Dean Temple will be speaking at the Dutchess County Arts Council event Blogs, VLogs, and Podcasts: An overview of the latest in web-based marketing and promotion. The event takes place at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center from 8:30 am – 9:30 am. Other speakers will include Hudson Valley Events Vlog producer Thomas Henry, and technology expert [...]
The Haunted Palace In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace– Radiant palace–reared its head. In the monarch Thought’s dominion– It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow, (This–all this–was in [...]
In honor of both the upcoming Halloween holiday and the Hudson Valley, the reading for the October 20, 2005, podcast was the opening paragraphs of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving was a wonderful writer, and the story is much, much better than anything you have seen on tv or in the movies. You can [...]
the song of mehitabel this is the song of mehitabel of mehitabel the alley cat as i wrote you before boss mehitabel is a believer in the pythagorean theory of the transmigration of the soul and she claims that formerly her spirit was incarnated in the body of cleopatra that was a long time ago [...]
Queen of Cheese We have seen thee, Queen of cheese, Laying quietly at your ease, Gently fanned by evening breeze, Thy fair form no flies dare seize. All gaily dressed soon you’ll go To the great Provincial Show, To be admired by many a beau In the city of Toronto. Cows numerous as a swarm [...]
Excerpts from the Antiche Lettere Di Vino Letters by Ser Lapo Mazzei of the great Fonterutoli winery in Tuscany – the first person on record to have trafficked in Chianti wine. I. To Postoia Florence, October 21st, 1390 ;Therefore, having spoken of the soul (even though it was not that appropriate), I shall now speak [...]
Written and published by Albert Stevens Crockett, historian of the Waldorf-Astoria in 1935 III. Baptismal The visitor to a speakeasy, during the recent Period of Stress, may have lacked nothing in abundance of supply; but he was confronted by decided circumscription in variety. Had one who knew breathed to dispensers of dreadful drinks that masked [...]
The Wild Ride I HEAR in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses, All day, on the road, the hoofs of invisible horses, All night, from their stalls, the importunate pawing and neighing. Let cowards and laggards fall back! But alert to the saddle Weatherworn and abreast, go men of our galloping legion, With [...]
SIGNAL LOST COCKATIEL cried the sign, hand lettered, taped to the side of a building: last seen on 16th between Fifth and Sixth, gray body, orange cheek patches, yellow head. Name: Omar. Somebody’s dear, I guess , though how do you lose a cockatiel on 16th Street? Flown from a ledge, into the sky he’s [...]
They Asked Me To Do a Reading About the Sea (as written and read by Keith Torgan) They asked me to do a reading about the sea “The sea?†I asked. “The sea†they said Well I’ve always loved the sea When I was small My father took me to the sea And threw me [...]