The Heavenly Choir Gets Syncopated
Because tonight they will Sing Along With Mitch. Mitch Miller has died at the age of 99 after an illustrious and melodic career. Although Kerouac was only about an hour up 95 in Lowell, Mitch Miller was as beat as a suburban Rhode Island kid would ever see on her black and white TV. We [...]
Local Tomatoes at Pawtuxet Village Farmer’s Market
From Steve Stycos: TOMATOES Tomato season is beginning at the Pawtuxet Village Farmers. Real tomatoes are an unmatched summer treat, whether cooked or fresh. In recent years, supermarkets have presented vine ripened tomatoes year round. A March New York Times article detailed how they are grown. Quaint sounding Backyard Farms in Maine grows its tomatoes [...]
Book Sale at Pawtuxet Farmer’s Market This Saturday
From Steve Stycos: FARM & RIVER DAY Saturday, the Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market will hold it spring book sale Saturday to benefit the education fund of Bob and Alan Fratantuono, the sons of the late Peter Fratantuono of Moosup River Farm. Peter, a graduate of Cranston High School West, was the first farmer to attend [...]
Steve Stycos on Markets, Land Deals, and Happenings in Cranston
School Committee member Steve Stycos provided the following update through his e-newsletter: MARKET GROWS Alan and Bob Fratantuono of Moosup River Farm attended the market last week, selling asparagus and Ingrid Fratantuono’s preserves. Other vendors, including Warwick beekeeper Bernie Bieder, will join the market during the next month. Last week, Richard Duquette, who in past [...]
Wedding Entrance Dance Remix
As my sister Laura says, “This is so joyful — I had to share!”
Ascension Receives $11,000 Grant for Children’s Music Program
In the good news department, Church of the Ascension (interview with Rector of Ascension Greg Lisby) in Cranston will be receiving $11,000 from the Episcopal Diocese to start a children’s music program. This is wonderful news. Speaking personally, it has been a tremendous joy to watch my older daughter develop her musical skills as a [...]
Koko Taylor has Passed
A tribute to blues goddess Koko Taylor here. She sang at the Last Call in Providence about twenty years ago and shook the walls with ‘Wang Dang Doodle’. Miss you, Koko.
Peace Train Stops Here
Danny and Carol were the life-drawing models. They are still my image of glorious hippy cool, and I hope they have fruitful and creative lives.
E-News from Church of the Ascension
I started an interview with the pastor of my church, Fr. Greg Lisby, and then, in the midst of the interview, his laptop (with all his labor-intensive answers to my questions, as well as many of his sermons and many other precious things) was stolen. So we are in the process of re-interviewing. I drove [...]
New Morning
This is a song I’m hoping to sing at my church, Church of the Ascension, once we get past Lent and into Easter season. The song “New Morning” was written by Bob Dylan and is performed below by Elizabeth Mitchell and Lisa Loeb. It has a beautiful simplicity to it — a sense of coming [...]
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