Celebrate Local 201 at the Lynn Museum This Weekend

Local 201 has strong roots in Boston and the North Shore. They're hosting a 90th Anniversary celebration at the Lynn Museum.

I'd like to thank Nick Becker for taking the time to reach out to ROCK 92.9 with information about the event.  Nick is an Organizer for IUE-CWA Local 201 in Lynn, MA, which represents workers at the General Electric River Works plant, among others in the North Shore/Boston region. Since he's the organizer and expert, I'm sharing what he sent along below. Take a look.

Local 201, along with the Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts, UMass Boston, and the Local 201 Retirees Association, is hosting a 90th Anniversary celebration and digitization event at the Lynn Museum on Saturday, October 14 from 10am - 3pm. We are asking retirees and community members with connections to GE and Local 201 to bring in photos, items, and souvenirs to the event on the 14th where they can be digitized and added to an online archive of Local 201 and Lynn community history. 

Here's a bit more on what they're looking for:

We ask you to bring 1-3 photographs, artifacts, and/or pieces of you or your family’s history in relation to your/their time as a 201-union member. We will have professional archivists on hand to digitize your items with scanners and cameras to help us preserve and celebrate the history and work of our members. Your priceless pictures and artifacts will be returned to you once they are photographed, scanned, and documented at the event. The archive we build that day, along with our oral history interviews, will be later published and available online, hosted by UMass, for members, scholars, and future generations to access, study, and celebrate for ages to come.

The public is welcome to come out and show their support, wearing a union t-shirt, and to check out the history exhibit. More details are on the Lynn Museum website.

I visited the best Massachusetts apple orchard this year. And I'll likely never get to pick apples there again.

Aside from swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, my all-time favorite New England activity is apple picking. Strolling idly between rows of apple trees, picking and eating Macs and Baldwins and Empires on a sunny autumn day...that's my happy place. My kids roll their eyes and chuckle each October as we make our way to the local orchards. I'm like the stereotypical kid in a candy store.

Over the years, I've visited orchards all over the commonwealth. Hell, I've written songs about apple picking. My three faves are actually all within miles of each other. I love Bolton Spring Farm because it's massive and there are lots of hills and areas to explore and pick. Shelburne Farm is fab, too, with tons of varieties and a stocked apple shop. But Carver Hill Orchard is my favorite.

Carver Hill is smaller than its neighbors, which I like. I took my youngest there recently for the first time in a few years and was excited to see so many people there. When we got to the front of the line to purchase our half-peck bag for picking, the clerk informed me that, due to the insane weather conditions earlier in the year, the orchard was only picking two varieties.

Then she slid me a slip of paper and blew my mind.

Carver Hill had another orchard. A secret orchard. Just miles up the road, not open to the public, with a half-dozen varieties to choose from. Because of the extenuating circumstances, they were opening the orchard for picking, but only for this season. A once-in-a-lifetime experience. I was beside myself with autumnal glee. My kiddo was rolling eyes and chuckling.

This is public knowledge, by the way. Carver Hill is spreading the word on their Facebook page. So pay them a visit this season and support a local orchard that got dealt a blow by Mother Nature. Like me, you'll get to brag for years to come that you got to pick apples in a secret orchard that was only open to the public for one season. And that's a pretty cool thing.

https://rock929rocks.com/listicle/let-adam-12-and-hardy-take-you-apple-picking-in-massachusetts/