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After 30 years as a New Yorker, poet David Groff has discovered that being in residence at the Anderson Center awakens him to a different world. "It makes me feel that I'm actually a nature poet," he said. Instead of familiar asphalt, he finds himself writing poems about red squirrels. Groff,...

I've always had a weakness for ongoing fictions that grow with the years. When I was a kid I liked "Gasoline Alley" because Skeezix grew up and his father got fat. Recently I've been watching reruns of the entire Walton's dramatic series. Normally, when a TV cast member died, the...

Back in the 1920s and 1930s, when most black women worked as domestics, scrub ladies and washerwomen, one young black woman born in 1895 in Washington, D.C. would spend her life on the world political and cultural stage. It wasn't all beer and skittles, however, when her lawyer father...

Summer will soon be upon us.

Seventy-seven year-old Richard Reese never imagined he would be doing much traveling with his band. That was until recently. He along with bandmates Tom Rynders and Guy Williams of the group the Bald Eagles, returned two weeks ago from a tour that may just be the wildest trip of...

The Howlin' Brothers are a Nashville-based band that likes to keep one foot in tradition -- and use the other to kick it right out the door. Incorporating bluegrass rhythms into their music, these Ithaca College graduates say their music is better described as Americana. Perhaps...