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I'm looking forward to the Putney Grade School reunion, and seeing all of you. Thank you for all your hard work.
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...
“'Black Lives Matter' is the baseline,” says Amber Arnold, cofounder of SUSU Healing Collective. “We more than matter. How do we make sure our people are not just surviving but thriving?” With that goal in mind, SUSU Healing Collective started a GoFundMe campaign at the end of May to raise money to buy community-supported agriculture (CSA) shares for local families of color. In just five days, the campaign surpassed its goal of $12,000, and 22 families were awarded shares of...
Children have an odd fascination with knowing how old adults are. It's in their DNA to think of life experience in terms of numbers. At my first daughter's first birthday party, I'm on film saying, “When your child is turning 60, you know you're old.” I was speaking about my grandmother and my uncle. It was his 60th birthday, and my grandmother was traveling to celebrate with him. At 27, sitting with my 1-year-old, I couldn't even grasp the idea...
In the second concert of its 45th season, the Windham Orchestra, under the direction of Hugh Keelan, invites audience and players to a concert that he says is a great opportunity for inspiration and participation. Keelan is asking string players from all traditions to come and play with the orchestra in a performance of a piece he calls “a sublime masterpiece for massed strings”: Vaughan Williams' “Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.” Keelan also wants wind and brass players...
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