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The Laprade's game is kept in a box covered with pictures of their family that ran in the local papers.

Custom trivia game reveals generations of lore

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Some families track their history through genealogy books, photo albums and websites. Others consult diaries or boxes of keepsakes. For the Laprade family, it’s a trivia game. Their own. For the last decade, the family has spent countless hours around the dining room table or in living rooms playing a very personal version of Trivial Pursuit in the form of … 0

Diane Raucher Miller, left, Madeline Caires, Isabella Charette and Ava Smith. KEVIN GUTTING

Your Time: Heritage Farm, Easthampton

Friday, May 17, 2013

Photos and text by Kevin Gutting On any given day at the Raucher family’s Heritage Farm in Easthampton, you might find Diane Raucher Miller in the indoor arena beginning a group riding lesson for elementary school-age kids, or brother Douglas Raucher in one of the outdoor rings tutoring an adult in a private … 0

Julia Mintz at her home in Northampton.

Art People: Julia Mintz | filmmaker

Friday, May 17, 2013

As she talks about Joseph Papp, the famed producer and director who pushed the boundaries of theater and changed its history, Julia Mintz lightly touches hand to heart. “I love everything about Joe Papp,” says Mintz, a Northampton filmmaker who co-produced a documentary about the man who brought Shakespeare to Central Park, broke … 0

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Samantha Manitsas of Belchertown pitches to South Hadley Monday at Beech Grounds in South Hadley. JERREY ROBERTS Samantha Manitsas leads Belchertown comeback
From left, Alyssa Kuhn, 13, left, Bobby Peterson, 14, Sam Rilpelle, 13, Ashlyn Finnessey, 13, Tess McNamara, 12, Taylor Perrault, 13 and Katie Cole, 13, all students with JFK Middle School chorus teacher Steve Hinks,, sing while washing cars Sunday on King Street in Northampton to raise money for the chorus scholarship fund. SARAH CROSBY A little help from my friends
Father Bill Hamilton is sworn in as police department chaplain Wednesday at the Easthampton Public Safety Complex. SARAH CROSBY Rev. William Hamilton first Easthampton police chaplain
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Editorial: Northampton floats flexible zoning
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Katharine Gratwick Baker & Peter Titleman: Forging Palestinian friendships - On the work of Mohammed Sawalha
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Art People: Julia Mintz | filmmaker
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Tuned in
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Tuned in

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Northampton writer/musician Ella Longpre celebrates the release of her first-ever chapbook, “The Odor of the Hoax Was Gone,” with a show at Flying Object in Hadley Thursday at 8 p.m. Longpre can quiet a bustling room with her … 0

Book Bag

Thursday, May 16, 2013

NIGHT WITH ITS OWL By Anne Love Woodhull Levellers Press/Hedgerow Books Anne Love Woodhull, an Amherst art therapist and teacher who works with children and adults, has written three children’s books. She also published a poetry chapbook in … 0

Valley Readings

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The following author appearances, readings and book events are planned for the coming week in the Valley: A.P.E. GALLERY: Anne Love Woodhull will read from her new book of poetry, “Night With Its Owl,” at a book launch today, 7:30 p.m. at the gallery, 126 Main St., Northampton. … 0

Heidi Haas KEVIN GUTTING

ID: Heidi Beth Haas

Friday, May 17, 2013

Heidi Beth Haas and her husband have lived in the Pioneer Valley for 26 years. She’s a clinical social worker in private practice and also teaches theater improvisation to children and teens at the Florence Civic Center, coaches … 0

Smith College senior Carissa Dagenais. KEVIN GUTTING

Style Stop: Carissa Dagenais

Friday, May 17, 2013

Carissa Dagenais of Chicopee had two toddlers in tow when the Style Stop team noticed her in downtown Northampton. Dagenais will graduate from Smith College this weekend, and is a baby-sitter and an actor with Paintbox Theatre in … 0

When a rain storm last week created some "fairy tale" clouds, I headed to Paradise Pond at Smith College where I found this scene, shot from a dock behind the boat house.JERREY ROBERTS

Photo gallery: Cloud illusions

Friday, May 17, 2013

When a rainstorm last week created “fairy-tale” clouds, I headed to Paradise Pond at Smith College where I found this scene, shot from a dock behind the boathouse. — Jerrey Roberts … 0

Big four cellphone carriers unite on anti-texting ads

Friday, May 17, 2013

The country’s four biggest cellphone companies are set to launch their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving, uniting behind AT&T’s “It Can Wait” slogan to blanket TV and radio this summer. AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile will be joined by 200 other organizations backing the … 0

Sepculoos is a Belgian cookie paste that can be used in a variety of dishes including pancakes. (MCT)

The spread of speculoos: Spicy cookie paste from Belgium gains a following

Friday, May 17, 2013

After its creation was announced via nationwide broadcast, people lined up to buy the very first versions. It’s lightweight, has been the subject of fierce patent battles and is so addictive you can’t put it down, even when … 0

FILE - This undated photo shows author Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is back on the big-screen with Leonardo DiCaprio and director Baz Luhrmann's “The Great Gatsby,” a story adapted for film and television more than half a dozen times since the silent-movie era, when it was published to scant sales in 1925. (AP Photo, File)

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood ending followed sad death

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Has-beens in Hollywood usually stay that way. Yet one writer who died there nearly forgotten 73 years ago had one of the most remarkable posthumous revivals in literary history. F. Scott Fitzgerald is back on the big-screen with … 0

Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby" AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures

Movie Capsules

Thursday, May 16, 2013

42: The life story of Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford). Also stars Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, and T.R. Knight. Rated PG-13. … 0

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