i've been hassled by cops about the noise of my muscle cars and had a hell of a time convincing them the exhaust was in fact oem. the morons are accustom to civics with tail pipes the size of #2 pencils. the reason modern honda cars have tachs is so you can tell the engine is running.
so, if ya own an old bike where replacement exhaust is either not available or too expensive, you are at the mercy of a cop on a power trip. lots of those around. but, i would like to see those easy rider/dentists taken down a notch. those harleys are louder than any big block i owned!
parking small cc machines on the side walk i see little problem. they're not much bigger than bicycles and they could instead make an ordinance about size of minimum sidewalk width in relationship to parking permission.
thank god coup deville patrick is a one termer! whatta punk. at least mitt romney used a crown vic for personal transportation. btw: nh is what mass. could be, sorry.
this state kicks @ss and is filled with history.
1621 The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in Plymouth.
1629 The first tannery in the U.S. began operations in Lynn.
1634 Boston Common became the first public park in America.
1635 The first American public secondary school, Boston Latin Grammar School, was founded in Boston.
1636 Harvard, the first American university, was founded in Newtowne (now Cambridge).
1638 The first American printing press was set up in Cambridge by Stephen Daye.
1639 The first free American public school, the Mather school, was founded in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston. Also, the first post office in America was Richard Fairbanks’ tavern in Boston.
1650 The first American ironworks were established in Saugus.
1653 The first American public library was founded in Boston.
1686 Oxford became the first non-Puritan town.
1704 The first regularly issued American newspaper, The Boston News-Letter, was published in Boston.
1716 The first American lighthouse was built in Boston Harbor.
1775 The first battle of the Revolution was fought in Lexington and Concord, and the first ship of the U.S. Navy, the schooner “Hannah”, was commissioned in Beverly.
1780 First State Constitution.
1789 The first American novel, William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy, was published in Worcester.
1803 The Middlesex Canal, the first canal built for commercial use in the United States, was completed.
1806 The first church built by free blacks in America, the African Meeting House, opened on Joy Street in Boston.
1826 The first American railroad was built in Quincy.
1827 Francis Leiber opened the first swim school in America. Among the first to enroll was John Quincy Adams.
1831 The first abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, was published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison.
1837 Samuel Morse invented the electric telegraph based on Morse Code, a simple pattern of “dots” and dashes.
1839 Rubber was first vulcanized by Charles Goodyear in Woburn.
1840 The typewriter was invented by Charles Thurber in Worcester.
1845 The first sewing machine was made by Elias Howe in Boston.
1846 The first public demonstration of ether anesthetic was given in Boston.
1850 The first National Women’s Right Convention convenes in Worcester.
1865 Robert Ware of M.I.T. began the first professional training program for architects. Prior to this, architects trained in Europe or learned through apprenticeship.
1866 The first African-American legislators in New England were elected to the General Court.
1875 The first American Christmas card was printed by Louis Prang in Boston.
1876 The first telephone was demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell in Boston.
1877 Helen Magill White becomes the first woman to earn a Ph.D in the U.S. at Boston University.
1881 The Country Club in Brookline became the first dedicated to “outdoor pursuits.”
1886 The first transformer was demonstrated by William Stanley in Great Barrington.
1888 The first electric trolley in the state runs from Lynn.
1891 The first basketball game was played in Springfield. Also, Kennedy Biscuit Workers (later Nabisco) used a machine invented by James Henry Mitchell to mass-produce the first Fig Newton Cookies and named them for Newton, MA.
1893 The first successful gasoline-powered auto was perfected by Charles and Frank Duryeain in Springfield.
1895 The first volleyball game was played in Holyoke.
1896 Landscape architect Charles Eliot developed Revere Beach as the first public beach in America.
1897 April 19,1897 was the first Boston Marathon. The race was run from Boston to Ashland and the starting field was 15 runners. John J. McDermott was the winner.
1898 The first American subway system was opened in Boston.
1926 The first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Dr. Robert Goddard in Auburn.
1928 The first computer, a non-electronic “differential analyzer,” was developed by Dr. Vannevar Bush of M.I.T. in Cambridge.
1944 And, not to be outdone by M.I.T., Howard Aiken of Harvard developed the first automatic digital computer.
1961 The first nuclear-powered surfaceship, USS Long Beach, was launched in Quincy.
