Your ticket to the holiday season

Your ticket to the holiday season

THROUGH DEC. 18 Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ Adapted by Jill Pinard, in this original adaptation of the holiday classic, Hatbox Theatre focuses on how the dream-like qualities of the ghost story aspect of Dickens’ work can bring about redemption. Is it “an undigested...
Excerpt: My Antonio and the Stitch that Binds

Excerpt: My Antonio and the Stitch that Binds

Essays in ‘Time for Everything’ by Joseph Steinfield bring readers on a personal tour of history and connection Time for Everything picks up where Joseph Steinfield’s first book, Claremont Boy, left off, with tributes to friends and heroes and essays on being Jewish,...
Tranquil & transcendent

Tranquil & transcendent

Boscawen retreat celebrates 10th anniversary with season that runs from May 22 to Sept. 17 On a recent morning in late April, the grounds of Avaloch Farm Music Institute were quiet, the only sounds coming from songbirds in the surrounding sunlit meadows and a cleaning...
Poetry: The Daffodil

Poetry: The Daffodil

I wish I could be as strong as the daffodil.   This herald of spring never permits winter’s   dangerous plan to scar her heart,   nor does she hold winter against itself.   She accepts its nature, while I sulk like   Schopenhauer when a friend...