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HISTORY OF REEK SUNDAY, Part 3: LOCATION
In County Mayo in Ireland, Cruach Phadraig — as it is known in Irish — is also called “The Reek.” It stands at 764 meters or 2510 feet elevation. It [...]
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HISTORY OF REEK SUNDAY, part 2: PILGRIMAGE
Pilgrims, nature lovers, archeologists, historians and hill climbers come from all over the world to climb the mountain. This pilgrimage has been going on for centuries, and an older one for millennia. More on that later.
The current one has been going on in an active way since 1905 with [...]
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HISTORY OF REEK SUNDAY
This week I’m in Boston. But last year at this time I was on the west coast of Ireland, where they say, “West o’ here, da next parish over, dat’s Boston.”
This Sunday, the last Sunday in July every year, marks Reek Sunday, or Garland Sunday in Ireland. At this time between 25,000 [...]
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Movie Review: Hairspray
Kenetic! That word alone captures the energy of this movie. This is easily the most enjoyable film of the summer (so far) that starts the viewer with a grin and the ends with applause. It is tempting to say this is the best movie musical since Grease. Sure, other musicals have been [...]
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Perhaps the saddest book I’ve ever read, the first “new” J.R.R. Tolkien book in 30 years is “…long and sad in the telling, as are all tales of Middle Earth.” While it is beautiful in its composition and deep in its scope, it contains in it at all times a sense of “doom” that seems [...]
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070707
July 7, 2007.
Even more — seven AM, seven minutes and seven seconds: 07:07:07 07/07/07. That won’t happen again, at least for 12 more hours. It would make James Bond envious.
Of course, we recently had an event like this at three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the sixth of May of this year, [...]
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