{"id":10502,"date":"2024-01-31T13:20:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverebeach.com\/?p=10502"},"modified":"2024-01-31T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:27:11","slug":"reverebeach-com-welcomes-columnist-mike-pingree-and-his-view-through-the-looking-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reverebeach.com\/recent-news\/through-the-looking-glass\/reverebeach-com-welcomes-columnist-mike-pingree-and-his-view-through-the-looking-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"RevereBeach.com welcomes columnist Mike Pingree and his view Through The Looking Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today RevereBeach.com is pleased to announce the return of long-time &#8220;Through The Looking Glass&#8221; columnist Mike Pingree &#8211; a native and longtime resident of neighboring Lynn, MA &#8211; to readers in Revere, Greater Boston, the North Shore and all of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Pingree has written the offbeat &#8220;Through The Looking Glass&#8221; column for 35 years. For many years it appeared locally in the Boston Sunday Herald, and at one point was distributed to 283 newspapers in the United States by Tribune Media Services of Chicago and to 300 college papers by Knight Ridder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through The Looking Glass&#8221; also appeared regularly in The Star of Johannesburg, The Belfast Daily Mirror, the Bermuda Sun, Ireland on Sunday, The Barbados Daily Nation, The Sherbrooke Record in Quebec, The Daily Post in Fiji and the Central America Weekly in Costa Rica. At its highest point the column&#8217;s total worldwide circulation reached 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>RevereBeach.com is pleased to bring &#8220;Through The Looking Glass&#8221; back to local readership &#8211; offering long-time journalist Pingree&#8217;s take on quirky and entertaining news items as a regular feature. You can find his January 31 column for RevereBeach.com below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NqtZlMUWcJ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/reverebeach.com\/through-the-looking-glass-with-mike-pingree-2\/\">Through the Looking Glass &#8211; with Mike Pingree<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Through the Looking Glass &#8211; with Mike Pingree&#8221; &#8212; RevereBeach.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reverebeach.com\/through-the-looking-glass-with-mike-pingree-2\/embed\/#?secret=FjmQSvekQB#?secret=NqtZlMUWcJ\" data-secret=\"NqtZlMUWcJ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pingree has worked as a newspaperman at the Boston Herald, USA Today, the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune and the Thomaston (Conn.) Express. He has also been a working actor for the past 15 years, appearing in short films and on stage in Boston and Newburyport. He has acted as an extra in more than 150 movies and television shows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10468\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reverebeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC_0089.jpg?resize=201%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reverebeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC_0089.jpg?resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reverebeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC_0089.jpg?resize=685%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 685w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reverebeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC_0089.jpg?resize=768%2C1147&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reverebeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC_0089.jpg?resize=990%2C1479&amp;ssl=1 990w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reverebeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC_0089.jpg?resize=600%2C896&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reverebeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/DSC_0089.jpg?w=1004&amp;ssl=1 1004w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Pingree &#8211; for RevereBeach.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today RevereBeach.com is pleased to announce the return of long-time &#8220;Through The Looking Glass&#8221; columnist Mike Pingree &#8211; a native and longtime resident of neighboring Lynn, MA &#8211; to readers in Revere, Greater Boston, the North Shore and all of Massachusetts. 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