TO WOODSTOCK AND WHEREVER… A CATSKILL RIDE By Warren Jorgensen Ah, the best laid plans of mice and men, etc, etc…this ride began as a mid-week brainstorm. I would leave first thing Saturday morning, hit the thruway to the mountains, pick up 23A across through Hunter, cross over to the west side of the forest […]
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"All slang is addictive." – Rollo May Did you see the cloud over Mount Tremper resembling Oliver Wendell Holmes with an elephant trunk last Tuesday? Bumper sticker: IT TAKES A CHILD TO RAZE A VILLAGE A Letter Dear Sparrow: I’m sure you’re following the High Street nomenclature debacle, in Phoenicia. For many years, the succinct […]
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"Fiction isn’t lies. Fiction is fibs."– Edna Ferber Bumper sticker: My iPhone Is InLove With Your iPod Did you see the cloud shaped like a freckled egg over Fox Hollow last Tuesday? Ask Sparrow "Ask Sparrow," as you may know, is a regular feature of this column, where indecisive persons submit their dilemmas for […]
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"If you meet the Buddha on the road, ask him for his autograph."– Angelina Jolie My friends are listening to the palindromic jam band Gem Tune Nutmeg. A Letter After years of living in the Catskills, one learns to hear fog. It sounds like a distant bassoon. R. T. Superintendent Search? This copied from a […]