Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Some students complain about too much homework. Brattleboro Union High School junior Lucia Morey, in contrast, arrived before the start of classes on Feb. 17 to take on another assignment: leading a protest against new U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “As passionate and united members of the school community,” Morey told a crowd of more than 100 students and staffers, “we are coming together and saying that we will not accept the decisions being made by our secretary of education,
The Julian Gerstin Sextet performs original jazz inspired by melodies and rhythms of the Caribbean and Balkans. The ensemble will release the group's new CD, The Old City, at a house concert at Wendy Redlinger's home at 2596 Tater Lane, on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m. The CD celebrates the world's crossroads cities, where immigrants and longtime residents mingle their musical traditions and new sounds emerge. Listeners will hear cumbia from Bogota, danzón from Havana, mambo from New York,
I inherited a violin and music (“Estrellita - Mexican Serenade”) from my great-uncle Russel Hayes in Pennsylvania, a fiddler who I knew only when I was a baby. My father, Paul August Andreas Schulz, taught us many old two-part German songs in Gräfelfing, near Munich. We sang on all our hikes “Wach Nachtigall” and “Meins Herzens Schöne.” We sang rounds: “Sitzt a kloans Vogerl,” “Es Tönen die Lieder,” “Rosenstock, Holder,” “Dat Du Meen Levter Bist.” My mother, Ellen Russel Hayes,
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