Mad About Town
Carolyn Marsh is communications director for the Picker Institute in Camden.
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Cries in the night and during the day
By Carolyn Marsh - Jun 26I was almost run over the other day, by a van. It was one of the most terrifying things I have ever experienced, and I still don’t know how I got ...
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Dumping on Charm City
By Carolyn Marsh - May 22The other day a little bird in a stand of trees told me that more than half the property in Camden is not on the tax rolls, either because it is ...
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The DMV and other sore points
By Carolyn Marsh - Apr 25I spent a day at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Rockland last week. Sorry—I meant to say I spent an afternoon. I don’t know what good deeds ...
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Customer dis-service
By Carolyn Marsh - Mar 21To those of you who asked, extensive research on the Web indicates that recycled toilet tissue (that seems to be the nicest way to say it) is fine ...
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Energy and other staffs of life
By Carolyn Marsh - Jan 11Like many other people, I have been thinking a lot about energy. Not the kind that sends you leaping out of bed in the morning, with glad cries, ...
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Poles apart, and other observations
By Carolyn Marsh - Jun 12I went to a school board meeting the other night. I haven’t been to one for so long (and as the editor of The Camden Herald I went to them all) ...
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Fireworks in the night, again
By Carolyn Marsh - May 08The most recent entry in the “Am I missing something here?” department: This description of the tenure of Robert Nardelli, fired by Home Depot and ...
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Handicapping light bulbs
By Carolyn Marsh - Apr 12The latest from the “Why can’t they get anything right?” department is the news that the millions of people in this country who have good intention...
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Turning green
By Carolyn Marsh - Mar 06I never dreamed that Mr. Whipple would reappear in my life. By the way, a sidelight on the power of the Web, and television before it: Mr. Whipple ...
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Mad about town: evergreens
By Carolyn Marsh - Dec 20I ran into Dave Jackson the other day. Dave has always seemed to me to be the embodiment of the genius loci of the Camden Public Library grounds, ...