Author: Bill Schlesinger

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Environment

What’s in a Road Name?

Close up image of a young skunk walking toward the camera. Summer in Wisconsin by Bill Schlesinger When I see a road sign for Quail Run Lane in a new…

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April 17, 2023
Sections / Theater

Sarah Bernhardt’s Resurrection of Hamlet in Rhinebeck

Rebecca Brown Adelman as Hamlet by Kevin T McEneaney Perhaps the title above should read Rebecca Brown Adelman resurrects Theresa Rebek’s excellent play Bernhardt/Hamlet (2018) in Rhinebeck at the Center…

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April 16, 2023
Poetry / Sections

Bees in Peril

by Kevin T McEneaney Welcome to the microscopic venue! Bumblebees remain in massive decline. Maine, New Hampshire, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont no longer have bumblebees……

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April 10, 2023
Poetry / Sections

Plants weeping all around the world

by Kevin T McEneaney Plants and flowers do not possess a mouth, yet they complain and cry with snaping noise at a frequency beyond our hearing, resembling the popping of…

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April 4, 2023
Environment / Sections

Deerly Beloved

by Bill Schlesinger Most folks who live in the eastern United States, particularly in New England, are likely to have experienced more than one close encounter with White-Tail deer.  In…

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April 4, 2023
Music / Sections

Daniel Hope & Zurich Chamber Orchestra Soars at Hotchkiss

From left: Concertmaster Willi Zimmermann and Director Daniel Hope by Kevin T McEneaney Music Director Fabio Witkowski of Hotchkiss School somehow managed to book Daniel Hope, one of the greatest…

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March 30, 2023
Poetry / Sections

1974

Lucy in museum by Kevin T McEneaney “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was played repeatedly by archeologists when they discovered old hominid bones going back 3.18 million years; while…

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March 28, 2023
Poetry / Sections

I see you; do you see me?

by Kevin T McEneaney Humans have difficulties with eyesight, which are defective if one compares them to birds, fish, or even tiny insects. These many creatures have better eyesight. All…

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March 24, 2023