BROOKLINE — Thank you, Becca Balint, for sharing your grandfather's words. It is beyond sad that such a kind, thoughtful man was murdered in Austria years ago, yet this hateful energy is still alive today.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Visitors to Main Street can't help but notice the wooden barrels filled with flowers, or the flower boxes that surround Pliny Park, or the sparkling white lights and wreaths during the holiday season. Dick DeGray and Missy Galanes would have earned their Persons of the Year award from the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce just for their downtown beautification efforts. But that only scratches the surface of the many ways they've contributed to the community over the years. In saluting...
The acoustic jazz ensemble Rhythm Future Quartet has a straightforward agenda: to keep the spirit of Gypsy jazz alive and expanding in today's musical universe. The foursome will be doing just that in their Stone Church Arts' performance in the Chapel at Immanuel Episcopal Church, 20 Church St., on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. According to a news release, the group, named for a Django Reinhardt tune, will offer up “a newly minted sound, influenced by the classic Hot...
Ken Burns's latest historical video narrative, The Vietnam War, reminds many of us of that historical era, the French and U.S. actions, and the proof of philosopher and essayist George Santayana's words, “Those without a sense of history are doomed to repeat it.” The documentary also reminds us of the systemic and righteous mendacity of U.S. leadership, oblivious to the huge ripples of suffering it was inflicting on peoples across the world. Suffering that continues today. And, for what? Even...
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