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Posted on November 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
Sia’s mega hit Chandelier is omnipresent. Her exuberance surrounds us in the gym, on the street, the supermarket and, of course, the dance floor. The other day I was listening to this amazing remix and I had a chandelier epiphany. I got to thinking that Sia has probably never really danced on top of a […]
Posted on September 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (sometimes known simply as “the Choral”), is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the repertoire of classical music. Among critics, it is almost universally considered to be among Beethoven’s greatest works, […]
Posted on September 1, 2014 Leave a Comment
I have some unfinished business and I’m launching a new one. When I left my job about a year ago, I had two goals: 1 – write my first book. 2 – finish the NYC Marathon in under 4 hours. Well, I accomplished one of the goals – I wrote and published Stonewall to Obama. […]
Posted on August 18, 2014 Leave a Comment
For a country lawyer to make it to the US Supreme Court, it takes an amazing legal team – and behind every great man there’s a great woman. The Hon William E. J. Connor was blessed with several great women to support him as he climbed to the highest court in the land. He had […]
Posted on August 17, 2014 Leave a Comment
The story of 345 Allen Street can not be told without mention of a sister building located at 441 East Allen Street. Its the ionic columns that hold the secrets of greatness. Ionic is one of three column styles developed in ancient Greece. More slender and more ornate than the earlier Doric style, an Ionic […]
Posted on August 15, 2014 Leave a Comment
Olana was the 19th century home, studio and designed landscape of Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), his wife Isabel and their four children. The 250 acre historic estate features an elaborately stenciled, Persian-inspired mansion filled with original sketches, studies and paintings by one of the mid-19th century’s most famous artists. A diverse […]
Posted on August 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
“Canadian Chaplain Tells of Heroic End of Malcolm Gifford, Jr. Hudson, Jan. 26, 1918 – It was in the terrific fighting for the possession of Passchendaele in a recent great British offensive that Malcolm Gifford, Jr., of this city, was killed, according to information received here by his father from the Rev. George C. Taylor, […]
Posted on August 12, 2014 Leave a Comment
It was 1979 and it was the spring semester of my sophmore year in high school. At the urging of my father, I’d elected to take Advanced Literature in an effort to raise my SAT scores to get into a top college. Mrs. Miller was the the fiftyish teacher who, at the time, seemed ancient […]
Posted on August 10, 2014 1 Comment
My long lost friend Hebert and I just connected on Facebook. Here’s his chapter from my book Stonewall to Obama. Don’t Leave Me This Way When I returned from Pentwater, it was obvious that the relationship with Charles was over. I couldn’t stay sober and live with a raging alcoholic. I needed to find a […]
Posted on August 9, 2014 Leave a Comment
The ghosts in Claverack seemed much older, almost as if they had been there forever. Just past the Marilyn house there was a street by the Claverack Creek called Spook Rock Road. Spook Rock was one of Dad’s favorite spots to swim. One day when we were swimming he told us the legend of Spook […]
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