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ON THE SCENE: It is raining? I hadn’t noticed ... the food and drink were too good
May 14, 2012 I like scotch neat, with a glass of water on the side, several friends of mine add some water to their scotch saying that they feel a bit of water opens up the flavor. more »»
MARTHA SEZ: Remember the Baby Buggy Burglars?
May 14, 2012 “Signs of spring: I am looking at a crocus and a robin in my back yard. Some kind of semi-congealed precipitation, about the consistency of a Slurpee, is falling on them both. more »» 
WORLD FOCUS: Reports from a Distant Place
April 19, 2012 For some time, friends and readers of Lake Placid News and Virginia Gazette have urged me to gather in a book a collection of my columns that dealt with survival during the Holocaust. more »» 
ON THE SCENE: A visit to Israel
April 12, 2012 “Do you see that building over there with the golden dome,” said David Hur, our guide to Old Jerusalem. We nodded. “That’s the Dome of the Rock. more »»
MARTHA SEZ: The signs of spring
April 12, 2012 Signs of spring: Town workers are out sweeping up the sand they spread on the roads and sidewalks over the winter. more »»
WORLD FOCUS: Why neighbors kill neighbors
April 12, 2012 The phenomenon of neighbors killing neighbors, as it happened in the first weeks after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarosa, on June 22, 1941, have long puzzled... more »»
NEWS FROM W'TON: Historical Society membership drive under way
April 12, 2012 Hello Everybody, let’s find out what’s been happening in Wilmington, shall we? A few columns ago, birthday wishes had been sent out to Bea Lawrence who turned 95 in February. more »» 
ON THE SCENE: The road to Redford, Part II
April 12, 2012 Back in the spring of 1983, Jack Kendrick talked me into driving out to Salt Lake City, he to meet the actor Robert Redford and me to start an artist residency at Weber State University in Ogden, U. more »»
MARTHA SEZ: Going back to one’s roots
April 12, 2012 Tracing family ancestry is all the rage these days. Back when my grandmothers were charting out their family trees, genealogy was slow and tedious work. more »»
WORLD FOCUS: The world of a poet laureate
April 12, 2012 “Poetry gets at the very marrow of language. more »» 
ON THE SCENE: The road to Redford
April 12, 2012 My first experience behind the wheel was when I popped the clutch on my father’s 1964 Pontiac GTO that featured a 389 cu. more »»
MARTHA SEZ: As the crow flies, and more
April 12, 2012 I was watching a crow yesterday, marveling at the beauty and grace of its movement as it rode the wind. more »»
WORLD FOCUS: Taken for a ride
April 12, 2012 Is the United States in its trade relationship with various foreign countries around the world taken for a ride? That’s one stark question that was discussed at the symposium organized and hosted b... more »»
MARTHA SEZ: Warm weather and the luck of the Irish
March 20, 2012 It’s an early spring in the North Country! Right? Birds are trilling their lyrical mating songs. more »» 
ON THE SCENE: When things go ‘Boom’
March 20, 2012 My brother Gerret, aka G, was a one-person science fair. As a kid he had an Erector Set, a Gilbert Chemistry Set as well as a microscope and a telescope, also made by A.C. Gilbert. more »»
WORLD FOCUS: Ombudsman
March 20, 2012 Why would an educator with a mile-long credentials and awards in the field of education and communication/mediation agree to become Senior Assistant Ombudsman at the U. S. more »» 
ON THE SCENE: Philosophying on Porter
March 20, 2012 The spirit of the 19th century Philosopher’s Camp on Follensby Pond was alive and well in Keene this past weekend under the auspices and hospitality of Fred Cook. more »»
MARTHA SEZ: It’s beginning to look a lot like ...?
March 20, 2012 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I just finished shoveling the snow off the driveway. more »»
WORLD FOCUS: Waiting for Chaplin
March 20, 2012 Recently released documents by the British spy agency M15 contained an extensive file on Charles Chaplin, considered to have been one of the greatest screen legends of all time. more »» 
ON THE SCENE: They love coming here ... and enjoy the bobsled and skeleton event
March 16, 2012 “They love coming here,” said John Morgan about the bobsled teams attending the FIBT Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid. “The whole town permeates bobsledding. more »» |
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