My Window on Main Street

by Marilyn Solomon

Newspapers churn out the daily history of the world, the nation, the state and the town. Covering local news is paramount. Everything from births, deaths and social events to government business is grist for the newspaper page. In "My Window on Main Street" Marilyn Solomon gives her account of the people, places, milestones and events - past and present - that have made Nashua the city it is today. For 12 years she had the vantage point of her office at 60 Main Street from which to watch the daily life of the city unfold. Her columns on the back page of the Saturday "Telegraph" recorded images of the town she grew to call home. "My Window on Main Stree" is a sampling of her impressions of New Hampshire's second largest city on the go, with the highs and lows of its growing pains in the 20th Century.

394 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 2003

Reviews

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a collection of articles from the Nashua Telegraph dating from the late 1990s to 2003 about various people, places, and events about Nashua. Some of the articles were fascinating - the Crown Hill Fire of 1930, some were not too interesting. Most of the places discussed no longer exist at all or in the way that they used to. That made me sad, since so much changes in such a relatively short amount of time. Nashua has grown and seems not to be as close-knit as it once was. Ironically, the Nashua Telegraph is an e-newspaper now and doesn't have nearly the influence or circulation that it used to. More pictures would have made this even better, but I enjoyed these stories even though I'm a recent transplant to Nashua.