Music & More at Chautauqua
Flutist Jim Walker was the first of three outstanding professional musicians I encountered this year at Chautauqua. He is an old friend …
Heavenly Concerns at Chautauqua
In the 1950s, my girlfriends and I liked to sleep out in our backyards and watch the stars in the inky black …
Hamilton on Broadway
Reading Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton led me to Hamilton: the Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, a book that supplies an annotated score …
50 Years with Steve
We were just twenty-two, but somehow we knew/Life would be terrific, if we said “I do.” With Texas backgrounds, we sought East …
Alexander Hamilton
As soon as I “met” Alexander Hamilton as a statue while Celebrating Independence in Philadelphia, I began reading Alexander Hamilton, the 2005 biography by Ron …
Celebrating Independence
As the the Summer Solstice coincided with a full moon for the first time in 49 years, my daughter, grandsons and I …