Double the Beats
Hello February! After making it through a chaotic January, last year is looking ever better upon reflection. I had the honor of writing an Arts Beat column for the new Peaks Island News. I’d contributed regularly for almost a dozen years to the former Island Times with an Arts Roaming column, but the last issue was published in 2012. Leave it to a Rock only a mile long by a mile and a half wide to generate fresh local journalism in these turbulent times. The Peaks Island News is for, by, and about islanders, because our community of folks has much to report. You can pick one up at...
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I’m on pins and needles right now. This election is beyond nerve-wracking. So, here’s my report on the road trip from which we returned a week ago. Our trip was less about destination and more about friends we haven’t seen in too long. Does it feel like our friendships withered during the pandemic? With me turning 66 last month, my rabbit illustration on the first of October made use of my Batman pencil case as a vehicle for adventures on Route 66. We had first planned to connect with folks on both coasts, but realized that plan was not realistic. And yet a certain urgency...
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Before the pandemic struck in March, our daughter, Daisy Braun, was living in Pittsburgh, working at the Children’s Museum in the Art Studio. She’d been invited by SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine to be part of an event on First Friday in April. But Covid-19 had other plans. Fast forward to June, when Daisy returned to Peaks Island after being furloughed for three months. Her proposal to install sculptures in SPACE’S window gallery on Congress Street was approved! She visited the gallery in late July to check out the space, where posters by Martha Rich were on display....
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