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The F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery & the Fig Newton
Copyright The Kennedy Family 2008 Editors Note: As we share our homes with you, so we share our histories. “In 1840 my great, great grandfather, Artemus Kennedy established a cracker baking company in Cambridgeport, MA. The first oven was set up in a small building on what is now Massachusetts Avenue. There employees rolled each…
Read MoreIn Memory of Francis Albert Dynan
by: Frances Maloney It is written of Mary of Magdala, that, after the disciples had returned to their homes, Mary lingered like a humming bird before the silent face of the tomb, weeping. “And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head…
Read MoreAn Intensely Religious Week
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2014 Intensely Religious – how do we turn that into – gloriously Spiritual! I hope it is not the intensely religious who have brought about so much bigotry in the world and the gloriously Spiritual who have given us so much freedom! Maybe my values are a bit screwed. It is…
Read MoreA Wonderful Concord Christmas Story
copyright Bettina Network, inc. for Barbara Marden 2011 A few days before Christmas I was giving a friend’s out of town visitor a tour of the house. My friends six year old son David was with us and did he get excited when I showed him a secret place to store treasures. It was in…
Read MoreThanksgiving at a Bettina Bed & Breakfast Home
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I would like to write a blog about it. Hope you find this up to your standards, kiddo! We decided to do the “Bettina” thing and invite the guests staying with us to join us for Thanksgiving Dinner. It happens all over the Bettina…
Read MoreSo Much To Do – So Little Time
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 A Bettina Host Family’s Reflections “After reading your blog on Rev. Gomes and looking at my own life – this may be a morbid post, but it is where I am at the moment and I think it needs to be said. It is great being a host family in…
Read MoreBreakfast Apples
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2010 One of the Bettina Host families has finally sent us her recipe for the apples which are a trademark of her breakfasts. Every morning, you can count on geting these apples, no matter what else she serves. We loved them from first taste. They are not stewed apples, which break…
Read MoreMosquitos and Vitamin B1
copyright 2010 The Bettina Network, inc. We talked about many remedies for mosquitoes at breakfast this morning. The one we all decided to try is Vitamin B1. This conversation took over breakfast because my beautiful garden can’t be enjoyed without enduring mosquito bites and everyone was scratching from spending time outside. One of our bed…
Read MoreA New House in the Bettina Network
copyright 2010 The Bettina Network, inc. In CONCORD, MA. – This home is for all of you who love American history and want to explore some of its beginnings and important early events. Not to mention those who love music, outdoor activities, small festivals with meaning, historical sites, really old homes and especially those looking…
Read MoreA New Bettina House in Washington D. C.
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2009 Each new addition to the Bettina Network is more exciting than the last. This house, which will now welcome some of Bettina’s bed and breakfast guests is in Takoma Park, MD. Just 1 block from the D. C. line; a short walk to the metro, restaurants, easy access to the…
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