Riding Fat Bikes at the Beach in Provincetown MA
Province Lands Bike Trail in Provincetown Massachusetts is one of the best places to ride a paved bike trail through nature that we’ve ever encountered. We’ve ridden it several times over the years on road bikes, but this time we set out to ride it on fat bikes. This trail is around 8 miles of rolling up and downs with twists and turns. All the flow you could hope for. The Province Lands Park Ranger Office sits at the top of one of the loops with a look out point over the dunes. These trails can get a little crowded with families and other obstacles like sand in blind corners, so you should ride with extreme caution. There are many accidents here every year. We took the fat bikes out on a few openings that looked like rideable trails, but they really aren’t. There are two trailheads that kinda look like they might be rideable but the one at beech forest is more for hiking, and the other at the pond is for horses. With a few other MTB options in the area like Wellfleet ponds, Nickerson State Park, Pine Hills, and of course West Barnstable – which was amazeballs for a beach trail – we’d suggest just sticking to the pavement out on the Province Lands Bike Path. If you need a bike rental – the best shop close to that trail is right next to the coastal acres campground and it’s called Gale Force Bikes. also have some healthy foods to take with you and gear if you forgot anything. Rent a bike for your stay and you won’t have to be bothered with trying to find parking all week. Everything is bikeable.
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Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the We're Here, a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience.
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Dink Dykes: Lesbian Culture at Douglass College
In a gay celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Douglass College, old friends and classmates gather to discuss the remarkable and revolutionary emergence of visible lesbian culture at Douglass and in New Brunswick, NJ during the years 1967-1977 that also saw the rise of second wave Women's Liberation and the watershed riot at Stonewall Inn, which initiated the modern LGBTQIA movements.
The discussion is moderated by Kay Turner '71 and featured Adria Evans '71, Barbara Lee '72, Gail Walker '73, Paula Schorr '74, Joanne Fuccello '75, and Rue Watson '77. Dr. Ed Cohen hosts and introduces the event.
Presented by Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences - Women's and Gender Studies Department
Calling All Cars: The September Killer / Hard to Kill / Noblesse Oblige
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.