Book: “Homecoming”
“Homecoming” Kate Morton (542 pages, fiction, 2023) Jess Turner-Bridges is a journalist who has lived in London for the past twenty years. We meet her in 2018 when she gets a call from Australia letting her know that Nora, the grandmother who raised her in Sydney, is in the hospital after a fall. Jess flies home immediately, thinking that maybe she can use this trip to rekindle her writing career as well as care for Nora. When she...
This week in Concord history
May 11, 2003: State geologist David Wunsch offers an early theory as to why the Old Man of the Mountain may have tumbled from Cannon Mountain, the Monitor reports. A piece of the Old Man’s granite-hewn Adam’s apple that anchored the formation may have come loose, causing the chin to dislodge and the rest of the rock face to just fall away from the cliff. May 11, 2001: Dartmouth College announces it is permanently stripping the...
