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 Week, it is moved for or aft, as it was ...
Edna en Plein Air: “Dip the Song in the Stream”
Edna en Plein Air: “Dip the Song in the Stream” by Antonia Shoumatoff Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was the High Priestess of the nineteen-twenties, practicing free love and breaking the rules. I was a child of the nineteen-sixties, I ...
Saint Patrick’s Day
by Kevin T McEneaney Saint Patrick’s Day was placed on the RC universal church calendar as a feast day in the early 1600’s. If Saint Patrick’s Day falls during Holy Week, it is moved for or aft, as it was ...
Notes on Valentine’s Day
by Kevin T McEneaney Emperor Claudius II ruled from 268 to 270 AD. During his reign he adopted the policy of forbidding Roman soldiers to marry, a rule that lasted long after his reign. (Officers were permitted to marry.) The ...
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 Neil Gaiman, a cult figure for the new generation of ...
There are no perfect Fathers
by Jim Flaherty There are no perfect Fathers. Okay, okay, I apologize. That broad generalization is a personal reflection. And this essay is focused on earthbound 20th century fathers, not Heavenly Fathers. I, among trillions of others, was not a ...
Homer’s Odyssey, Book One
In 1991 I acquired the paperback edition of A Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey by Stephen Huebeck, Stephanie West, and J.B. Hainsworth, which had first appeared in hardback from Clarendon in 1988. I spent two years doing my own translation. Since ...
Where Poetry and Music Meet
Smithfield Church by Denise Jordan Finley After the 10 AM Sunday service on November 7 at the historic Smithfield Church in a rural valley of Amenia, NY, I was delighted to take in a unique event featuring Kevin McEneaney, locally ...
PARTY OF PICTURES
By Thomas McGonigle “and the party will go on for a thousand years,” he was saying Every year in March there is a St. Patrick’s Day Party on West 11th Street. Rarely is it on the actual day, March 17th ...
Saxophone on the Run: Interview with Christopher Brellochs
Photo by Evangeline Gala (www.evangelinegala.com) KM: When did you show an interest in playing an instrument? CB: In 5th grade my mother told me I had to pick an instrument to study and that it could be anything except the ...