Lexington fifers and drummers take Tea Party Ships and Museum honors

The headline is wrong, as there were no pipers present (well, none playing pipes anyway) but the sentiment is right.

Lexington pipers take Tea Party honors | Boston Herald

Congratulations to the William Diamond Juniors!

From homeschool to teachers

Hmmm...The Point at Fitchburg State - From homeschool to teachers

Students Sarah Comeau and Elisabeth Beverage are ending their time at Fitchburg State to become educators. Both are hard working teachers who are ready to hit the ground running in their fields, but unlike some of their fellow education majors, they have been asked the same question over and over again; “Why did a homeschooler want to become a teacher?”

Drummers' Call Trip - Colonial Williamsburgh 2014

Pictures from a trip south...

Boston Late Night

From the May issue of Boston magazine, Boston Late Night. With Aerosmith's Joe Perry and others, including Ben Beverage...

The backyard

Love the October view...

A portion of a graduation ceremony...

Associates Degree in Arabic Recipients, DLI, 7/18/2013

A couple more pictures...

A few pictures from Charlie Company, 229th MI Battalion's Facebook Page...

Cobras continue to lead the battalion in the number of Associate of Arts Degrees awarded at graduation. Each of these Soldiers earned an additional 15 college credits from a variety of educational courses, in addition to their language class requirements.

The guidon bearer graduates after a distinguished period of leading from the front of formation!

1SG addresses her graduates for the last time.

A proud moment for 4th Platoon!

Graduation Day

Our soldier graduated today, one of ~35 newly DLI-certified Arabic speakers, and one of seven awarded an Associates Degree in Arabic. 

And now he's on a plane bound for home...

Soldier update

DLPT passed. Graduation Thursday (7/18). Shipping Thursday. Home Friday.

William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

6/29/2013 - William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps at Disney World's Magic Kingdom

Birthday bagpipes

The birthday boy...

William Diamond Jrs - Standpiece - 2013 Lexington Muster

Saturday's featured entertainment:

 William Diamond Jrs - Standpiece - 2013 Lexington Muster

Service Medley

The William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps perform a medley of tunes of the United States Armed Forces at their Winter Concert, Cary Hall, Lexington, MA.

Veterans Day

The view from the rear of the William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps, Veterans Day weekend.


Downtown Malden, 11/11/2012

Approaching the Battle Green in Lexington, 11/12/2012

Franchise exercised

Down to the polling place, this morning, waiting in line for the door to answer.  Eighteen year old daughter voting for the first time.  (So is the nineteen year old son, who is in the service and stationed out of state, so voted absentee two weeks ago.)  My wife fed the first ballots into the machine.

The first three votes cast in my precinct went to Mitt Romney for President, and for Scott Brown for the US Senate. 

I doubt that either will win that precinct, but there it is...

A picture I like

From the opening ceremonies of the 300th anniversary celebration of the town of Lexington, MA.

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Lexington: get the party started

A video segment from the WCVB TV show Chronicle, featuring the William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps (at least part of it...)

Packs of teens, roaming Swiss train stations after midnight...

What kind of trouble can a group of American teenagers get into after midnight in a Swiss train station?

 Here's some video from the train station in Liestal...



Jay and John and Lisa and Ben and Gil and Eddie and Shayna play Morelli's Lesson...

Our favorite soldier...

Looking sharp...

Fife and Drum

Saturday afternoon, the Lexington muster was held at the National Park in Lexington. Here's the host corps performing its standpiece...

William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps - Standpiece, 2012 Lexington Muster