Author: Bill Schlesinger

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Environment / Sections

Net Metering

by Bill Schlesinger In 2013, my wife and I built a home in Maine powered by 6.2 kW of Sunpower Solar panels installed by Revision Energy.  Our solar panels are…

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March 3, 2025
Music

Crescendo: Renaissance Voice Painting

by Kevin T McEneaney This past Sunday at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, Crescendo offered a choral presentation, predominantly by female authors who are not well-known. The program, under…

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March 3, 2025
Poetry / Sections

The plain of ice

by Kevin T McEneaney That carpet of white snow has turned to ice…. Footprints of deer and small birds are frozen pockets that reveal random wanderings. * The ice is…

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February 26, 2025
Books / Sections

Nuclear Disaster

The Last Wave from Port Chicago by Peter Vogel 2025, edition compiled by Walter Wilkinson. This electronic book on the 10,000-pound nuclear Gadget exploded offers a summary version of Peter…

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February 25, 2025
Music / Sections

Schubert’s Winterreise at Grace Church

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Friday evening at Grace Church Chapel the newly formed nonprofit Millbrook Music Salon under President Stephen Kaye hosted Baritone Benjamin Appl, accompanied by Bryan Wagorn…

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February 22, 2025
Environment / Sections

Organofluoride contaminants

by Bill Schlesinger Agricultural extension agents in separate counties in Texas and Maine have reported high levels of PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl) compounds in farmland soils, potentially contaminating groundwater and…

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February 20, 2025
Poetry / Sections

Spoons

by Bill Keller I drop the pair, still dripping, into the rack, careful to turn one edgewise, so that they won't do what they like * to do -- embrace…

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February 18, 2025
Poetry / Sections

The Door

by Neil Donnelly There’s an old boy running for the bus! shouts a passenger, stepping off. Driver waits, keeps the door open while his impatient engine irritates. The old boy,…

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February 11, 2025
About TMI / Music / Sections / Theater

Blind Injustice: a WOW at Lincoln Center

MasterVoices presents Blind Injustice, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, Monday, February 3, 2025. Credit Photo: Erin Baiano by Kevin T McEneaney In the MasterVoices Series under the…

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February 5, 2025
Music / Sections

Sam Gravitte: Cabaret at the Stissing Center

Cabaret is a refreshing venue that transports one to the land of love and humor. Last Saturday night in Pine Plains was the season opening for 2025 with actor Sam…

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February 3, 2025