Mark Stoneman

Independent Historian / Freelance Editor and Translator

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  • I quit the old bird site last December, and I’ve been a happy Mastodon user instead ever since. Nonetheless, I’ve recently begun dalliances with Threads and Bluesky. I’m not looking for greener pastures, but I’m curious about what’s on offer now, and I want to find some of the people…

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  • Driving north on Rt. 16, I can still be surprised by the appearance of the White Mountains from a few hilltops between Wakefield and Ossipee. For a moment, today, I was even treated to Mt. Chocorua and Mt. Washington as the dominant figures in a stunning pattern of silhouettes that…

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  • It’s a beautiful day over here in Down East Maine, where my mother is undergoing a two-part procedure while I wait outside. The picture here is of the waiting area wing of the surgery center on Maine Med’s Scarborough campus.

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    More Time in Maine
  • It’s almost as if the Washington Post was trolling a certain someone when it referred to a “message on the platform formerly known as Twitter.” Or is this the best the paper can do now that the iconic bird has been replaced with xit, has been xed out, or however…

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  • In the past, I rarely watched YouTube, but the bird site’s corruption has seen me on YouTube much more often, as I search for content about Ukraine. Recently I found a good Ukrainian-made series about how Ukrainians in various kinds of media have adapted to Russia’s full-scale invasion. There are…

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  • Two steps forward and one step backward for email subscriptions. My image captions do not show up in the emails that MailPoet generates, and apparently this is a known issue. On top of that, some servers reject emails with a lot of images, which my last post had. So maybe…

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  • My last post was of snow and now August is almost over? Yikes! After commuting thousands of miles between DC and New Hampshire since my father’s passing, I’ve spent the summer in New Hampshire. The marathon driving sessions wear on me, so I’ve been avoiding them. The driving was because…

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    Sign of Life
  • Photograph of snow-covered trees with the moon behind them in Center Conway, NH, on the evening of January 6, 2023.

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    Snowy Trees