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Dylan Patrick
Five-Year-Old at Lighthouse Beach
By: - Jun 11th, 2015A five-year-old is curious about the shed next to the Lighthouse in Annisquam.
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The Mount
Booklaunch at Edith Wharton's Berkshire Home
By: - Jun 10th, 2015On 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.
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Putting the Nose on the Ankh-Haf
Restoration Was Not Appreciated
By: - Jun 10th, 2015For 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.
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Backward Buildings
A Tenant In My Home
By: - Jun 10th, 2015Welcoming the Berkshire poet Loretta Fancoeur. What happens when a tenant become an intruder and a house is not your home.
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John Cage
The Art of Silence
By: - Jun 05th, 2015When 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.
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Not Publisher's Clearing House
Don't Miss Out On the Fun
By: - Jun 03rd, 2015Join 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.
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Father's Day
Skills Not Passed On
By: - Jun 03rd, 2015Lots 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.
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Hurlers
Swimming at Lane's Cove
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015Summer splashing at Lane's Cove with the kids.
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XVIII LUKE & JODY
No Smoking in Her Fo'c'stle
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015H.R.G. to R.J.D.H. "very precise to the quarter it comes from" Chas. Olson
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NAM NHIEP
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CANNY'S PIT
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Duck
Trying Something New on Chinese Mondays
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015For 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.
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Shark by the Lighthouse!
It's a Sunfish
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015On the 40th anniversary of Jaws. Panic about fins in the water off the Lighthouse.
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How It Is
Hauling Lobsters
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015knot the line open traps take the lobsters claws together big enough so they dont/cant reach back to bite your wrist
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Y Not Gourmet
Frugal Franny
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015On 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.
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Mind reposing on a love of Fords
Car Talk
By: - Jun 01st, 2015From Annisquam we have a poem by Geoffrey Movius. He recalls growing up with trusty Fords.
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First Novel
A Tale of Two Cities
By: - Jun 01st, 2015I 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.
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Sandwich
PB&J With a Twist
By: - Jun 01st, 2015During 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.
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Wild Party
Smiles of a Summer Night
By: - Jun 01st, 2015Growing 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.
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Kirkland Road 1939-1989
Streets Addresses and People from Cambidge to Annisquam
By: - May 31st, 2015Over 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."
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Alice's Breast Flaunt
You Can Get Anything You Want
By: - May 30th, 2015Alice, 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.
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Movietone News
Scrapbook of War Memories
By: - May 30th, 2015Today 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.
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Not Plain Jane
Making Book
By: - May 30th, 2015Jeff 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.
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Touch of the Poet
Smashed up Stephen Rifkin
By: - May 29th, 2015Over 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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