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The Agony of Frozen Cats

The Agony of Frozen Cats

Gabrielle Attra left a home, a cat, and a relationship. She’s worried about her cat and also whether to begin anew in the depths of winter.

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A morning with Malcolm

This past Saturday I invited the celebrated composer Malcolm Brooks and one of his colleagues, Will Foote, to teach seven of us the process of writing a song.  Malcolm’s non-profit organization, Documentary Songwriters – Bearing Witness Through Music, helps...

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Only an Apprentice?

Only an Apprentice?

Only? Allow me to introduce, Lance Lee, well- known in nautical circles in Rockland and the world, and who is now in the 3rd and last phase of a 60-year career in developing experiential education.
He lives and works in a little house encroaching South Main, and many of us remember it as Peggy’s Kitchen. If you walk into the front door you first see a remarkable wooden Rushton guide-boat on the right extending through the house, and along that way are book chapters stacked here and there on the floor. A stairway climbs to a living room with comfortable chairs and an expansive view of Rockland harbor.

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