Moonstruck

by Kevin T McEneaney If our moon was not up there shining light in the middle of the shadowy night, the earth would wobble and shake so much that humans…

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 Bruce Molsky Fiddling & Fingering @ The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney While Bruce Molsky was born in the southern Bronx, he is now one of the leading Old-Timey musicians in this country playing predominantly Southern Appalachian tunes.…

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Foreign Languages

by Kevin T McEneaney Did you know flowers speak to bumblebees by way of electrical impulses? When a flower has not attracted bees, it gives off static electricity which pulls…

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Greenroom Ensemble: Awe at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney Virgil Thomson’s essay “On Being American” (New York Herald Tribune, 25 January 1948) pointed out that World War II destroyed provincial attitudes while simultaneously allowing the…

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Rolling on the river

by Bill Schlesinger Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river Proud Mary by Credence Clearwater Revival, 1969 When the U.S. Supreme Court, now with a largely Trump-appointed conservative majority, overturned the Roe…

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Mathis Picard: Magician of 88 keys

by Kevin T McEneaney Friday night The Stissing Center (in Pine Plains) featured pianist Mathis Picard (born in France and fluently bi-lingual), who now resides on the Upper West Side…

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The laughing animal

by Kevin T McEneaney In the nineteenth century, we thought we were more intelligent than animals, and that we were not animals ourselves. * In the twentieth century, we thought…

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Bard College: Música Mexicana Amazes

by Kevin T McEneaney This superb program of Mexican music opened with Ferial (Town Fair, 1940) by Manuel Maria Ponce, a close friend of Andrés Segovia who acclaimed Ponce as…

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Dusk

by Bill Keller Beginning in May, we take feeders out  each morning, bring them in again at dusk; tall cylinders of sugar water,  some straight, some with a waist — …

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