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JUNE RECIPE
Sharon Pharmacy: It’s a family affair
“This is it!” The car had rolled through the sleepy town of Sharon, CT, in 1960. Just a family on an outing, exploring parts of the state that were remote from their home in Norwich. They were thinking of relocating. There was a house available on Calkinstown Road. There was an open retail space in […]
Sidelined
There’s a wind coming off the Hudson. Frankly, it’s got a real bite to it. After all, it’s autumn in the tri-state area and along with leaves flaming into brilliant color, busloads of appreciative “leaf peepers” and end-of-season sales at local stores, it’s time to stand on the sidelines of a soccer game, a football […]
Art and anguish: Event production 101
“What exactly does a producer do?”
If I got a nickel for every time that question has been asked, I might have amassed … perhaps … close to $2.00. It’s a fair question, however, even if the financial payout would hardly be worth the effort.
Given the opportunity to describe what actors do; what a director […]
Lessons from the (Rail)road
We all have a list of things we haven’t done, but muse about.
“If I just had the time …”
“If there’s one thing I’d like to do …”
“It’s on my ‘bucket list’ …”
Admittedly, some are merely flights of fantasy. Most of us will never climb the Matterhorn, drive a Ferrari at […]
Rob Dyson: Driver, Owner, Collector
In retrospect, it was a fairly straightforward love story. The young man was 14, just coming of age. The object of his affection? A 1931 Model A Ford offered for sale by a local farmer. The price? The princely sum of $50, which in 1959 was real money to a 14-year-old. It didn’t run … […]
Writing about writing
John Lennon summed it up. “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.” Things change when we least expect them, and frankly, we can have no response other than to be swept away in the current.
When these odd machines called computers emerged, it seemed that everyone with access to a […]
The Roar of the Crowd: Renee Taylor contends that “Dying is No Excuse”
Above photo courtesy of Renee Taylor/Berkshire Theatre Group
There is what some might call “conventional wisdom” that suggests a certain age for retirement and, with grace, a gentle fade into quiet oblivion. People of that certain age have had their moments in the sun, their 15 minutes of fame and, mercifully, it’s time to recede into […]
Two scoops and keep the change
Welcome to ice cream cone season. We doubt that there’s an official governmental edict designed to distinguish these summer days from the rest of the year, but with the way things have been going, that might not be far away. That, however, is a different subject.
These are the days when we find our way to […]
Garden Time
Above photo courtesy of iStock user Marina Lohrbach.
“You still have time.”
The young lady at the garden center had been watching from a distance and edged closer to overhear our conversation rife with indecision. There was a bit of laughter in our back and forth, with remembrances […]