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A little Mozart

As I scrambled into the kitchen and furiously scrubbed the sink, I heard the opening notes to the third movement of Mozart’s Sonata No. 11,

Living in a landmark

The Corn Hill Holiday Tour of Homes has been a cherished Rochester tradition for thirty-seven years. This year, on Saturday, December 7, the Corn Hill

Singing loud, singing proud

When he helped start the Rochester Gay Men’s Chorus (RGMC) in 1982, David Knoll wanted to foster not just a chorus but a community.  Inspired

A nineteenth-century activist

I discovered Frances Willard while researching drinking fountains erected by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) throughout Western New York in the late nineteenth and

All that jazz

In her 2019 autobiography No Walls and the Recurring Dream, singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco recalls a story from 1990 about David Tipton, a poet friend from

What makes us special

For more than one million people, greater Rochester is home. A foreign exchange student recently asked me what our city is known for. Certainly, we

We grow writers

If you are a regular reader of this column, you know there is a bounty of homegrown writers in the Rochester area. Not only do

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A little Mozart

As I scrambled into the kitchen and furiously scrubbed the sink, I heard the opening notes to the third movement of Mozart’s Sonata No. 11,

Living in a landmark

The Corn Hill Holiday Tour of Homes has been a cherished Rochester tradition for thirty-seven years. This year, on Saturday, December 7, the Corn Hill

Singing loud, singing proud

When he helped start the Rochester Gay Men’s Chorus (RGMC) in 1982, David Knoll wanted to foster not just a chorus but a community.  Inspired

A nineteenth-century activist

I discovered Frances Willard while researching drinking fountains erected by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) throughout Western New York in the late nineteenth and

All that jazz

In her 2019 autobiography No Walls and the Recurring Dream, singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco recalls a story from 1990 about David Tipton, a poet friend from

What makes us special

For more than one million people, greater Rochester is home. A foreign exchange student recently asked me what our city is known for. Certainly, we

We grow writers

If you are a regular reader of this column, you know there is a bounty of homegrown writers in the Rochester area. Not only do

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