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Thursday, May 23, 2013

ANOTHER LANGUAGE: PORTRAITS OF ASSISTANCE DOGS AND THEIR PEOPLE By Jeanne Braham Photos by Robert Floyd Bauhan Publishing Sunderland author Jeanne Braham, who has written about poets and a small-town’s response to the AIDS epidemic, offers a different kind of portrait in “Another Language.” The subject here is the often-remarkable bonds that develop between service dogs and the people the dogs are trained to assist, as well as the trainers of the animals. In lengthy profiles done in a basic Q&A format, Braham interviews a range of people — injured combat veterans, dog trainers and breeders, men and women in wheelchairs — who work with … 0

Writer Bruce Watson's ebook is displayed on an iPad Friday in his Leverett home.

SARAH CROSBY

Art People: Bruce Watson | satirist

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Leverett writer Bruce Watson takes satire seriously. So much so, that when digital publisher New Word City offered him the opportunity last year to write a biography on anyone of his choice, Watson picked one of today’s most popular satirists, Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” The result: Watson’s ebook, … 0

ID: Jim Gipe

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Jim Gipe is a freelance photographer and digital imaging consultant based in Florence. His photographic career has taken him from the newsroom of a metro daily to the wheat fields of Montana to the doorsteps of dignitaries. In 1999, he founded Pivot Media, a specialized imaging company focused on the digitization of picture … 0

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