Honest I Just Took The Photo! @BillBrettBoston At Book Ends In Winchester. Get A Copy Of "Boston: Irish"

James Patterson gets the first standing (line) ovation of the last day of #bea15. What he do? Everything and just show up! #jimmybooks

From @variety on #Spotlight, the movie opens next week.

Purple cactus at Lyman Estates annual plant sale. Meant to get perennials to spruce up the yard and then I saw this.

Love this. How can you not?

"Not Jefferson, Wilson, Churchill, not even FDR, but Herbert, by God, Hoover. …To me, that’s a real man." – Ted Williams on his political views, as quoted in Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s biography of the baseball great, "The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams", to be released on Tuesday, Dec. 3 by LittleBrown. 

(PHOTO: Ted Williams and Ted Kennedy. Ted Williams Family Enterprises Ltd, Inc.)

Can't wait for this book to come out. benbradleejr-blog:

Exclusive Excerpt from “The Kid” by Ben Bradlee, Jr.

The Kid appeared in the small room on the night of July 5th, 2002. Video cameras rolled, and the flashbulbs popped – just as if he were making another star turn of the sort he had made so many times throughout his celebrated life.

About 30 people had anxiously awaited the arrival of Ted Williams – the great Teddy Ballgame himself: American icon, last of the .400 hitters, war hero, world class fisherman, enfant terrible with the perfectionist persona. Yet, this was no press conference, no card show, no charity event or meet-and-greet where Ted would wave and say a few words to his faithful.

For he was dead, after all. Quite dead.

Helen Drinan is one of the many women in Boston: Inspirational Women by Bill Brett and Kerry Brett with, blush, me, from Boston's Three Bean Press

At first I was going to snark about the Buffalo NY Walk of Fame that started in downtown and then I saw some of the names. #MichaelBennett #ChristineBaranski #ARGurney

Wonderful collection of Mallard brand pencils. They had a wonderful sense of humor as well as purpose. #pencils #vintage #USmade 

Typology of Mallard brand pencils. Fred’s pencil collection.

Charles Street Supply #hardware in #beaconhill. The cat apparently runs the joint and the dog lives nearby. #dogsofbeaconhill #catsofbeaconhill #dogsofinstagram #catsofinstagram #summer #boston