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  • 1945

    Krieg und Grieg

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jun 11th, 2015

    The war is over. Time to stop the music.

  • Dylan Patrick

    Five-Year-Old at Lighthouse Beach

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jun 11th, 2015

    A five-year-old is curious about the shed next to the Lighthouse in Annisquam.

  • The Mount

    Booklaunch at Edith Wharton's Berkshire Home

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 10th, 2015

    On a perfect June evening a booklaunch, my first, on the terrace of Edith Wharton's The Mount in Lenox. Witty exchanges with director Susan Wissler. Reading Gonzo poems from Shards of Life. Elegant gathering with Berkshire friends and neighbors, artists, writers and citizens of the world. Superb food and fine wine. Guests exploring the formal gardens. Signed a ton of books.

  • Putting the Nose on the Ankh-Haf

    Restoration Was Not Appreciated

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 10th, 2015

    For two and a half years I worked in the basement of the Egyptian Department of the Museum of Fine Arts. But truly I was the servant of the Pharaohs and the spirituality of their sublime vision of an after life. Part of that was repairing damage and making them whole. Like fixing the broken nose of the Ankh- Haf.

  • Backward Buildings

    A Tenant In My Home

    By: Loretta Fancoeur - Jun 10th, 2015

    Welcoming the Berkshire poet Loretta Fancoeur. What happens when a tenant become an intruder and a house is not your home.

  • John Cage

    The Art of Silence

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 05th, 2015

    When avant-garde master John Cage was in Boston mking edible paper I photographed and interviewed him for Art News. Starting each semester of my avant-garde seminar at Boston University I showed a video on Cage that included his signature 4' 33." It outraged the students who proved to be remarkbly conservative. That only made me love Cage all the more.

  • Not Publisher's Clearing House

    Don't Miss Out On the Fun

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 03rd, 2015

    Join other satisfied customers and order the book that everyone is talking about. These are real pictures of a real person who is just thrilled by Charles Giuliano's Shards of Life.

  • Father's Day

    Skills Not Passed On

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 03rd, 2015

    Lots of guys help their dads with handyman chores around the house. It's useful when you get married and have your own home. My Dad wanted to teach me how to be a surgeon. That didn't go well.

  • Hurlers

    Swimming at Lane's Cove

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jun 02nd, 2015

    Summer splashing at Lane's Cove with the kids.

  • XVIII LUKE & JODY

    No Smoking in Her Fo'c'stle

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jun 02nd, 2015

    H.R.G. to R.J.D.H. "very precise to the quarter it comes from" Chas. Olson

  • NAM NHIEP

    Semper Fi

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jun 02nd, 2015

    He saw loons in Laos.

  • CANNY'S PIT

    Iced Over in Winter

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jun 02nd, 2015

    The duck stuck by her beak in the ice.

  • Duck

    Trying Something New on Chinese Mondays

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 02nd, 2015

    For months I debated trying the duck. Last night during weekly Chinese Monday several friends tried different dishes. It reminded of the birthday ducks Jane cooked for fellow Scorpios.

  • Shark by the Lighthouse!

    It's a Sunfish

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 02nd, 2015

    On the 40th anniversary of Jaws. Panic about fins in the water off the Lighthouse.

  • How It Is

    Hauling Lobsters

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jun 02nd, 2015

    knot the line open traps take the lobsters claws together big enough so they dont/cant reach back to bite your wrist

  • Y Not Gourmet

    Frugal Franny

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 02nd, 2015

    On sale at Big Y paid three bucks for a five pound chicken. Got three or four meals out of it. Living well, on the cheap, is the best revenge.

  • Mind reposing on a love of Fords

    Car Talk

    By: Geoffrey Movius - Jun 01st, 2015

    From Annisquam we have a poem by Geoffrey Movius. He recalls growing up with trusty Fords.

  • First Novel

    A Tale of Two Cities

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 01st, 2015

    I grew up loving Westerns from Tom Mix to Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger. Just before Chrustmas I started my first novel about two crusty stagecoach drivers I dubbed Rawhind and Jake.

  • Sandwich

    PB&J With a Twist

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 01st, 2015

    During the idle days of summer my older sister Josephine was clever at coming up with pranks on the mean maids who presided over us. Mom and day worked during the week. It was funny until her prank turned on me.

  • Wild Party

    Smiles of a Summer Night

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jun 01st, 2015

    Growing up as an outsider in Annisquam I wasn't invited to a neighbor's party. Instead of getting mad I got even with a much bigger one. It got me into huge trouble.

  • Kirkland Road 1939-1989

    Streets Addresses and People from Cambidge to Annisquam

    By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - May 31st, 2015

    Over the transom and out of the blue an intriguing work in progress. With a note "Geoff Movius suggested I send this, which is unfinished, saying we three are all in this cohort together and aré what Chas Olson referred to as "mestizos" or one sort or another I am wild about Olson. R U? Will be reading your poems shortly, sent and linked by Geoff with whom have enjoyed poetry and emails for several months now, can't remember how that started..I think in facebook. I remember UFFERSCHENKE! Delighted then that you named her that and painted her black,hippie before our time."

  • Alice's Breast Flaunt

    You Can Get Anything You Want

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 30th, 2015

    Alice, she of Arlo Guthrie's restaurant fame, wrote and asked if she is in my book. Now she is. Next one. Last summer she cooked up a storm at Dreamaway Lodge revisiting the Berkshires.

  • Movietone News

    Scrapbook of War Memories

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 30th, 2015

    Today how I wish I had that scrapbook of clipping from Life Magazine I kept during WWII. The world in turmoil was seen through movies, comic books safe at home while uncles fought fascism. Growing up in bombed out Hamburg the memories of Astrid are more horrific than mine.

  • Not Plain Jane

    Making Book

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 30th, 2015

    Jeff and Jane operate Hudson' Antiques in Mass MoCA. A few years ago they moved into a loft down the hall from us. They flipped it and move to Billtown, Jane and I go way back. Covered a lot of turf together over the years.

  • Touch of the Poet

    Smashed up Stephen Rifkin

    By: Charles Giuliano - May 29th, 2015

    Over the past year of intensively writing poetry in a now published first book there has been a constant dialogue with my poet friend Stephen Rifkin. He held court in a wheel chair during an opening with his artist wife Wilma last night at Gallery 51 in North Adams. We practiced the secret handshake.

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