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For lifelong music fan Matt Smith, of Marshfield, his latest job made perfect sense.  On February 2, Smith, who is already the managing director of the fabled Club Passim in Harvard Square, hosted his first edition of WMVY radio’s "The Local Music Café." The show airs at 9 p.m. Tuesdays on the Martha’s Vineyard based station (88.7 FM, also carried on 96.5 FM in Newport) and is re-broadcast at 8 p.m. Sundays. The shows are also available on MVYRadio.org, where all previous shows are also archived. “I didn’t do anything specific for my debut, figuring I’d just ease into it,” sa...

John Arnold: Poignant time in SMA church to ponder new life, and death John Arnold paid a visit to the SMA Church in Cork city and lit a few candles in thanksgiving for the arrival of a new life into his family SHINING LIGHT: The cross on St Joseph’s SMA Church, Wilton, beside a full eclipse of the Moon in 2015 John Arnold DO ye know the anti-war song The Green Fields Of France, or as it’s usually called Willie Mc Bride? Written by Eric Bogle, it’s a classic of modern times with a timeless message proclaiming the futility of war. It outlines the horror of warfare and the killing and dy...

now, there's another reason why this period of the first world war, i think, has drawn me and so many other people to study it and to learn about it which was that 1914 marked, um, an era that came to an end, an era of emperors and 'em presses. there were no emperors after the war ended. this is kaiser wilhelm on the left and his six sons march anything if a parade. and somehow to me the the era is symbolized by the hats that they wore. i mean, just look at those hats. um, here is the kaiser's wife, the emreroess and her daughter. i can't claim that after 1914 nobody wore hats like t...