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October 31, 2007

Bellringer pipes up; Courthouse song; More sports-announcing beefs

Back from Amherst -- great trip -- then we segued right into Trick-or-Treat night.

I'm handing off to my commenters while I regroup and get some sleep: Three topics, all from comments that arrived during my absence:

Name that bellringer: After the carillon at Boston's Arlington St. Church was included in the Take Me Out to the Ballgame videos, Jeff Quinlan popped in to identify himself as the bellringer:

That was me playing the Chime at Arlington Street Church. We added "Sweet Caroline" to our repertoire this year, next year I suppose we'll play "Dirty Water" as well...

Here's some background on the instrument, with a photo:

The Bells

The Arlington Street Church steeple bells were a gift from Deacon Jonathan Phillips when the church was built. (It was completed in 1861.) They were cast by Henry N. Hooper & Co. of Boston.

During the 1920s and 1930s the bells were rung from a small electric console in the choir loft. The bells were restored in 1960, and from that time they have been rung by hand.

Lyrical blog: Halle Akala's new Rhode Island Justice blog has just one post, a parody of Hotel California called Hotel Dorrance Plaza, the address of the J. Joseph Garrahy Courthouse.

Halle also points to Women's Bioethics Blog, which is more than interesting.

Calling Howard Cosell: When my old blogfriend Liz Donovan commented on my complaints about some of the current sports announcers (How should sports announcers cover games?), I suggested we try to codify how we'd like them to call the games. But I unleased a torrent of more Sports complaints.

This one should be interesting when the Pats meet the Colts in Indianapolis Sunday:

1. Rooting for one team. It's obvious when you do. Or even more obvious when you don't like a team. Remember their fans are listening too.

And there are more...

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