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By TERRENCE MCCARTHY

 I’m proud to be able to boast I am a product of the mill town in which I grew up. The man I am now was made in Easthampton. Not unlike what was manufactured in the red brick-walled factories in which my mother and father toiled back in the 1950s and...

By TERRENCE MCCARTHY

 As my wife, Donna, and I were hauling assorted items out of our house and garage in North Carolina the other day, I couldn’t help but try to recollect if anyone I knew growing up in Easthampton ever did what we were doing: preparing for a yard sale.I...

By TERRENCE MCCARTHY

A book was published recently, the gist of which can be summed up by a line uttered by a character in the Paul Newman film “Cool Hand Luke.” To wit: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”The book is titled “Supercommunicators: How to Unlock...

By TERRENCE MCCARTHY

I just bought Tracy Kidder’s new book “Rough Sleepers.” The title refers to people.who are experiencing homelessness in the state’s capital city, Boston. Kidder’s focus is on Boston physician Jim O’Connell’s mission to help that city’s legions of...

By STEVE PFARRER

Who says you can’t merge a Ph.D. and rock and roll?    As Florence Dore explains, she spent a long time traveling on seemingly disparate tracks. On one hand she was the professor who’d devoted years to studying American literature and teaching...