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Poetry: Mirror Mirror

February 25, 2023 by Neil Shaw 2 Comments

Mirror Mirror

Looking in the mirror, the mirror in your mind,
Wanting to see a reflection, yet afraid of what you might find,
Looking backwards doesn’t help, look forward but you can’t tell,
Perhaps a glimpse of Heaven or the burning fires of Hell.

Life is like a journey, a trek on down the road,
The pleasure and the pain vary, depending upon the load,
You wonder whether you cause it, or if it just happens that way,
Whether it really makes a difference, if you do or do not pray.

It would be nice to take a corner in the back part of your mind,
Build a room without any lights, for those things you don’t want to find,
The bad stuff in your life that you never wanted to be,
So there’ll be no more remorse, or sorrow, again, to see.

Read More Poems From the New York Almanack HERE.

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: art. poetry

The Strange Life & Death of Edgar Allan Poe

February 24, 2023 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

Edgar Allan Poe’s death in 1849 has been surrounded in enigmas, which seems apt for the writer who originated the mystery and horror genres.

Discovered half-conscious in the streets of Baltimore (when he was supposed to be in Philadelphia), wearing another man’s clothes and supposedly calling out for someone who has never been identified, Poe was to end his life with friends offering wildly conflicting accounts of what had happened, and enemies publishing relentless smears of him.

[Read more…] about The Strange Life & Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Filed Under: Arts, History Tagged With: Edgar Alan Poe, Literature, Podcasts, Poetry, Writing

Champlain Valley Film Series Marking 20 Years

February 22, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The FabelmansThe Champlain Valley Film Series will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Saturday, March 4th at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall in Essex, NY with a free showing of The Fabelmans, nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.

[Read more…] about Champlain Valley Film Series Marking 20 Years

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Events Tagged With: Whallonsburg Grange Hall

Woodstock Art Colony Kids

February 21, 2023 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Barbara Carlson at Woodstockk Library Fair c. 1953The Historical Society of Woodstock will host “Woodstock Art Colony Kids: with Barbara Carlson, Sarah Mecklem and Meed Wetterau Barnett,” a virtual program set for Tuesday, February 28th. [Read more…] about Woodstock Art Colony Kids

Filed Under: Arts, Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Historical Society of Woodstock

PAFF! Becomes the International Museum of Comic Art

February 19, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

International Museum of Comic ArtPAFF! (Palazzo Arti Fumetto Friuli) in Italy has announced it is becoming the International Museum of Comic Art. This innovative cultural hub based in Pordenone organizes, promotes and hosts national and international temporary exhibitions featuring the great masters of comic art from around the globe. [Read more…] about PAFF! Becomes the International Museum of Comic Art

Filed Under: Arts, History Tagged With: Art History, Material Culture, Museums, Writing

On the Road and in the Mountains, 1956

February 18, 2023 by Edward Zahniser Leave a Comment

On the Road and in the Mountains, 1956

With three more leaves in your notebook, you
are not off the hook. They make six more pages,
not enough for the Iliad, of course. You can relax—
but only on the hook still—your own Iliad—so
get writing, okay? You could reminisce about
your family-of-origin’s odyssey car-camping
with a first camp on the Sacandaga River, then
across the U.S. and even up into Canada (!956),
driven, so to speak, by your father’s contract
with Knopf to write the book he never would
about family car-camping between wilderness
trips, one trip even up into Canada by canoes
with the intrepid Ernest Oberholtzer and
helped by Native American Jimmy Banks. [Read more…] about On the Road and in the Mountains, 1956

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: Poetry

‘Fact or Fiction’ Storytelling Game Set For Saranac Lake

February 17, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Fact or FictionThe Adirondack Center for Writing will debut a new event called “Fact or Fiction?” a live storytelling game where six performers will take the stage in turn to share short, entertaining tales at The Garagery in Saranac Lake on Friday, February 24th. [Read more…] about ‘Fact or Fiction’ Storytelling Game Set For Saranac Lake

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Events Tagged With: Adirondack Center for Writing

Adirondack Non-Winter Poem

February 11, 2023 by Edward Zahniser 3 Comments

Adirondack Non-Winter Poem

I admit to never having witnessed winter
in the Adirondacks. My major excuses are
how we mid-southerly flatlanders don’t
know how to drive in deep snow—the
drive from our otherwise year-round
Maryland home is a solid 10-hour trip
even in favorable summer conditions.

Not to mention how our four-room cabin
has zero, zip, zilch insulation. And our sole
heat source is a stone fireplace, that might
well supply more unwanted heat to global
warming than to fuel our cabin’s comfort.

Besides which, I have zero levitation skills
and no useful experience on snowshoes,
which, I am told are necessary in winter—
not to mention skis, which have frankly
only ever managed to stir up fright in me,
especially now with my new artificial joints.

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: art, Poetry

When Mommy Was a Commie

February 10, 2023 by Bob Cudmore 1 Comment

This week on The Historians Podcast, When Mommy Was a Commie (Troy Book Makers, 2022) is a comic historical novel set in Schenectady in the early 1950s, inspired by real-life episodes from America’s spy war with Russia. Author Jon Sorensen was a newspaper reporter for The Schenectady Gazette, Buffalo News and New York Daily News. [Read more…] about When Mommy Was a Commie

Filed Under: Arts, Books, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Cold War, General Electric, Labor History, Podcasts, Political History, Schenectady, Schenectady County

Women Reframe American Landscape: A New Exhibit

February 9, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Women Reframe American LandscapeThe Thomas Cole National Historic Site is planning “Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle / Contemporary Practices,” a new exhibition on display from May 6th through October 29th. The two-part exhibition and accompanying publication illuminate the artistic contributions and perspectives of women. [Read more…] about Women Reframe American Landscape: A New Exhibit

Filed Under: Arts, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New Exhibits Tagged With: Thomas Cole National Historic Site

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