Comity ~ "portal" to come to know more about the Waterside community of Newburport

Comity defined & divined ~
more at SMILE

The Waterside in a Motion of
Comity ~ the past is prologue

The Present & Future ~ the
Waterside Plan in Motion

Measuring time & progress ~
benchmarks & milestones ~

Once in a Blue Moon Opportunities

Poetry in Motion ~ assorted
poems ~ a Proem, of sorts

The Virtual Meetinghouse ~
revived in moons to come

City of Newburyport Arms and Seal

Correspondingly ~
something to SMILE about

Hear ye! Hear ye! Read ye ~
important notices of events

Compass/calendar/chronicle
~ tidings w/new & full moons

The Waterside community
"gams" & gatherings ~

Ongoing at the upcoming Labor Day Fetsival!

Waxing Poetic ~ "Looming
wisdom ~ daily spun"

The Virtual Wolfe Tavern ~
"raised" with the Full Wolf Moon

Mouse over text & image to explore
& gather more facts about history &
"history in the making" ~ here, near & "from away"

Sturgeon (or Green Corn or Grain or Ripe Berries or Red) Moon

New Moon 0% visible 8/10 - 8/11
Full Moon 99% visible 8/24 - 8/25

SMILE (Seek More Information/insight Logged/linked Electronically ) on the World Wide Web ...
About Moons & Tides in "time & space" ...
Full Moon names at FarmersAlmanac.com
Moon's astrological place at (Old Farmers) Almanac.com
Regional tides, Moon & Sun rises at SaltWaterTides.com
About timekeeping & keeping pace with the Heavens ...
Calendars throughout the Ages at webexhibits.org
Perpetual calendar at timeanddate.com
Suggested by a "Comity connection" ~ calendar-365.com
Select Comity "inspired" pieces by The Fourth Estate ...
"Moon Walking" (with footnotest) retraces the Waterside's Cosmology (Newburyport Current, 11/05/04)
"The Waterside looks to the night sky" ~ article/image regarding Full Corn Moon (Newburyport Current, 9/03/09)

Virtual portal to
Come to know more about
The Waterside
community of Newburyport, Massachusetts

... the place we can see our tomorrows dawn

& reflect a measure of time at eventide ...

looming wisdom, daily spun ...


How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world ... When the moon shone we did not see the candle ... So doth the greater glory dim the less ... (conversation between Portia & Nerisse in Scene V Act 1 of William Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice') Let us all aspire to such "goodly conversation" & "familiar commerce" on both stage & page. And seek out "thoughtways" at every turn.

Turn to the most current "conversation piece" presented on page (in print & online) at this link within

In turn, join the conversation (& concert) presented on stage at the Waterside "Gam & Jam" held Sun 8/22

On Feb 4, 1764, the Waterside Third Parish of Newbury was established as the separate town of Newburyport ~ with the first town meeting held Feb 8, 1764 ...

Remarking a 246-year milestone in the Waterside's history & "history in the making" ... To end the old-style civic year (Mar 25, 2009 - Mar 24, 2010, termed "The Year of Charting New Courses" & begin the next (Mar 25, 2010 - Mar 24, 2011, termed "The Year of Boundless Ambitions") ...

To mete out more insight about the Waterside in the virtual sense ~ the Comity.org website will be revised in phases with upcoming full & new Moons ~ with major revisions planned after the new-style calendar & turn of the old-style civic calendar year.

Until then, the reader can always find always something to SMILE about at this link within & join the conversation at the Virtual Wolfe Tavern

To meet about the Waterside community in the physical sense at gams & gatherings ~ or come to a "meeting of the minds" at forums & meetings ~ check the notice of scheduled events at this link within

SMILE (Seek More Information Logged/linked Electronically) at the following ~

Key links within
(the Comity.org website)

Key links without
(the World Wide Web)

Wonder of Wonder!
Lord Timothy Dexter
in (pro)Motion of Comity

Site Map ~
Navigating the Narrative

Lord Timothy Dexter & The Fifth Estate
in a Motion of Comity
(LordTimothyDexter.com domain)

Reflections of the Waterside ~
Photographic Memory

City Charter review process

City of Newburyport Website
(CityofNewburyport.com)

Old Beacon Oak ~
The Forum Tree

Wood's journal published 1634 ~
"New England's Prospect"

Chamber of Commerce Website
(NewburyportChamber.com)

Public forum archives:
Year 2002 ~ Year 2003 ~ Year 2007

The Ship (navigating the narrative) ~
The Ship is Ready (Come home! Come home!)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Website
(Mass.gov City of Newburyport related links)

The Waterside Community Milestones
(Essex Heritage Certificate)

The Waterside people's 1763 petition to form the separate town of Newburyport (in 1764)

Essex National Heritage Area
(EssexHeritage.org)

Newburyport's historic burial grounds ~
Seek & ye shall find insight & onsite tours

Tiptoe Through the Tombstones tours & award-winning book by Ghlee Woodworth

Gravematter.com ~
OakHillCemeteryNewburyport.com

Bill Plante's Sometimes Series
on Newburyport's restoration

Historic "wayes" to the Waterside
(bollard marker ~ mosaic map ~ stipulated facts)

The Newburyport Daily News Series
"A Port in Progress"

Local Press: Archived collection of
pieces & threads to "loom wisdom"

Newburyport Labor Day festival: Promotional Poster for 2010 ~
MySpace homepage ~ MySpace blog

Local Print Media Online:
Newburyport Daily News
Newburyport Current (weekly)

Local Press: Published correspondence,
letters to the editor & "conversation pieces"
forwarded in a Motion of Comity
(abridged print & unabridged & annotated versions)

Select communications ~ forwarded in a Motion of Comity by the Committee of Correspondence ~ (Comity, so called, "on behalf of ye rest"

Local Broadcast & Electronic Media:
Port Media (cable public access programming)
Newburyport Business (e-zine)
Newburyport Today (e-source)
Greater Newburyport Today (e-source)

Make a Comity connection ~
Email: Comity@comity.org