My life-long amateur studies of the natural world, particularly birds and plants, with a special affinity for ferns, have convinced me of the validity of evolution. So, in my predictably quirky way of explaining away my wealth of eccentricities, my sense is that as one ages—evolves, that is—getting to chores in a timely way is not as necessary as it used to be.…
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The Glimmerglass Festival officially opened its 2026 season this past weekend with one of the most memorable opening nights in recent memory—hard to imagine, given the success of last season’s 50th anniversary celebrations!…
A cannon blast announced the beginning of the run. It would take a while for the bulls to make their way through the narrow street to the arena. I said goodbye to Nicole and climbed over the fence. At first the braver men stood pat, waiting for the sight of horns.…
Heart rate variability, or HRV, is the difference in time between heartbeats. Although we might assume our hearts beat steadily like a metronome, they don’t. The subtle “chaos” in timing gives us clues as to how well our autonomic nervous system is working.…
A public school district should not operate through intimidation. No one should ever have to fear retaliation just for demanding accountability for how their tax dollars are spent.…
...the United States gained its independence only after eight years of fighting from 1775 to 1783. Our independence was won not by parchment signed by colonial delegates to the Second Continental Congress, but by the soldiers of the Continental Army.…
Fenimore Chamber Orchestra has gone beyond the dream state to become an orchestra with which to reckon and has woven itself into the fabric of Cooperstown cultural life as well as that of the surrounding areas.…
160 YEARS AGO: Concert—A concert of vocal and instrumental music will be given by Les Brimmer’s band of Minstrels at Bowne Hall, on Saturday evening next. Those who like good music and would “laugh and grow fat,” will of course be on hand. The leader is known as the great Banjo player of the country; his company comprises five performers.…
90 YEARS AGO: Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the Townsend Old Age Pension plan, assailed the Roosevelt administration’s “crazy orgy of spending” and told the second annual Townsend Plan convention that his movement has the support of other groups who seek a new era of “social justice.”…
Not all of the colonists’ grievances against the King of England are relevant to Mr. Trump’s policies, but below are enough to make me very concerned about the state of this country.…
