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April 16, 2013 12:18 PM UTC --
The first time I stepped foot on the streets of Boston, I felt I had found my place, my city. That was in September of 1963. I was a teenager, starting my freshman year at Boston University with the . . .
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March 22, 2013 04:56 PM UTC --
It was a trip faced with a mix of trepidation and sadness. I managed to get a cheap flight out of Burlington through Reagan National and on to Sarasota in part because the Burlington flight left at . . .
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March 22, 2013 02:16 PM UTC --
from my journal, originally written May 12th, 1986 - Now being reworked as part of my memoir-in-progress
As the Dean of Admissions, I had to attend the graduation, especially since I had been the . . .
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October 22, 2012 07:38 PM UTC --
By Alisa Lebow
Volume 22 in the Visible Evidence Series
Edited by Michael Renov, Faye Ginsburg and Jane Gaines
Reviewed For Documentary Magazine by Cynthia Close
At 203 pages, . . .
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October 17, 2012 12:16 PM UTC --
Docs on Disc
Meet ‘Middletown’
Ordinary Americans at Extraordinary Moments
DVD Review by Cynthia Close
The artifice of filmmaking all but disappears in Middletown . . .
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October 12, 2012 04:28 PM UTC --
BOOK REVIEW:
Shaking the Money Tree: The Art of Getting Grants and Donations for Film and Video Projects, 3rd edition
by Morrie Warshawski
Michael Wiese Productions 2010 . . .
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August 27, 2012 10:06 PM UTC --
“ I am so scared”. The voice is quivering and has the high pitch of a child. It’s the kind of voice that would emanate from a small, helpless creature, curled up in a corner, afraid . . .
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August 22, 2012 04:28 PM UTC --
When I was about 13 years old I acquired an intense interest in cooking with an emphasis on baking bread and cakes from scratch. There were a number of reasons and in retrospect I think it had a calming . . .
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August 17, 2012 08:58 PM UTC --
When talking to my granddaughters I refer to myself in the third person; “Grandma bought you new school outfits today, or Grandma is coming to visit you next week, or Grandma got tickets to Nutcracker . . .
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July 22, 2012 02:26 PM UTC --
How long has been since I originally posted my response to the last mass murders by a demented, white male? A week, 2 weeks?? Wade Michael Page - one of a growing number of our own, uniquely . . .
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July 20, 2012 11:45 AM UTC --
Yet another rage filled young white guy with a gun killing and maiming "just because"... Based on ALL the evidence, folks should cross to walk on the other side of the street whenever a white, young . . .
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July 13, 2012 03:35 PM UTC --
When I bought my little Vermont carriage house I hadn’t thought much about maintenance of the approximately half acre of mostly grass that surrounded it. Since I had never mowed a lawn before . . .
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July 09, 2012 06:35 PM UTC --
Mom has either taken herself to the hospital, or coerced her neighbors to take her in to the ER, several times this past month. It is hard to get her to be specific beyond the unbearable pain she says . . .
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July 08, 2012 08:47 PM UTC --
The weather was glorious. Ethel and I had just come back from our morning walk by the lake. I scanned the tunnel scared lawn that surrounds the ancient maple tree where I was going to tie Ethel when . . .
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June 27, 2012 10:12 AM UTC --
Getting your license was THE rite of passage at my regional high school in northern New Jersey. We all took Driver Ed. We also had a smoking lounge for students too (would you believe! This was 1962). . . .
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June 23, 2012 12:53 PM UTC --
Critical Need. Donors Wanted. The red and white signs planted along North Ave in front of the Elks Club were hard to ignore, especially since I lived across the street. I couldn’t remember the . . .
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June 16, 2012 12:25 PM UTC --
I once was an artist. At 14 I had discovered Degas and had copied many of his paintings. Goya was mysterious and forbidding. Picasso was an enigma that I was not yet ready to understand. At 17 . . .
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June 12, 2012 04:30 PM UTC --
How long does it take before it’s OK to call yourself a “Vermonter”? I am not from here. Not only that, I had always described myself as a “city girl”, born in Manhattan, . . .
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June 05, 2012 11:14 AM UTC --
Winter seemed to disappear, suddenly. The temperatures rose with such intensity to record breaking heights in March, bringing bikini clad UVM students to North Beach before Parks and Recreation had . . .
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June 02, 2012 08:18 PM UTC --
I’m not sure what type of characteristics make you a “dog person” as opposed to a “cat person” but I am unequivocally the former and not the later. When I returned from . . .
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Cynthia C.
Burlington, Vermont
Loving living in Vermont
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