GUILFORD — Joyce Marcel's column, “The death of Rose Kagan” [Voices, Jan. 4], is beautifully written and moving. It speaks strongly to those of us who are seeing aging parents through illness and death.
It's a dose of reality, too - the reality of hospitals, even when they are trying hard to do the right thing, and the reality of death when it is not prettified.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
For people of color, one impediment to farming is lack of access to farmland. It cannot be overlooked that a generational wealth gap exists and has only grown for people of color, preventing them from owning land and other assets that can accrue value over time. By being marginalized for so many generations, people of color have not had the wealth - including farmland - passed down over time that white people have. And, over those generations, the gap has...
I recently attended a memorial service for a dear friend who died last year at the age of 92. “Abigail” was a person whom I met through work, someone I probably would have never met under any other circumstance. She became the diamond in the rough in an otherwise nightmarish work experience. Abigail and I bonded as we tried to maneuver through our trying workdays while learning to communicate with each other. She became deaf in her 50s due to...
Joel “Veena” Eisenkramer's deep love for the classical music of north India has propelled him from his roots in southern Vermont to living and performing all over India and the world. On Sunday, Sept. 12, he will be performing a concert of Indian ragas on the 20-stringed Indian slide guitar at the Stone Church, accompanied by tabla artist Mir Naqibul Islam. Eisenkramer, who performs as Joel Veena, began his study of the Indian slide guitar in 2007 while on a...
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