PUTNEY — Sending love and condolences to Joyce Marcel [“The death of Rose Kagan,” Voices, Jan. 4]. I always loved reading her essays about her mother, Rose, in the paper and in her book, A Thousand Words or Less.
I love that her mom was buried with her red dance shoes. Funerals are for the survivors, and everyone knew Rose for her spunk and as a dancer.
May Rose's memory be for a blessing.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
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With an estimated bill of $733 million to repair or replace buildings and infrastructure damaged by Tropical Storm Irene, Vermont is now borrowing money at a faster pace than any other state in the country. According to a report last week by Bloomberg News, the state of Vermont and its cities and towns have sold $492 million of municipal bonds so far this year. That is up $99 million over the same period last year. Roads and infrastructure in 200...
The recent revelations of genocide and the all-too-familiar accompanying atrocities in North Korea are obviously extremely disturbing, though not totally shocking given what we know about the leadership of that unfortunate state. If history is an indicator, it is unlikely that the United States or other Western powers will intervene in a meaningful way, particularly with North Korea in possession of a nuclear arsenal. The century's first genocide occurred in 1915 and was committed by Turkey against its Armenian minority,
Adventures in writing, research, history, and music will be featured in “How the Muse was Manufactured: An Author's Tale of Bringing the Estey Story to Life,” a talk by Dennis Waring at the Annual Meeting of the Estey Organ Museum on Sept. 17. Waring will tell how his doctoral dissertation at Wesleyan University became the book, Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs and Consumer Culture in Victorian America, published by Wesleyan in 2002 and still in print. “I would like to...
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