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Saint Patrick’s Day

y Kevin T McEneaney Saint Patrick’s Day was placed on the RC universal church calendar as a feast day in the early 1600s. If Saint Patrick’s Day falls during Holy…

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March 16, 2025
Music / Sections

Bard Sosnoff: From Mozart to Perle

by Kevin T McEneaney Under the baton of Dr. Leon Botstein, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra opened its March 15th concert with Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56A (1873).…

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March 16, 2025
Poetry / Sections

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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March 11, 2025
Music / Sections

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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March 10, 2025
Poetry / Sections

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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March 4, 2025
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