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Sara Weinberger: Let’s both grieve and affirm life on Memorial Day

Sunday, May 19, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — Ordinarily, the streets of Tel Aviv are full of people, congregating in cafés, shopping, or just being seen. However, on Sunday, April 14, my third day in Israel, ordinary unfolded into extraordinary. By 7 p.m., a stillness overcame the streets of this cosmopolitan city. At 7:55 p.m., the city’s main square, named Kikar Rabin for Israel’s assassinated prime minister, filled with thousands of people, seating themselves on folded … 0

Sarah Rossmassler: Recalling Bobbie MacLeod’s way with trees, and life

Sunday, May 19, 2013

HATFIELD — Spring is in full swing, and this year, I watch the trees bud and flower remembering a true friend of trees with great affection. Barbara “Bobbie” MacLeod died this year; she was a longtime resident of the Valley who carried on a family tradition of planting trees in this area. Bobbie and I met about three years ago when I needed … 0

Marietta Pritchard: Report from the Class of 1958

Friday, May 17, 2013

AMHERST — It’s the season of commencements and reunions, and although I won’t be attending my 55th, I have been scanning my class reunion book with fascination. It is a fat red book, with two sets of entries — Radcliffe College on one cover, and then upside down (or rightside up, if you prefer) on the other cover, Harvard College, both of them … 0

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