I am so sorry to lose Pat Smith. She was the voice of the Reformer for me, and always helpful.
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...
Archer Mayor titled his latest Joe Gunther novel, Bomber's Moon, as almost a warning: Be careful what you wish for. The phrase “bomber's moon” originated during World War II and referred to the full moon, which made night-targeting during air raids easier for pilots, the Newfane-based mystery author told a rapt audience that filled Bartleby's Books on Oct. 12. But, Mayor cautioned, the moonlight was a mixed blessing. If the bombers could see targets better, then so, too, could the...
I have listened with great interest to the rhetoric concerning the removal of Confederate monuments and the demonstrations about such actions. The problem is that all this just does not go far enough. We must not just destroy in order to save, we must address the hearts and minds of the Philistines. We are ignoring the greatest danger of all, especially to our children: books and, to some extent, film. Take Gone with the Wind as an example of a...
The newly-formed Rock River Players present Thornton Wilder's Our Town Aug. 27-30 at Williamsville Hall. In its review of the 1938 opening on Broadway, The New York Times hailed Our Town as “hauntingly beautiful,” endowed with “immortal truth” with its understated, but resonant depiction of a quest we all share - to find love and fulfillment, and to appreciate life's abundance and minutiae. In writing the Pultizer Prize-winning Our Town, Wilder joined others, such as Robert Frost, who searched for...
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