Gone Away

by Neil Donnelly                                        Our school was playing in a town near                                        Blackstairs. I got on the bus, then went                                        straight to your house where years                                        before…

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Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet at The Stissing Center

by Kevin T McEneaney The tango (a fight, a lewd dance, a celebration) was born between 1880 and 1900 in brothels and/or prisons on the South American continent. The most…

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Bank-side lyric

The high honking of ducks in early March signals return of warmer weather, yet nighttime frost may strike at any night. Each morning, light arrives much earlier with indication of…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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