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J Barry Ferguson awaiting to board, on his 92nd birthday

Obituary: J Barry Ferguson – ebullient
Friend of the Mahurangi

Cimino | 19 November 2023
J Barry Ferguson (1931–2023) became a friend of theFriends of the Mahurangi was name of Mahurangi Action Incorporated when established, in 1974 MahuranFriends of the Mahurangi was name of Mahurangi Action Incorporated when established, in 1974giFriends of the Mahurangi was name of Mahurangi Action Incorporated when established, in 1974 even before he left Long Island. For his two, too-brief decades here, Barry lived in  the Mahurangi, not in his illustrious New York past, as grateful and as proud as he was to have been unambiguously…

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Mahurangi Regatta marquee, 2008

Buy the ultimate Mahurangi 
Regatta marquee now!

Cimino | 8 Nov 2023
In the wholly unlikely event that Mahurangi had  served a period as New Zealand’s capital, after its potential suitability had been assessed for that purpose, the harbourscape of Auckland’s best kept secret would, today, be predominantly urban. In glorious contrast…

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Waiwera–Mahurangi, aerial

appendix 2
Buy Waiwera plan b or…

Cimino | 5 October 2023
Myriad reasons make it preferable, for Buy Waiwera plan b, to instead be: Buy Waiweraphase 2. That said, should the Buy Waiwera moonshot fail to make it to the launch pad, an end-to-end Mahurangi Coastal Path would make for a stunningly salubrious plan b. Buy

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The Times They Are a Changin album cover

Child hunger in Aotearoa ends here, now

Cimino | 14 Jul 2024
Listening to his youngest, ‘waiting house’ roommate crying himself to sleep broke Cimino’s heart. The boy was more than 500 kilometres from his East Coast hill country sheep station home. His mother could not have had the slightest notion of the privations visited on…

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Hubert Cance profiles and plans of the LCA

It’s a barge! It’s a boat!
It’s the J Barry Ferguson 

Cimino | 28 Jun 2023
By any reasonable criteria, the J BarryFerguson  can be described as a landing barge. Clearly not in the assault-troop-landing sense, not least of all because of its diminutive size. In one very important respect, however, the J BarryFerguson  is not a typical…

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Adam Tooze

chapter 5
Losing the bloody The

Cimino | 7 Aug 2024
Opportunist, along with perfectionist, were just two of the many terms Cimino, as a child, had misappre­hended as entirely laudatory attributes—Cimino and a sibling being, almost certainly, each somewhere along the autistic continuum. Although his father, Claud…

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United States Troops, Queen Street, World War II

chapter 9 – Dire need to name
Mega-climate polycrisis

Cimino | 9 Jul 2024
By its first centennial, all bets are off as to what the ever-deepening, mega-climate polycrisis will be being called, much less by the time its first millenniala 1000th anniversary or its celebration. First known, adjectival use recorded 1660 rolls round. Cimino, in 2024, has adopted Climate Polycrisis, fully cognisant of the possibility that, by the end of…

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Launching of the SS Zebulon B. Vance

chapter 12 – Liberty kitchen
End to child hunger

Cimino | 21 Jul 2024
Food, clothing, shelter, and something to hope for—to paraphrase Kirk. First for a few, and now for gen­erations, since 1984 when the Labour Party set about with its secret, state-destroying agenda, increasing numbers of New Zealand children have gone…

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