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march 2021
An exclusive magazine serving the residents of Kingston
Making Music
with Barry Doubleday
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Cover photo by Kingston Garden
Club on Pg. 7!
COMMUNITY
DEAR KINGSTON RESIDENTS
The Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce PUBLICATION TEAM
Welcome to the March issue of Kingston Living!
Publisher...........................................Jerry See March is one of my favorite months of the year. I love Saint Patrick’s
CONNECT WITH US! Content Coordinator.........................Julie Dillon Day and celebrating with my kids. When they were little and still
www.plymouthchamber.com | @plymouthareachamberofcmmerce | (508)830-1620 Designer..................................Jenna Wilkinson to this day, to be honest, Saint Patrick would visit our house and
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Vanessa Lara: Sunflower Portraits the breakfast eggs green. There is something about starting your
day with green eggs and ham. I also love to cook a traditional Irish
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RESIDENT FEATURE RESIDENT FEATURE
reminds her father of all her NH where the family, including at a full stop. Barry tells me
memories of hand truck rides Jennifer's two daughters, loves to he still gets calls daily asking
at the shop. Barry told me he hike, ski and snowshoe together. when they can resume. Most of
loves reminiscing about his girls Barry says some of his favorite Barry’s employees have chosen
spending time there and shared times with the whole family are not to return but he still has his
that Sydney carved “Sydney and hiking a 4000 footer, and having main man Jim Carriera working
Hadley sisters forever 1-23-99” a birthday cake to celebrate for and with him at the store.
into a piece of wood in the loft at Hadley's birthday on top of the "Jim is a local guitar legend in
the store and it makes him smile mountain. It has been an annual the South Shore," Barry said.
to this day. thing for the last three to four Even with the lack of lessons the
years. Barry is a cyclist and loves store has held its own during this
BARRY DOUBLEDAY AND MAIN MAN / riding all sorts of bikes and even unprecedented year. "Retail and
LONGTIME SHOP EMPLOYEE JIM CARRIERA races mtbikes and cyclocross with repair have been strong," says
his buddies. That is where he met Barry. Music is something people
Jenny actually, at a race. Barry can do from home and with not
told me one of his hopes for 2021 as much travel and going out
is to be able to race again. Barry, there has been a good amount of
Jenny, and all the girls enjoy sales with higher-end guitars and
family time and being together. starter instruments. Barry shared
Barry tells me he is looking with me that he feels "music is
forward to having more time so important to kids and adults.
in the future to do more of the It helps with math and science
Making Music with Barry Doubleday
Barry and his girlfriend Jennifer
enjoy their life in the Nook.
things he loves including playing
guitar, which he has been doing
since he was a teenager.
When covid hit, the store had to
close for two months, and just
because of its problem-solving.
Not every kid is an athlete and
a teen trying to find out who
they are can turn to music and
instruments to make them feel
good about themselves, it can be
“We live near to the Jones River like everything and everyone
so positive."
where it’s easy to bring the else Music Unlimited was not
M
kayaks and, depending on the immune to the effects of this Barry has a love-love relationship
BY JULIE DILLON
conditions, go out to the bay or pandemic. Even after reopening, with the store and appreciates
usic Unlimited the Hanover location to focus on were babies in car seats on the up the river, it's so beautiful." the lessons, which are a major that it has been intertwined
has been a fixture the Kingston store and online counter and then moved on to The couple also has a place in part of the business, had to be with all aspects of his life. He
of The Kingston sales. Barry has now been in ‘The doing homework in the loft after remarked on how his girls
community since wacky music business’ as he calls school." Sydney, the older of HIKING WITH THE FAM have made some of their most
1988. The store has serviced it, for forty-six years. He told me the girls, is thirty-one and lives meaningful relationships there.
countless Kingston residents with “It’s been a wild ride with lots of in Plymouth with her husband He has enjoyed every moment
instruments and lessons over the ups and downs.” “The store has Larry. The two met at the store and memory at Music Unlimited
years. It has aided school bands, gone through some tough times, of course. Sydney is a drummer but as mentioned earlier, Barry
professional musicians, and many but we have managed to survive.” and jams in an all-girl band of is looking forward to enjoying
local up and coming artists. Barry friends. Larry plays a variety his life in other ways now that
Barry Doubleday is sixty-five
Doubleday has been the owner/ of instruments and Barry says he is getting older. Barry has
years young and currently lives
operator of the store dating he is an excellent musician and decided to pass the torch to
in our beloved Rocky Nook with
back to 1983, starting in 1975 plays in local bands around the another owner and put the
his longtime girlfriend Jennifer
as the manager at the Hanover South Shore. He taught lessons store up for sale. He hopes to
Collins and their eleven-year-old
Mall location. Barry's uncle was at the store pre-covid and, find the right buyer that will
Golden, Ralphy. Barry and his
the original owner and started coincidentally, Barry sold him his continue the store. "There is
ex-wife, who have remained good
with the first Music Unlimited in first drum set as a kid. Hadley such a great music community
friends, lived in Kingston and
Burlington Mass, there was also a the younger daughter is twenty- here between pros that come in
Plympton and had two daughters
location in Hyannis. Barry bought seven and lives in Florida. Hadley and hobbyists." Barry impressed
together. Barry told me the girls
the store from his uncle in 1983 is an athlete and although she upon me that small businesses
grew up at the store where they
and opened the Kingston location took guitar lessons as a kid, it is
spent much of their time. "They
in 1988. He eventually closed just not her thing. Hadley often Continued on page 6
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RESIDENT FEATURE COMMUNITY
Birds!
GARDENING FOR
BY DOROTHY MACFARLANE, PH.D., SOUTH SHORE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER AND LONG-TIME MEMBER OF THE KINGSTON GARDEN CLUB
Have you been wanting to attract more birds into your them. More insects are needed in the spring to feed
yard? You can do more than putting up bird feeders. baby birds, even for seed eaters. In the fall, leave
You can also start by providing good habitat in your the stalks standing so birds can get to the seed and
are the backbone of the local community. I am sure I speak
yard and lawn. Birds need proper food, nesting sites, bugs on them. Don’t rake it out until late spring.
economy and he is very proud for all the lives you have touched
water, and shelter to thrive. Flat green lawn provides Use a little less mulch so birds can reach plain earth.
to have been a part of that. He when I wish you the best in
little of this, and the few insects found there are Birds “bathe” in dry soil. Some also require grit to
told me he has never been bored your retirement, and in finding
harmful if the grass has been treated with pesticides. help digest their food.
at the shop and that it is very our next Kingston Music Man or Changing your yard to be bird-friendly will also make
interesting with the new high Woman to keep those magical Forego the use of pesticides. They may be harmful to
a better habitat for native bees and butterflies. birds and other animals.
tech gear that comes out right notes flowing. In the words of
Start by looking for native plants. Some birds Your garden doesn’t have to be large. If your yard
down to old vintage guitars and Louis Armstrong, “Music is life
have preferences for certain plants and depend on is small or you don’t want a large garden, a few pots
amps. “There is always cool stuff itself.” You brought that life to
them for seeds, nectar, and the insects that live of native plants will still attract native birds. Or just
coming in.” Kingston Barry, for that we are
on them. Local nurseries are a good place to look. let a corner of your yard go wild. Stop mowing part
indebted to you. Thank you for
Barry, my daughter took piano Ask for natives and encourage the nursery to order of your lawn and just cut out any nonnative invasive
sharing your story with me, you
lessons at Music Unlimited years more. Spring plant sales at local nonprofits such as plants if they appear.
are a wonderful member of our
ago and has fond memories of Audubon in Marshfield and the South Shore Natural
community. Science Center in Norwell provide more. Look for Some native plants to include are:
being in your store, for that I
would like to personally thank If you or someone you know is the pure species. Varieties of natives, developed by
• Milkweed for monarch butterflies provides flower
you, but I know I am not alone interested in Music Unlimited, commercial growers, often do not have the colors
fluff for bird nests.
in my gratitude. Your passion for head on down to the shop and that attract birds or do not have much nectar. Natives
music has undoubtedly inspired have a chat with Barry to find out are accustomed to our weather and soil conditions. • Joe Pye weed and thistle have seeds and fluff.
Be sure to choose plants that need the sun and soil
many young, old, inexperienced, more. Best of luck neighbor! • Goldenrod, black eyed Susan, native asters,
conditions found in your yard.
and seasoned artists in our rudbeckia, and lambs quarter all supply seed.
A birdbath or other water feature is also helpful. Be
sure to keep it clean and change the water often • Native holly, birches, mountain ash, and mulberry
to discourage mosquitos, a less wanted native. provide shelter as well as fruit.
Evergreens or other bushy shrubs are good places
• Red cardinal flower to attract birds; blue cardinal
for shelter. They block the wind, provide perches,
flower attracts native bees.
and birds can hide in them when predators approach.
You may be lucky enough to be providing nest sites • There are many more natives available to choose
as well. At the same time, keep your kitty indoors. from, and nurseries provide lists to pick from.
Cats are a major predator of native birds. Their food Enjoy your plants and new bird friends as your
should come from a package, not the bushes. garden grows.
In a change from the usual, leave your garden a To learn more about the Kingston Garden Club, visit
little messy. Let your lawn grow a little longer. Food our Facebook page, Garden Club of Kingston MA. For
insects and worms will live in the leaf litter. Ground membership information, please contact Jen Hicks at
feeding birds will scratch through the litter to find jenniferrickard3@gmail.com.
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COMMUNITY COMMUNITY
wet or snowy March day, the St. Paddy’s Day parade Saint Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland, it’s
has, in my memory, been a time of cheering and his day, although shared with Evacuation Day in
When the Saints
noise and hopping from foot to foot to cast away the Massachusetts, it is, after all, the celebration of a
winter chill and watch the parade pass by. Saint. Who is he? Why is he celebrated around the
world? Did he visit Boston? No, but Saint Brendan
South Boston in the fifties and sixties saw the
Come Marching In
the Navigator came close. Why Patrick wasn’t even
Kennedy family come out in force and walk Irish!
the parade route, or sit in open top cars to
wave, including that toothy tall senator from So here is where the saints come marching in.
Massachusetts and “Jackie.” Rose Kennedy, whose March 17th was the date of Patrick’s death; it is also
grandparents came from Limerick and Cavan, halfway through the month and nearing the time
and Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston from of spring. Springtime was celebrated in Ireland by
1944- 1970, whose parents hailed from Cork and pagans before the introduction of Christianity. In
Waterford, were always attractions to look for in the the 5th and 6th century in Ireland legends were
procession. born who would become saints. Saint Brigid was
the perfect embodiment of hospitality; miraculously
After the parade everyone went back to the house she could milk her cows three times a day to
for a ceilidh (social gathering with live music). provide a meal for visitors. Saint Kevin outstretched
Welcomed (failte) with an Irish coffee steaming hot, his arm and when a blackbird came and nested
Beth Cameron-Kilbridge has been performing as a seanachie
tantalizing the taste buds with a fine Irish whiskey there, Kevin kept his arm outstretched until eggs
since the 1970’s telling tales from the four cycles of Irish and heavy cream drizzled down the back of a spoon were hatched and fledglings grew and flew away.
Mythology: The Ulster, The Fenian, The Historical and The into a clear glass, the colors mingling and blending Saint Brendan sailed to North America. Columbia of
Mythological Cycles. Beth has performed for schools, universities,
conferences and museums in the US, UK and Ireland.
to perfection. Though in Chicago they dye the river the Quick Hand transcribed the Gospels and spread
green, here the “wearing of the green” can be as the word of God with each book given away. Saint
simple as a plastic green hat or a homemade tam’o Patrick was kidnapped, brought to Ireland, and sold
shanter will do, no green beer, just the golden as a slave and yet after a daring escape many years
BY BETH CAMERON-KILBRIDGE glow of Harp Larger from County Louth to “wet the later he chose to return to Ireland. Their lives were
shamrock.” In the kitchen a boiling pot of steaming extraordinary and their legends are still told.
If you are inside and missing the music and mirth Eighteen Episodes of “The Irish R.M.” set in the West grey new England corned beef, cabbage, carrots,
associated with the Irish celebrations and the St. of Ireland in the turn of the twentieth century. parsnips, turnips, potatoes (neeps & taddies), It seemed fitting, since this year all the comradery
Paddy’s Day parade, here are some suggested and onions, warms the atmosphere and creates a may be at arm’s length, very long arms, six feet
materials for your enjoyment: Then turn off the telie and pour a wee dram of
“Glendalough Poitin” (pronounced po-tcheen), an thirst for something cool and smooth. What better of separation and faces covered with masks, that
DOCUMENTARIES: Ed Sullivan not only got the Irish Whiskey made from sugar beets and barley, choice than a pint of Guinness with a shamrock we journey back in time to the land beyond the
Beatles started up in America but also put The also traditionally made from potatoes, molasses, etched in the frothy foam, from Ireland not Canada mist and follow the legends of the Saints for an
Clancy Brothers and Tommy Mackem on the map. and grains. Poitin is also called the “Devil’s Spittle”, (check label for location of brewery) to wet one’s afternoon. I will be telling stories about Ireland’s
YouTube has a documentary on “The Story of The “Mountain Tea” and “Mountain Dew”, previously whistle, and a pennywhistle too, and spoons played saints and heroes on ZOOM at 1pm for the Duxbury
Clancy Brothers and Tommy Mackem” and another referred to as Irish Moonshine. Slan! against the knee, and an old tune sung. Warm Senior Center, all are welcome, contact DSC for a
on the Kennedy’s rise to fame, “The Kennedy’s Irish Irish soda bread emerges from the oven and is ZOOM invitation and join me as we explore the life
Mafia” both full of local lore and great memories. …Turn on the CD Player now, stoke the fire, or light lathered with Kerrygold butter and nibbled till and times of Saint Patrick, and a host of other saints
the candles and relax with some memorable Irish the dinner is served. Singing and dancing in tight and heroes that march thru the tales on the 17th.
FEATURE FILMS: Two films of fantasy and fun, music, dancing is optional. quarters with relatives of all ages accompanied Cead Mille Failte.
“Waking Ned Devine” (1998) and “The Secret of by the mighty craic (conversation). It was always
Roan Inish” (1994) and two films featuring the MUSIC CD’S: a joyous day of lilt and laughter, filled to the gills
young, now departed Sean Connery in “Darby The Chieftains, Water From The Well, (2000 with hearty fare and drunk as a lord to boot, like
O’Gill and the Little People” (1959) and that greatly a scene from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty when the
Andreia
Clannad, Magical Ring, (1983)
missed frolicking Irishman, Richard Harris, in fairy Merriweather puts all the guests to sleep until
Jonathan Swift’s tale of “Gulliver’s Travels” (1977). John McDermott, Battlefields of Green, (1992) the Prince comes to wake the Princess Aurora with
Planxty, Planxty, (1973) reissued by Phil Coulter for a kiss, so all the family travel to the land of Nod in
COMEDY: Hop onto YouTube for funny routines sweet repose on chairs and chesterfields around the
Shanachie Records (1989)
from Jury’s Cabaret in Dublin with the late great, room.
James Galway, Phil Coulter & Liam Neeson, Winter’s
Hal Roach or stand-up excerpts from Brendan Grace
appearances. (funny without foul language) Crossing, (1998) But it’s not the drowning of the shamrock or the Cleaning Service
drum & bugle and bagpipe bands, or the clip-
BINGE WATCHING SERIES: Watching all the …From my home to yours, Slainte (cheers)! clopping of the Clydesdale horses’ hooves, or
episodes of “Ballykissangel” from County Wicklow
at least up to the end of Series Three when Father
Looks like the Saint Patrick’s Day Parades will be a floats and baton-twirlers, or the memory of a Andreia Cunha
“wee bit muted” this year, if held at all. Lining the local politician who became the first Irish Catholic Residential & Commercial Service
Peter (Stephen Tompkinson) leaves after Assumpta’s President; or the mouth-watering meat and veg; or
sidewalks of South Boston, New York City, Chicago, 774-283-0668 • andreiageo2018@gmail.com
(Dervla Kirwan) death or the stories by the Anglo- the mighty craic that has everyone celebrating; it’s
Dublin, London and numerous other cities around
Irish novelists, Somerville and Ross, told in the Saint Patrick! Serving Kingston with Distinction • Ask about my references!
the world, shoulder to shoulder often on a cold or
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COMMUNITY COMMUNITY
The COA would be negligent if we did not mention
the facilities department as strategic infrastructure
changes were made to our building for the
protection of the staff and volunteers and to provide
for a safe environment when we reopened on a
limited basis late in the year. Everyone who enters
is subject to the new safety and sanitary features
that are in place.
The police and fire departments have been
incredible in not only being first responders to help
our elders in need of assistance, but in helping
provide direction for the protection of our staff,
PROTECTING
volunteers, and guests. YOUR BIGGEST
As usual, the Friends of the KCOA provided much
ASSETS
financial assistance to Outreach, special programs,
and their Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. This
year, they also contributed numerous Stop & Shop
gift cards with their Christmas Grab & Go and
more to the COA. They continue to be active and
Kingston Council on Aging's Annual Board Report supportive in these trying times. ATLANTIC INSURANCE, WHERE HAVING
SUBMITTED BY HOLLY NIGHELLI , KINGSTON COUNCIL ON AGING, ARTICLE WRITTEN BY ADVISORY BOARD CHAIRMAN, JOSEPH FAVALORO We are committed to continuing to serve the seniors THE RIGHT COVERAGE IS NO ACCIDENT!
of Kingston in 2021, in a variety of ways and look
The Kingston Council on Aging is the focal point for calls and are confidential. forward to welcoming them back into the Senior BUSINESS • HOME • AUTO • LIFE
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KYSO KORNER; AN UPDATE FROM KYSO
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IDEAL TEAM PLAYER? By Patrick Lencioni, founder and president,
The Table Group
Have you ever wondered what makes a person easy to work with? may be the most dangerous kind of “non-humble” team players.
I’m convinced that there are three required virtues that make
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you to all of those who participated in
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are poison on a team. Whether we’re talking about Little League
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With spring just around the corner, Baseball, corporate leadership or emergency response, team
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KYSO is looking forward to safely Kingstonyouthsports.org members with big egos tend to bring down team performance by
winners: team players, in addition to being humble and hungry, know how
resuming youth sports at Kingston's distracting attention away from the collective goals of the team and
wonderful complexes. Soccer and Brandi O'Neil demotivating peers who resent their excessive need for attention. to understand their colleagues and work with them effectively.
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kingston@gmail.com. or moment from time to time, but those that work to develop their
deflated understanding of their own talents and abilities. They
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could. But that’s not as bad as the people who, like them, on teams and in life.
discount their abilities, but don’t support and Other Resources:
encourage their peers. These Pat’s Ted Talk on becoming an ideal team player:
www.ted.com/talks/patrick_lencioni_are_you_an_ideal_team_player
The Ideal Team Player Self-Assessment:
www.tablegroup.com/books/ideal-team-player/self-assessment/
Patrick Lencioni was named in Fortune magazine
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