Readuponit: Travel and Voracious Reading By Max Hartshorne Jason Schrieber has been analyzing data, traffic patterns and pedestrian crossings in the village of South Deerfield for the past few months. Thursday night he made a presentation to a group of townspeople showing off an impressive plan that his firm, Nelson Nygaard, has put together that would make our town safer for walkers and much more bike friendly. The Safe Streets project began in November with a townwide meeting called a charrette, bringing as many voices together
Readuponit: Travel and Voracious Reading By Max Hartshorne This Friday in Turners Falls, there will be workshops, presentations and a big gathering designed to show people how arts can help a community do well, even with a broken bridge and lots of other problems. It's the fourth annual Creative Economy Summit, and I will be joining 30 other presenters doing workshops designed to educate and inspire. There will be speakers from nearby communities, like Bellows Falls, where a mural project began a renaissance in this
Walking the beat By Ellie Cook Springtime tease It’s New England’s springtime tease: one step forward, two steps back. Or you can see it as March’s lamb-lion antagonists. A warm, lovely day has us out on the street in shirtsleeves. Then it’s freezing cold, everyone bundled against wind chill. Yes, it’s been cold for a couple of days, and snow is forecast, but when the sun deigns to shine, it warms you. Whatever snow we get won’t last long. The birds like the light and keep
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Readuponit: Travel and Voracious Reading By Max Hartshorne I can't wait to see singer, songwriter, bandleader, and former Turners Falls resident Heather Maloney at the Shea Theater this Saturday night, March 16. Combined with dinner at the Voo, with great friends, it should be a really fun night. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are still avalable at the door. Heather is celebrating her new CD, her third, at this, her biggest concert ever. A musician friend told me that she's some singer - not
Readuponit: Travel and Voracious Reading By Max Hartshorne At the Mount Baker Distillery in Bellingham, Wash., owner Troy Smith prides himself in making moonshine the way their great great grandpa Abe did. So they use his visage in all of their packaging, while they hand distill small batches of his recipe Moonshine plus gin and vodka. It's a family operation with everyone including the kids helping out. They start with cracked corn, in bags like you see with backyard chicken farmers. Then through various tubes,
Readuponit: Travel and Voracious Reading By Max Hartshorne Robyn Hanson was the perfect choice to show me this city. Known on Twitter as BCRobyn, she's been a TripAdvisor destination guide and has been a booster/fan and a lover of all things Vancouver her whole life. I got a chance to see the city through her eyes Wednesday night as we sipped beers at the Yaletown Brewing Co. It's across from where she works in the Yaletown neighborhood, which is made up of converted warehouses and
Readuponit: Travel and Voracious Reading By Max Hartshorne There are some key ingredients that make a great town or city. Right up there on the list is having a top-notch bookstore. Village Books, in Bellingham’s Fairhaven neighborhood, is an institution that’s made this enclave of century-old brick buildings a better place since 1980. Many of the store’s employees have 10 or 15 years of service, two have been there 25 years. The three-story temple to reading cultivates the arts and its owners love of reading
Readuponit: Travel and Voracious Reading By Max Hartshorne Taimi Dunn Gorman met us in the ground-floor lobby of the Victorian-era Sycamore Square building in Fairhaven, a glass of wine beside her and a glowing device on the table. The TV-remote sized machine picks up waves that ghosts make, and she has used it during her research into ghosts in the 1880s-era buildings of this restored downtown section of Belllingham. Her book "Haunted Fairhaven" has sold well and she wanted to share some of the spirits
Readuponit: Travel and Voracious Reading By Max Hartshorne When I missed the connection to my shuttle from Seattle Tacoma airport up to Bellingham, Wash., today, I had a chance to sit for a while in a small bar called the Pilot House. At the bar, the first thing I asked for was a Seattle beer - nope, don't have it. Then I asked for a Washington state beer - nope. I settled for an Alaskan red, and here I sit, 90 minutes to kill and
Readuponit: Travel and Voracious Reading By Max Hartshorne I am about to break one of my own rules. I usually try very hard to have the last trip's story up and done before I embark on another. But early Saturday, I'll fly out to Seattle and then begin a trip to Bellingham and to Vancouver, British Columbia. I won't have time to write all about Colombia before I leave, so I'll be juggling two places in my head for a while after I get back.
