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Tag Archives: The Beatles
Finding some direction
My high school piano teacher would often become exasperated with me, and not just for the usual reasons that go along with being an exasperating teenage smart ass (me, not my piano teacher). She would become exasperated when I couldn’t … Continue reading
The Haskell and The Beatles: In Search of a Meeting That Never Happened
In preparation for my play, All Together Now, based on the local legend that the former Beatles almost met at the Haskell Free Library, I’m sharing an article I researched and published in the Stanstead Historical Society Journal in 2017. … Continue reading
Posted in It Really Did Happen!
Tagged border, Borderline Players, Derby Line, Haskell Free Library, Quebec, Stanstead border, The Beatles, Vermont
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Why Don’t We Review It in the Road?
“[The Beatles’ White Album] might be called the greatest record ever made […] a top-to-bottom reinvention of the band as pure abstraction, the two discs, like stone tablets, delivering a new order.” – “The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White … Continue reading
Beatles on the Border
“Legend has it that back in the day the Beatles used to meet [at the Haskell Free Library on the Quebec/Vermont border]. John was banned from the US so he would enter the library from the Canadian side with George, … Continue reading
Commencement address for the mid-forties set
Friends, guests, those of you who remember “Pong” and feel greater nostalgia for Wings than The Beatles, welcome. Welcome to the first day of the rest of your midlife. Webster’s Dictionary defines “midlife” as “something something the middle of life … Continue reading
Posted in Reading? Ugh!
Tagged Commencement, commencement cliches, Gandhi, middle age, midlife, Mother Teresa, Night Ranger, Pong, Robert Frost, The Beatles, Wings
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Drinking Tips for Teens 