “Prelude to…Faun,” & Mozart’s “Pf Conc. #21” await! (Download free iHeart app/World Classical Network/stream WCRI 95.9)🎶
Meme shows the list of days of the week, but the days have been renamed: Monday, Monday #2, Monday #3, Monday #4, Friday, Saturday, Pre-Monday.
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! Does #Monday give you #TheBlues? I’ve got the cure: tune in to the World Classical Network! Brahms’ “Academic Festival Ov,” Sullivan’s “HMS Pinafore Ov,” & “Mozart Block at 9 o’clock” are spirit lifters! Join me, 6-10AM! (Download WCN on free iHeart app/WCRI 95.9 stream) 🎶
My cell phone took a photo on its own from the inside of my denim jacket. I call this photo “The Blues!”
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! Remembering the #9/11Attacks 25 yrs ago. I was on-air, 7 mos pregnant, as it happened. It made a deep impression as I thought of the world in which my baby would grow. Planted the “Firefighter #Rose” bred in honor of the 1st Responders. #RememberTheSky #respite #mygarden 🌹❤️
#RememberTheSky, a photo & hashtag project created by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.The Firefighter Rose is a hybrid tea created in honor of all the 1st Responders on 9/11. I ordered and planted it in June. It arrives without leaves to retain its moisture in shipping. Look how well it has recovered! Will grow 5-6’ tall.Close-up of rose.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
happy bday, one of my favs, poet Mary Oliver, b.1935, Maple Heights, OH. “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! For #ThrowbackThursday, an old t-shirt with wise advice! And the best way to #relax? Tune in to the great #classical #music on the World Classical Network! Something for everyone! Join me from 6-10am. (On either the free iHeart app/or streaming at WCRI 95.9) 🎶
T-shirt with words that say: “Note to Self: Relax”
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! For Just passing along 2 suggestions for #WednesdayWisdom: the one below, and an invitation to join me 6-10 for Chopin’s “Heroic Polonaise,” Debussy’s “Arabesque #1” & Mozart’s “Piano Son. #13,” @ the World Classical Network (free iHeart app/WCRI 95.9 stream)! Crank it up!📻🎶
Meme says: “The Music Should Be Loud Enough That You Can’t Hear Anybody Complaining.”
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! It’s #InternationalLiteracyDay. My newest puzzle shows 26 classics. I’ve read all but 2: Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon” & Wells’ “Time Machine.” You? Tune in for Debussy’s “Clair de lune” based on a poem! World Classical Network (free iHeart app/WCRI 95.9 stream)📚🎶
Just-completed 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles titled “Literary Classics.” 26 book covers shown including “Moby Dick,” “The Great Gatsby,” and “Call of the Wild.”
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The New Hampshire primary is tomorrow, do you have everything you need to know before you go? Learn more and make sure your voting plan is complete by visiting the link below! www.aclu-nh.org/news/know-your-righ…
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Know Your Rights: Voting in New Hampshire - ACLU of New Hampshire
The New Hampshire primary is Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Know your NH voting rights before you head to the polls!
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! Happy #LaborDay! Whether you’re #relaxing or laboring today, we’ve got the perfect musical accompaniment for you! Join us for Vivaldi, Chopin, and of course, “The Mozart Block at 9 o’clock,” on the World #Classical Network (on free iHeart app/WCRI 95.9 streaming)! 🎶❤️
Meme says: Labor Day = No Work, Except for Your Coffee Maker Which Deserves a Raise!
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bhtnh.bsky.social @bhtnh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Joy Reid is the latest in a long line of speakers - which #BlackNewEnglandConference keynotes have you seen?
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! Happy #FriYay! Time for our weekly #respite in #mygarden, tho it’s wacky all of a sudden. Most of my grapes are still green late in the season, white #RoseofSharon I didn’t plant, the maple leaves don’t know it’s still summer! World Classical Network/stream WCRI 95.9 helps.🎶
Still green Concord grapes. I was making my first batch of jam this time last year!🤷‍♀️This white Rose of Sharon just popped up in the middle of my hedge roses…
No. Just no.
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! Talk about #ThrowbackThursday! Wrote a column in March about appraiser-restorer David Manzi. Went to see his brand new Woburn store yesterday. Top quality made-to-last things! Just like classical 🎶! For the best, World Classical Network (free iHeart app/WCRI 95.9 streaming!)
The office & restoration workshops. 
22 Prospect Street, Woburn. Insurance & personal property appraisals and/or restoration of damaged artworks, furniture, pianos, even ship models!The new store at 3 Green Street, Woburn. 2 floors of furniture, lamps, china, crystal, books, toys, pottery, artworks, cutlery, magazines…
(They just moved in and they already need a bigger place!)The toy room! Too many fine things to describe! Inventory changes daily. Turns out, when people want long-lasting quality, they go “old school…”
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Timothy Weir @tgweir.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
September is my kind of month - National Classical Music Month (U.S.). What better way to celebrate than to attend a recital or a concert by your local symphony orchestra? That coffee on the piano (yikes!) is there to remind you that Sept. 29th is National Coffee Day (U.S.). Mark your calendars.
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! #TripleA says lots of folks are heading out starting today for the long holiday weekend. Staying put or hitting the roads- life can get crazy🤪 so remember #classicalmusic is always here for your escape! Join me 6-10am on World Classical Network (free iHeart app/WCRI 95.9)!🎶❤️
Pillow says “Take it easy…”
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The New Hampshire primary is next Tuesday, September 8, have you made your plan to vote? At the link below, learn where you can find your local polling place, what you need to know before you go, and better under your voting rights in NH. Your vote is your voice, so use it! bit.ly/4qPkyw0
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Know Your Rights: Voting in New Hampshire - ACLU of New Hampshire
The New Hampshire primary is Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Know your NH voting rights before you head to the polls!
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
PS: It’s primary day in Mass.
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Timothy Weir @tgweir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Remembering conductor Seiji Ozawa (1935-2024) on what would have been his 91st birthday. He achieved a record 29-year tenure as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (1973-2002), surpassing Serge Koussevitzky (25 yr.) and Charles Munch (13 yr.). Photo: Yo-Yo Ma and Ozawa (BSO, 1994).
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good morning, my friend! 🐇🐇!! Sharing pics of the 107th annual St. Anthony Feast on Sat in the North End. I’ve gone almost every year since I was born!🎉Tune in this morning for the festive Svendsen’s “Norwegian Artists Carnival” on the World Classical Network (free iHeart app/WCRI 95.9 streaming!)
The streets of Boston’s North End are decorated for the annual St. Anthony Feast, the largest Italian religious festival in New England. The National Geographic calls it “the Feast of all Feasts.” I just call it fun. Close-up of the St. Anthony statue that is paraded through the North End’s streets. It’s covered with jewelry and ribbons on which people pin money as thank-you offerings to the saint for his intercession on their prayer requests. When you make a donation you’re given a thank-you card and button…Treated ourselves to piping hot fried dough balls covered in powdered sugar. Bye-bye diet.
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Goood morning, my friend! How is it the last day of #August? If you want to keep celebrating #summer, join us for dances & Nicolai’s “Merry Wives of Windsor!” If you’re itching for cozy #pumpkinspice, Vivaldi’s “Autumn” is also coming up on the World Classical Network (free iHeart app)/or WCRI 95.9!
Meme says “Wait, what? How is it August already?”Meme has Fairy Godmother waving her wand & turning a pumpkin into a coach for Cinderella. She is saying: “Remember my dear, at the stroke of midnight on August 31st Pumpkin Spice everywhere!”
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 28/08/2026
We are opposed to private developers building driveways and special access into our parks. The ultra wealthy can wait in line and go through the gate just like everyone else. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Good morning, my friend! Happy #FriYay! Today’s weekly #respite isn’t in #mygarden, but the lovely #gardeninthewoods in #Framingham! A friend wanted to go to their plant sale, then we stayed & explored & found joy! Music works like that, too! Try World Classical Network (free iHeart app/WCRI 95.9!)🪴
You can visit Garden in the Woods year round. In addition to acres of native plants to see & learn about, there are specialty programs, children’s programs, plant sales and a sweet gift shop.Sign says: Our Mission: Conserving and promoting New England’s native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes…Paths with sweet surprises everywhere! Ok… now I’m in love with ferns. 
I’m not kidding...I’m ‘fernishing’ my garden with these!
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1DegreeOutside @1degreeoutside.com · 27/08/2026
⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 9 PM for western New England: 1do.us/severestorms 💨 Damaging winds to 70 mph likely 🌨️ Hail to 1.5" 🌪️ A tornado or two possible Storms strengthen & move east this afternoon/evening. Stay weather-aware. #1DegreeOutside #severestorms
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Severe Thunderstorm Watch Issued for Western New England & NY: Damaging Winds, Large Hail & Isolated Tornadoes Possible - 1 Degree Outside
Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect until 9 PM for CT, MA and VT, with damaging winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes possible.
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bhtnh.bsky.social @bhtnh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Many great conversations came out of Saturday's #TravelingTeaTalk in Canaan, NH - see the full recording on YouTube now.
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do you know your voting rights? The New Hampshire primary is less than two weeks away on Tuesday, September 8. Tap the link in our bio to learn more and make your plan to vote today. www.aclu-nh.org/news/know-yo...
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Know Your Rights: Voting in New Hampshire - ACLU of New Hampshire
The New Hampshire primary is Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Know your NH voting rights before you head to the polls!
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