Fabio Witkowski & The Hotchkiss Orchestra

by Kevin T McEneaney Last Saturday evening amid the superior acoustics of Elfers Hall, Fabio Witkowski conducted The Hotchkiss Orchestra with an imaginative musical program of Bedřich Smetana, Aram Khachaturian,…

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Neil Gaiman at Bard College

Photo from Wikipedia/commons by Tonia Shoumatoff The Fisher Performing Arts Center at Bard was filled with a panoply of young people, some with Tolkien elf ears, who came to hear…

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Traveler

by Kevin T McEneaney While packing for my final vacation, it occurred to me that I need not pack anything at all except humor to deal with everlasting darkness where…

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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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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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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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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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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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