Joe O'Shea

Cape Cod Life Magazine • 29th September 2022

Seafaring Saviours

Under the watchful eye of the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Sea Tow and TowBoatU.S. provide maritime-support services for the region.

Cape Cod Life Magazine • 27th September 2022

Foggy Memories

In the Cape Cod Baseball League’s famous ‘Fog Game,’ pitcher Andrew Miller tossed a modern masterpiece. Thanks to the league’s oral-storytelling tradition, the legend lives on.

AAA Horizons • 20th October 2022

Salem Ghost Hunter Mollie Stewart Leaves Guests Spellbound

Former journalist Mollie Stewart thoroughly researches, investigates, and documents each haunted site featured on her Spellbound Tours, which include ghost, vampire and witch-themed sightseeing tours in Salem.

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AAA Horizons • 5th October 2022

Enjoying a Tango by Moonlight, Over the Charles

Once a month – from June to October – the Tango Society of Boston hosts Tango by Moonlight, a monthly celebration of dance that takes place on the Weeks Footbridge, only a brief backstroke away from the Harvard Boathouse.

Cape Cod Life Magazine • 11th April 2017

When Nantucketers Rode the Rails

A century ago, islanders could travel from the harbor to Siasconset via the dearly departed Nantucket Railroad, a privately funded enterprise that operated—in fits and starts, but mostly fits—from 1881-1918. Although it ran in the red for most of its checkered history, the Nantucket Railroad had a rich history of derailments, de-coupled cars, engine failure, shifting tracks, crashes, and other calamities.

AAA Horizons • 6th October 2022

Ghosts & Gravestones Tour Offers Spooky Alternative to the Freedom Trail

For those interested in more than what the Freedom Trail has to offer, Historic Tours of America has just the "fright-seeing" tour: Ghosts & Gravestones, a two-hour examination of Boston’s more infamous moments and spectral residents.

AAA Horizons • 28th September 2022

Forest Hills Cemetery: Stories Behind the Stones

Founded in 1848, 17 years after Cambridge’s Mt. Auburn Cemetery, the nondenominational Forest Hills Cemetery has long had a reputation as a democratic burial ground. According to tour guide Al Maze, its meandering pathways are a metaphor for death.

AAA Horizons • 28th September 2022

Forest Hills Cemetery: Boston’s ‘Open-Air Museum’

The one artist whose influence is felt most throughout Forest Hills’ meticulously manicured grounds is Daniel Chester French, who is best known as sculptor of the seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Minute Man statue at North Bridge, Concord, Mass., and Harvard University’s John Harvard.

Patriots Football Weekly • 2nd March 2019

'94 Offense: Just a Prelude to '95

Patriots Coach Bill Parcells realizes he has to create more options to accommodate third-year gunslinger Drew Bledsoe's burgeoning talents, so the former grind-it-out guru has adopted a radically different offensive philosophy than he employed during his final years with the Giants. Plus, former 49er Coach Bill Walsh offers his opinion on Bledsoe.

Patriots Football Weekly • 10th July 2018

Titletown Restored

The Super Bowl is no exception to the grand American tradition of excess. In fact, the National Football League’s championship game typifies it. So it should come as no surprise that the NFL team that scored most excessively all season long, the Green Bay Packers, continued that timeworn tradition of American gluttony with a 35-21 Super Bowl XXXI victory over the AFC Champion New England Patriots in the Louisiana Superdome.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 12th July 2018

PRESSing Concerns During Super Bowl Week

For the media, the trouble with Super Bowl Week is lies in digging up a meaty story.

Currents (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Employee Newsletter) • 23rd May 2020

Boston Fed's Academic Advisory Council Provides ‘Second Opinion’

Surrounded by some of the world's most prestigious universities, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston relies on the region's top academic economists to provide different perspectives. The Boston Fed's Academic Advisory Council meets three times a year, and ensures that "group-think" doesn't impact the First District's policy recommendations.

Boston Herald • 4th May 2018

In Central Florida, Magic Happens Outside Disney's Walls

Some of Florida's most enjoyable rides, ironically, are located just outside the contrived confines of Orlando's Walt Disney World and Universal Studios.

Boston Herald • 19th May 2018

A Taste of 'Real Florida' at Crescent J Ranch

The Crescent J, which co-exists with Forever Florida's 3,400-acre nature conservancy at Bull Creek, offers a taste of pre-Disney life in Central Florida.

New England Sport Magazine • 17th April 2018

Parcells is One Bill Worth Paying

Soon after hiring Bill Parcells, the New England Patriots discovered that he's one Bill worth paying.

BJ's Wholesale Club Journal • 5th August 2018

Bill Russell Rules . . . Both On and Off the Court

In his latest book, 'Russell Rules,' Celtics great shares insights on leadership and winning.

Boston Baseball Magazine: 1999 All-Star Game Program • 1st May 2018

"Game of the Century" Gave Birth to Major League Baseball All-Star Game

The Midsummer Classic traces its roots to the Second City.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 8th August 2022

Wild One in Baltimore Birdland

Special teams aces Larry Whigham and Tedy Bruschi teamed up to deliver the winning TD in the Patriots' 46-38 victory over the Ravens at Baltimore's resurrected Memorial Stadium.

Breezes (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Employee Newsletter) • 8th September 2020

Fed Golfers Take Swings, Trade Laughs, at Fall Tournament

While Mark Twain once argued that “golf is a good walk, spoiled,” the famous author never attended a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston golf tournament, where fun is the first order of the day. The bank’s most recent tournament, which took place on a picture-perfect, mid-September day at the South Shore Country Club in Hingham was more like a "good walk, spoiled” -- only by laughs, good-natured ribbing, whiffs, slices, hooks and, in the end, some pretty good golf.

New England Patriots Football Weekly • 10th September 2019

A Game of Inches and . . . Feet

Strolling across the Bryant College campus in baggy shorts, a polo shirt and a baseball cap, Matt Bahr could almost pass for someone half his age. Father Time has been kind to the Patriots placekicker, whose impish face belies his 39 years, but nowhere is Father Time's blessing more evident than in Bahr's right leg, which has earned him a more-than-respectable living the past 16 years.