It was a beautiful fall day. Typical for an early September day. The sun shone bright, while the temperature was absolutely perfect. No humidity. Arguably the most perfect fall day.

John Saunders is a director. He is also the producing artistic director of The Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham, NY, having taken that role when Lynne Haydn passed away in 2018; co-founder Linda MacNish passed in 2002.

On the heels of Artificial Intelligence-laden graduation speeches that audiences met with full-throated boos, this moment lends some financial gravitas to the emotional backlash against AI. In its purest version, the question is, “What should the future of work be?”

If you don’t already know the name Elizabeth Rose Forbes, consider this your official introduction.

But no matter how one looks at it, AI is in our midst, like it or not.

I came here as a child and have partially grown up in this country, embracing its history, culture, and ways while meshing it with my Icelandic culture and heritage. I am, in so many ways, living the American Dream.

Meet Alanna Broesler and Jim Buhs for the first time at their restaurant, Willa, in Millerton, NY, and be ready to be treated like an old friend.

Spoiler alert: it is not, as the name led me – and, I have discovered, others – to believe, associated with any brotherhood as in a religious order.