Painter Gregory Stone seeks to turn bad news into beauty
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A few days after tornadoes hit Springfield June 1, 2011, painter Gregory Stone drove to the west bank of the Connecticut River to find the place a water spout had been captured on video. Stone saw mangled guardrails. They told him he was standing where spinning winds that seemed to toy with the river came ashore, packing destruction. In his …
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A student-led production of “Fahrenheit 451” based on Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel, opens Thursday at 7 p.m. at Northampton High School’s Black Box Theater. The show is directed by NHS senior Ian McKenna-Donnelly, produced by senior Eliana Zimmerman and features live original music. Sophomores Connor Paradis and Eliza Moss-Horwitz play the leads, …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Stan Sherer enjoys taking an occasional landscape photo, but that’s mainly as a reminder of a scene he’s enjoyed. It’s difficult at best, he says, to capture the expansive beauty of the outdoors. “I’m always thinking, ‘Do I really need to photograph this?’ ” he says. What Sherer, of Northampton, really likes to …