Hamburg, Essex students enjoy trip to Washington
Students from Hamburg and Essex enjoyed a unique experience on a trip to Washington D.C.
A group of 35 students and 10 adults from Hamburg School and Essex School were part of a 10-day educational experience to the nation’s capital.
Their journey was not just limited to Washington D.C., as the students have also enjoyed other historic sites along the way.
The first part of the trip included stops at Mark Twain s Light House in Hannibal, Mo., and tours of Abraham Lincoln s tomb and house in Springfield, Ill.
After a night of camping and fishing, the group heads to Indianapolis for rock climbing.
Road to research
Local author and Tribune editor, Dana Haynes, visits exotic locations for work on Sirocco
I m thrilled to announce that my new thriller, Sirocco (Blackstone Publishing, $16.99), hit the stands Tuesday, Jan. 19. It s my ninth published novel, and the second starring Michael Finnigan and Katalin Fiero Dahar, following their 2019 debut in St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking.
The editor of the Metro Life section has graciously offered me this space to tout my book.
Before I do, just a quick aside. When I was 20, I wanted to be either a newspaper journalist or a novelist. Today, I m both, making me, by far, the luckiest guy I ve ever met. My work at the Portland Tribune and the Pamplin Media Group has been doubly rewarding this past year, as everyone from the publishers to the ad reps, from circulation to the production crew, came together to provide excellent journalism in the face of a pandemic, a recession, weeks and months of emotional protests about s